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Personal data King of Scotland David I "The Saint" 

• Alternative names: David I "The Saint" King of Scotland, David I "The Saint" King of Scotland, David Koning van Schotland I, David King of Scotland I, 'the Saint' King of Scotland David I, David King of Scotland, David I 'the Holy' of Scotland
• He was born in the year 1080 in Edinburg Castle, Midlothian, Scotland.

  Attention: Was younger than 16 years (2) when child (Gille Chlerig Gylocher,) was born (??-??-1082).

• Alternative: He was born in the year 1080 in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland.Source 5
• Alternative: He was born about 1080 in Scotland.Sources 4, 9
• Alternative: He was born about 1082.
• Alternative: He was born in the year 1084 in Scotland.
• (Ruled) in 1124-1153.
• He died on May 24, 1153 in Carlisle Castle Carlisle, Cumberland, England, he was 73 years old.
• Alternative: He died on May 24, 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England, he was 73 years old.Sources 4, 9
• Alternative: He died on May 24, 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, Engeland, he was 73 years old.Source 5
• Alternative: He died on May 24, 1153, he was 73 years old.

Household of King of Scotland David I "The Saint"

He is married to Matilda (Maud} de Huntingdon,.

They got married in the year 1112 at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, he was 32 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Gille Chlerig Gylocher,  1082-1131 
2. King Henry de Huntington,  1114-1152 
3. Princess Lettia Scotland  1119-1178

Notes about King of Scotland David I "The Saint"

David I (b. c. 1082--d. May 24, 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, Eng.), one of the most powerful Scottish kings (reigned from 1124). He admitted into Scotland an Anglo-French (Norman) aristocracy that played a major part in the later history of the kingdom. He also reorganized Scottish Christianity to conform with continental European and English usages and founded many religious communities, mostly for Cistercian monks and Augustinian canons.he court of his brother-in-law King Henry I of England. Through David's marriage (1113) to a daughter of Waltheof, earl of Northumbria, he acquired the English earldom of Huntingdon and obtained much land in that county and in Northamptonshire. With Anglo-Norman help, David secured from his brother Alexander I, king of Scots from 1107, the right to rule Cumbria, Strathclyde, and part of Lothian. In April 1124, on the death of Alexander, David became king of Scots.t for her against King Stephen (crowned as Henry's successor in December 1135), hoping thereby to gain Northumberland for himself. A brief peace made with Stephen in 1136 resulted in the cession of Cumberland to David and the transfer of Huntingdon to his son Earl Henry. David, however, continued to switch sides. While fighting for Matilda again, he was defeated in the Battle of the Standard, near Northallerton, Yorkshire (Aug. 22, 1138). He then made peace once more with Stephen, who in 1139 granted Northumberland (as an English fief) to Earl Henry. In 1141 David reentered the war on Matilda's behalf, and in 1149 he knighted her son Henry Plantagenet (afterward King Henry II of England), who acknowledged David's right to Northumberland.l administration, issued the first Scottish royal coinage, and built or rebuilt the castles around which grew the first Scottish burghs: Edinburgh, Stirling, Berwick, Roxburgh, and perhaps Perth. As ruler of Cumbria he had taken Anglo-Normans into his service, and during his kingship many others settled in Scotland, founding important families and intermarrying with the older Scottish aristocracy. Bruce, Stewart, Comyn, and Oliphant are among the noted names whose bearers went from northern France to England during the Norman Conquest in 1066 and then to Scotland in the reign of David I. To these and other French-speaking immigrants, David granted land in return for specified military service or contributions of money, as had been done in England from the time of the Conquest. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]rl's widow, the Countess Maud, under the especial sanction of King Henry I. This nobleman succeeded to the Scottish throne on the decease of Alexander, his elder brother, in 1124, and, invading England, was met upon the border by King Stephen, when their differences were amicable adjusted. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 468, St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon]f Scotland, who consequently became Earl of Huntingdon too, keeping the Earldom even after he succeeded his brother as King of Scots. He sided with the Empress Maud against Stephen I but came to terms with the latter and made the Earldom over to his son Henry. [Burke's Peerage]eputed as a Saint, his feast day is 24th May. [Brian Tompsett, Directory of Royal Genealogical Data - http://www.dcs.hull.oc.uk/public/royal]

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