A third cousin of King Charles I, he was a Privy Councillor and a key member of the Royalist party in the English Civil War.

He spent five months in exile in 1643, returning to England to defend the city of Oxford for the king.

[2] However he died childless a year later when all his titles (excepting those inherited from his father, namely Duke and Earl of Lennox) became extinct.

[3] The title Duke of Richmond was re-created in 1641[2] by King Charles I for Ludovic's nephew and eventual heir James Stewart, 4th Duke of Lennox, who was also granted Cobham Hall and the manor of Cobham, Kent, which became his main residence.

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