Person Sheet


Name David I (later King of Scotland), 27G Uncle
Birth abt 1080229
Death 24 May 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland229
Burial Dunfermline
Father King of Scotland, *Malcolm III Caennmor (~1033-1093)
Mother *(Saint) Margaret THE AETHELING (1045-1093)
Spouses:
Unmarried
Notes for David I (later King of Scotland)
David I (1124-53)
Born about 1080, David was the sixth and youngest son of Malcolm III and St Margaret. He spent his youth at the Court of his brother-in-law Henry I of England and in about 1113-14 married Matilda, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and widow of Simon de Senlis. As a result of the marriage, he held the Earldom of Northampton and the Honour of Huntingdon, with a legitimate claim to a large part of England.
David succeeded his brother Alexander as King of Scots in 1124. He was by then in his mid-40s, and was famous for his piety. Indeed, he was later criticised as being 'a sair sanct for the croun' [too pious to make a successful monarch] but in fact his generosity to the Church and his foundation of many abbeys including Holyrood, Melrose and Dryburgh, and sees such as Caithness, Dunblane and Aberdeen, had sound practical reasons too. The monks improved the country's economy by engaging in sheep farming, coal working and salt making.

For more info. on him, go to http://www.royal.gov.uk/history/scotland/malcolm.htm .
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