If not for one tectonic plate creeping slowly beneath another over the course of many millennia, forming a deeply-rippled land mass, and one prominent volcanic plug remaining 60m above sea level at Dundonald in Ayrshire, it could well be that the Stewart dynasty might never have come about.
The known origins of the Stewarts lie in the 11th century, when Alan Fitz Flaald was the dapifer, or steward, at the cathedral at Dôlde-Bretagne in Brittany.Within this historic city, there is a plaque that proudly announces: Dol-de- Bretagne. Birthplace of the Noble House of Stewart Kings and Queens of Scotland from 1371 to 1714 - telling its own tantalising story, one which contributes a significant part in the shaping of Scotland’s story.
When Alan Fitz Flaald died around 1077, the position of steward passed to his brother, Flaald, whose style rule at the borderlands with Wales under Henry I of England.
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