David I
King of Scotland
Dabíd mac Maíl Coluim

1084-May 24, 1153

Father: King Malcolm III of Scotland (1031-November 13, 1093)
Mother: Saint Margaret (c.1045-November 16, 1093)

Wife: Matilda (Maud) HUNTINGDON (c.1072-April 23, 1130)

Children:
David MACDAVID (c.1100-?)
Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of HUNTINGDON (1114-June 12, 1152)
Prince Malcolm (c.1114-?)
Princess Claricia (c.1116-c.1135)
Princess Hodierna (c.1117-c.1140)
Pedigree: 
                             Duncan I of Scotland
|Malcolm III of Scotland|
|                           |____________________  
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|--David of Scotland
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|                            Edward OUTREMER
|Saint Margaret  |
                            |Agatha
Colleen Keenan's 25th great-grandfather
NOTE: On the death of Edgar, King of Scotland, in 1107, the territories of the Scottish crown were divided in accordance with the terms of his will between his two brothers, Alexander and David. Alexander, together with the crown, received Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde, David the southern district with the title of earl of Cumbria. The death of Alexander in 1124 gave David possession of the whole starting on April 27 of that year.
In 1127, in the character of an English baron, he swore fealty to (Empress) Matilda as heiress to her father Henry I, and when the usurper Stephen ousted her in 1135 David vindicated her cause in arms and invaded England. But Stephen marched north with a great army, whereupon David made peace. The peace, however, was not kept. After threatening an invasion in 1137, David marched into England in 1138, but sustained a crushing defeat on Cutton Moor in the engagement known as the Battle of the Standard.
He returned to Carlisle, and soon afterwards concluded peace. In 1141 he joined Matilda in London and accompanied her to Winchester, but after a narrow escape from capture he returned to Scotland. Henceforth he remained in his own kingdom and devoted himself to its political and ecclesiastical reorganization. A devoted son of the church, he founded five bishoprics and many monasteries. In secular politics he energetically forwarded the process of feudalization and anglicisation which his immediate predecessors had initiated. He died at Carlisle.
SOURCE: en.wikipedia.org

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