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Tradition accounts for the migration of the Stark name from Germany to Scotland, in 1495; when the duchess of Burgundy, widow of Charles the Bold, sent a large body of German soldiers under General Martin Swart, to join the invasion of England in support of the claim of one of the Pretenders to the throne of Henry VIIth. The invaders were defeated on the plain of Stoke, and those who survived fled to Scotland and were protected by the Scottish King. Among the German soldiery were men named Stark, who remained in Scotland after this disastrous campaign and are supposed to be the ancestry from which our family descended.