The lands of Arthurlie were held in medieval times by the Stewart family, a branch of the noble Stewarts of Darnley.
In 1406 the authority of the Stewarts of Waldburg was renewed, when the city of Waldsee, together with the towns of Mengen, Riedlingen, Munderkingen and Saulgau, were finally sold off from the House of Habsburg.
The Stewarts who became monarchs of Scotland were descended from a family who were seneschals of Dol in Brittany, France.
His son Duncan Stewart of Ardsheal succeeded in having the lands restored later in the eighteenth century and the Stewarts of Ardsheal then succeeded to the Chiefdom of Appin upon the extinction of the Appin family.
His daughter Mary Dale married James Haldane Stewart, an Anglican clergyman related to the Stewarts of Appin.
On the lower slopes of Craignaught Hill was fought a singularly unusual battle between the Boyds of Kilmarnock and the Stewarts of Darnley.
Iain Laughland (London Scottish) operating at stand-off, tried a drop-goal after John Douglas (Stewarts College F.P.), Norman Bruce (London Scottish) and Hugh McLeod (Hawick) had rolled out of the back of a line-out.
His lineage was descended from the royal Stewarts through the ubiquitous clan of Murray.
After the return of King James the latter destroyed the power of the Albany Stewarts, executing the Albany's son and successor Murdoch Stewart, Duke of Albany.
It then passed to the Maxwells of Nether Pollok in 1648 and then the Stewarts of Blackhall in 1660.