2-411: The Hostarius (alternatively, Usher , Doorward or Durward ) was an office in medieval Scotland whose holders, eventually hereditary, had the theoretical responsibility of being warden of the king's door: protecting the king's property. This is a list of hostarii . The family of "Durward" (a later name for hostarius ) may have held the office hereditarily after Thomas of Lundie, and certainly kept
4-614: The title as a surname (in Norman French , l'Ussier ("the Usher"); in English , Durward ) The office was no longer hereditary by the second half of the 13th century, and indeed, by then, there were many hostarii . Unlike many other hereditary royal office holders, the "Durward" family were not of Anglo-Norman or French origin but native Gaelic origin. It was a sept of the native comital dynasty of Mar . This biography of
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