David I "the Saint" KING OF SCOTLAND

Male Abt 1084 - 1153  (~ 69 years)


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  • Name David I "the Saint" KING OF SCOTLAND  [1
    Born Abt 1084  Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 24 May 1153  Carlisle, Cumbria, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5761  adkinshorton
    Last Modified 2 Jan 2013 

    Father Malcolm III of Dunkeld KING OF SCOTLAND,   b. 1031, Atholl, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Mother St. Margaret OF WESSEX,   b. Abt 1045, Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1093, Edinburg Castle, Edinburg, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Married 1068  Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F25191  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Matilda (Maud) of HUNTINGDON,   b. Abt 1072, Northumbria, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Apr 1131  (Age ~ 59 years) 
    Married 1113 
    Children 
     1. Malcom OF SCOTLAND
     2. Claricia
     3. Hodierna
    +4. Henry 9TH EARL OF HUNTINGDON, of Scotland,   d. 12 Jun 1152
    Family ID F25209  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • David I (St. David), King of Scotland from 1124 until his death May 24, 1153, was hallowed by the people but never canonized. David was a wise and just king, born probably about 1085, ascended April 25, 1124. He shared his mother's wisdom and love of civilization. He continued to found Augustinian monasteries, to strength Roman Christianity, and he much favored the Cistercians. He founded burghs of independent townsmen; and bishoprics; established the office of chancellor to issue official documents bearing the royal seal, and he made Norman feudal law apply to Scotland. His education and his favorites were English; but politically he aimed not merely at independence of the English king, but at control of the Northern shires of England. He gained control of Cumberland and Northumberland and the tyrannous William Comyn, Bishop of Durham. He became Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton and acquired a dangerous claim to Northumberland by his marriage. In 1113 he married Matilda, daughter of Waltheof, Count of Northampton and Huntingdon, Earl of Northumberland, and Judith, his wife, a niece of William the Conqueror.

      When Stephen usurped the English crown, David had a good excuse for repeated invasions on the pretext of supporting his niece, Matilda the Empress. The Archbishop of York, old Thurstan, rallied the countryside and won a victory at Northallerton over David's undisciplined hordes (1138). It was called the Battle of the Standard because the English erected in a frame the mast of a ship on which they hung the banners of St. Peter the Apostle, St. John of Beverley and St. Wilfrid of Ripon (1138). David accompanied Matilda on her flight to Winchester (1140) and it was from him his great-nephew, the future Henry II., received knighthood at the age of sixteen.

  • Sources 
    1. [S18796] The Paternal Ancestry of Homer Beers James, Vol. I.


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