The royal Stewart line was founded by Robert III...
Robert III—born John Stewart—was King of Scotland from 1390 to his death in 1406...
He was the eldest son of Robert II...
“They Lineally descended of Sir John Stewart, (commonly called the Black Stewart, from his Complexion) Son to King Robert the II ...”
SOURCE;
(George Crawford, “A Genealogical History of the Royal and Illustrious Family of the Stewarts”; 1710)
“From his dark complexion, he was known as The Black Stewart”
SOURCE;
(John MacArthur, “The Antiquities of Arran”; 1873)
COMPLEXION = the natural color, texture, and appearance of a person's SKIN especially of the FACE.
“Charles the second was, in the popular language of the day, a tall black man”
SOURCE;
(Norman Chevers, ‘An Enquiry into the circumstances of the Death of King Charles the Second’; 1861)
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