Read Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy Online

Authors: Alison Weir

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Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (55 page)

DAVID I

He was born around 1080/85, and was designated Prince of Cumbria in 1107. He was styled Earl of Huntingdon in right of his wife, and possibly also Earl of Northampton from
c.
1113/14. He succeeded his brother Alexander I as King of Scotland on 23, 25 or 27 April, 1124. There is no record of his coronation.

David I married
, in 1113/14 (although no record exists as to where):

Matilda

She was the daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, by Judith, daughter of Lambert of Boulogne, Count of Lens, by Adeliza, sister of William I, King of England, and she was born in
c.
1074. She married firstly Simon de St Liz, Earl of
Huntingdon and Northampton (
d
. after 1111), in
c
.1090, and had issue:

1 Simon, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton (after 1103–1153); he married Isabella, daughter of Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, and had issue.

2 St Waltheof, Abbot of Melrose (
c
.1100–1159/60).

3 Matilda (
d
.1140); she married Robert FitzRichard (
d
.1134), and had issue.

Matilda died between 23 April, 1130, and 22 April, 1131 (although she appears in a charter of 1147, now thought to be spurious), and was buried in Scone Abbey, Perthshire.

Issue of marriage:

1
Malcolm

Probably the firstborn. He died young. He is said to have been strangled in infancy by Donald III, although this is chronologically impossible, as Donald died in 1099, and Malcolm was not born until 1113 or later.

2
Henry

He was born in
c
.1114/15, and succeeded to the earldom of Huntingdon upon his father’s resignation in
c.
February, 1136. He was created Earl of Northumberland in 1139. He died on 12 June, 1152, and was buried in Kelso Abbey, Roxburghshire.

Henry had the following
illegitimate issue
:

1 Margaret or Marjorie; she married John de Lindsay, and had issue.

Henry married, in 1139 (although no record exists as to where):

Ada

Also called Adama or Adeline, she was the daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, by Isabella, daughter of Hugh, Count of Vermandois. She died in 1178.

Issue of marriage:

(i)	Malcolm IV ( see here ).
(ii)	King William the Lyon ( see here ).
(iii)	David
He was born in c .1143/52. He succeeded his father as Earl of Huntingdon, Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Carlisle and Earl of Doncaster on 12 June, 1152 (his succession being confirmed in 1185). He was created Earl of Garioch in c .1180, and Earl of Cambridge and Earl of Lennox in 1205. He was deprived of all his English honours in 1215/16, but restored to them on 13 March, 1218. He died on 17 June, 1219, at Yardley, Northants., and was buried in Sawtrey Abbey, Hunts.
David had the following illegitimate issue :
1 Henry of Stirling.
2 Henry of Brechin ( d .1238); he married Juliana, probably the daughter of Ralph de Cornhill, and had issue.
3 Ada; she married Malise, son of Ferteth, Earl of Strathearn.
4 David (?).
David married, on 26 August, 1190 (although no record exists as to where):
Matilda
She was the daughter of Hugh de Kevilloc, Earl of Chester, by Bertrada, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count of Evreux, and she was born in 1171. She died on 6 January, 1233.
Issue of marriage:

(a)	Robert
He died young, and was buried in Lindores Abbey, Fife.
(b)	Isabella
She was born in 1206, and was known as ‘Isabella the Scot’.
She married Robert le Brus, ‘the Noble’, Lord of Annandale ( d .1245), and had issue:
1 Robert, Lord of Annandale, a Competitor for the Crown of Scotland in 1292 (1220–1295); he married firstly Isabella (1226–1254), daughter of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester, and secondly Christina ( d.c .1305), daughter of Sir William de Ireby, by whom he had issue:
Robert le Brus ( see here , under Robert I ).
2 Beatrice; she married Hugh de Neville.
Isabella died in c. 1251, and was buried in Saltre Abbey, near Stilton, Gloucs.
(c)	John
Known as ‘the Scot’, he was born in c .1207, and succeeded his father as Earl of Huntingdon and Garioch on 17 June, 1219. He was created Earl of Chester on 21 November, 1232. He died shortly before 6 June, 1237, at Darnal, and was buried in the Church of St Werburg, Chester.
John married, in c. 1220/22 (although no record exists as to where):
Helen
She was the daughter of Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of Wales, by Joan, illegitimate daughter of John, King of England. After the death of John the Scot, she married secondly Robert de Quincy ( d. 1257) in 1237, and had issue:
1 Hawise (1250?–1295?); she married Baldwin Wake ( d .1282), and had issue.
2 Joan ( d. 1283); she married Humphrey de Bohun ( d. 1265).
Helen died in 1253.
(d)	Henry
He died young after 1215, and was buried in Lindores Abbey, Fife.
(e)	Ada
She married Henry de Hastings ( d .1250?) before 7 June, 1237, and had issue:
1 Henry, 1st Baron Hastings ( d .1269); he married Joan de Cantelou ( d .1271), and had issue.
Ada died after 1241.
(f)	Margaret
She married Alan, Lord of Galloway ( d .1234), in 1209, and had issue:
1 Devorguilla ( see here , under King John Balliol).
2 Christina ( d .1246); she married William de Forz, 5th Earl of Aumale ( d .1241).
Margaret died in 1228.
(g)	Matilda
She died unmarried.

(iv)	Ada
She was born after 1139. She married Florence III, Count of Holland ( d.c. 1191), in 1162, and had issue:
1 Florence IV, Count of Holland, and Competitor for the Crown of Scotland in 1192 (murdered 1206?).
Ada died after 1206.
(v)	Margaret
She married firstly Conan IV, Duke of Brittany ( d .1171), in 1159/60, and had issue:
1 Constance, Duchess of Brittany ( see here , under Henry II of England).
Margaret married secondly Humphrey de Bohun ( d .1182) before Easter, 1175, and had issue:
2 Henry, 1st Earl of Hereford (1176?–1220); he married Matilda ( d .1236), daughter of Geoffrey FitzPiers, Earl of Essex, and had issue.
(vi)	Isabella
She married Robert, Baron Ros of Wark ( d .1174), and had issue, but no details are recorded.
(vii)	Matilda
She died young in 1152.
(viii)	Marjorie (?)
She is said to have been Earl Henry’s daughter by his wife Ada, but is now thought to have been more probably the daughter of one of the bastard sons of David, Earl of Huntingdon ( above), both of whom were called Henry. In 1291, Robert de Pinkeney, one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland, claimed to be her great-grandson, but there is no contemporary evidence for her parentage. She is said to have married Sir David de Lindsay, Lord of Luffness ( d.c .1214), and to have had issue:
1 David, a knight ( d .1241); he married a lady called Christina.
2 Gerard, a knight ( d .1249).
3 Walter; he is said to have married Christina Huse, and to have had issue.
4 William.
5 Alice; she married Sir Henry de Pinkeney, Lord of Wedon-Pinkeney, and had issue.

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