David of Scotland (1152 – 17 June 1219) was a
Scottish prince
A prince is a male ruler (ranked below a king, grand prince, and grand duke) or a male member of a monarch's or former monarch's family. ''Prince'' is also a title of nobility (often highest), often hereditary, in some European states. The ...
and
Earl of Huntingdon. He was the grandson of
David I and the younger brother of two Scottish kings,
Malcolm the Maiden and
William the Lion
William the Lion (), sometimes styled William I (; ) and also known by the nickname ; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Alba from 1165 to 1214. His almost 49 ...
.
Life
Born in 1152, David was the youngest surviving son of
Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and
Ada de Warenne, a daughter of
William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and
Elizabeth of Vermandois. His paternal grandfather was
David I of Scotland
David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (Scottish Gaelic, Modern Gaelic: ''Daibhidh I mac haoilChaluim''; – 24 May 1153) was a 12th century ruler and saint who was David I as Prince of the Cumbrians, Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 112 ...
.
Huntingdon
Huntingdon is a market town in the Huntingdonshire district of Cambridgeshire, England. The town was given its town charter by John, King of England, King John in 1205. It was the county town of the historic county of Huntingdonshire. Oliver C ...
was granted to him after his elder brother
William I of Scotland ascended the throne. David's son
John succeeded him to the earldom.
In 1190 his brother gave him 'superiority' over
Dundee
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and its port. The same year he endowed
Lindores Abbey in
Fife
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and
a church dedicated to St Mary in Dundee.
In the
litigation for succession to the crown of Scotland in 1290–1292, the great-great-grandson
Floris V, Count of Holland of David's sister, Ada, claimed that David had renounced his
hereditary rights to the
throne of Scotland. He therefore declared that his claim to the throne had priority over David's descendants. However, no explanation or firm evidence for the supposed renunciation could be provided.
Marriage and issue
On 26 August 1190, David married
Matilda of Chester (1171 – 6 January 1233), daughter of
Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester, and wife Bertrade de Montfort. He was almost twenty years Matilda's senior. The marriage was recorded by
Benedict of Peterborough.
David and Matilda had:
1.
Margaret of Huntingdon (c. 1194 – c. 1228), married
Alan, Lord of Galloway, by whom she had two daughters, including
Dervorguilla of Galloway.
2. Robert of Huntingdon (died young)
3. Ada of Huntingdon, married Sir
Henry de Hastings, by whom she had one son,
Henry de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings.
4. Matilda (Maud) of Huntingdon (-aft.1219, unmarried)
5.
Isobel of Huntingdon (1199–1251), married firstly, Henry de Percy and had issue and secondly,
Robert Bruce, 4th Lord of Annandale, by whom she had two sons, including
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale.
6.
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (1207 – 6 June 1237), married
Elen ferch Llywelyn. He succeeded his uncle
Ranulf as
Earl of Chester in 1232, but died childless.
7. Henry of Huntingdon (died young)
Earl David also had three illegitimate children:
Balfour Paul, vol i, p 4
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# Henry of Stirling
# Henry of Brechin
#Ada, married Malise, son of Ferchar, Earl of Strathearn
After the extinction of the senior line of the Scottish royal house in 1290, when the legitimate line of William the Lion
William the Lion (), sometimes styled William I (; ) and also known by the nickname ; e.g. Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1214.6; Annals of Loch Cé, s.a. 1213.10. ( 1142 – 4 December 1214), reigned as King of Alba from 1165 to 1214. His almost 49 ...
of Scotland ended, David's descendants were the prime candidates for the throne. The two most notable claimants to the throne, Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (grandfather of King Robert I of Scotland) and John Balliol were his descendants through David's daughters Isobel and Margaret, respectively.
In popular culture
Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European literature, European and Scottish literature, notably the novels ''Ivanhoe'' (18 ...
's 1825 novel '' The Talisman'' features Earl David in his capacity as a prince of Scotland as a crusader on the Third Crusade
The Third Crusade (1189–1192) was an attempt led by King Philip II of France, King Richard I of England and Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to reconquer the Holy Land following the capture of Jerusalem by the Ayyubid sultan Saladin in 1187. F ...
. For the majority of the novel, Earl David operates under an alias: Sir Kenneth of the Couchant Leopard. Earl David's adventures are highly fictionalized for this novel.
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1140s births
1219 deaths
David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
Christians of the Third Crusade
David
David (; , "beloved one") was a king of ancient Israel and Judah and the third king of the United Monarchy, according to the Hebrew Bible and Old Testament.
The Tel Dan stele, an Aramaic-inscribed stone erected by a king of Aram-Dam ...
Scottish princes
12th-century Scottish nobility
13th-century Scottish people
Place of birth missing
People associated with Dundee
Earls of Huntingdon (1065 creation)
Mormaers of Lennox