Bernard Stewart, 4th Lord of Aubigny (1452-15 June 1508), also known as Berault d'Aubigny, was a Scottish soldier in the service of France during the Italian Wars.
Biography[]
Bernard Stewart was the grandson of John Stewart of Darnley, who was given the lands of Aubigny-sur-Nere and Concressault by King Charles VII of France for his service during the Hundred Years' War. Bernard was chosen to command the royal bodyguard like his grandfather before him, and he renewed the alliance between France and Scotland in 1484. In 1485, he commanded the French troops sent to assist the House of Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth Field during the Wars of the Roses, and he later took part in King Charles VIII of France's 1494-98 invasion of Italy. He became Governor of Calabria and Lieutenant-General of the French Army during this campaign, and he was sent to fight off the Spanish invasion of southern Italy in 1495. At Seminara, d'Aubigny defeated the Spanish army of Ferdinand II of Naples and Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba. In 1499, Stewart took part in King Louis XII of France's invasion of Italy, becoming Governor of Milan in Lombardy. In 1501, he conquered Naples and was made governor, but his army was destroyed in another battle at Seminara in 1503, and he was imprisoned at the Castel Nuovo until the war's end. In 1508, he became ambassador of France to Scotland, and he died in Corstorphine, Scotland that same year.