Blackhall Manor
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Blackhall Manor is a tower house in Paisley in Renfrewshire, in the western central Lowlands of Scotland. It dates to the sixteenth century, although parts may be older, and formerly belonged to the S
Blackhall Manor after restoration
Walter fitz Alan
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Walter FitzAlan was a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman baron who became a Scottish magnate and Steward of Scotland. which is where the Stewart house comes from. He was a younger son of Alan fitz Flaad and
David I, King of Scotland as he is depicted in a mid-twelfth-century royal charter
Walter's charter of Birkenside, Legerwood and Mow from Malcolm IV, King of Scotland
Ruinous Wenlock Priory. Walter appears to have been a devotee of this English Cluniac priory.
An early-twentieth-century depiction of the Siege of Lisbon in 1147. There is reason to suspect that Walter was amongst the Scots who took part in the campaign to liberate Lisbon from the Moors.