King Edgar
FATHER: Malcolm III(
MOTHER: St Margaret(
SIBLINGS: (
KING EDGAR
He was born around c.1072/4. He succeeded Donald III and Edmund (joint rulers) as King of Scotland in October, 1097. There is no record of his coronation.
KING EDGAR
He died unmarried and childless on 8 January, 1107, either at Dundee, or at Edinburgh Castle, and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife.
He was succeeded by his brother Alexander.
Alexander I
FATHER: Malcolm III(
MOTHER: St Margaret(
SIBLINGS: (
ALEXANDER I
Known as ‘the Fierce’, he was born in c.1077/8. He succeeded his brother Edgar as King of Scotland on 8 January, 1107. There is no record of his coronation.
Alexander I married, in c.1107 (although no record exists as to where):
Sybilla
She was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I, King of England, by Sybilla Corbet, and she was born around c.1092 at Domfront, Normandy. She died on 12/13 July, 1122, on the Island of the Woman (Eilean ham Bam), Loch Tay, Perthshire, and was buried in a church there. There was no issue of the marriage.
Alexander I had the following illegitimate issue:
1 Malcolm MacHeth, Earl of Ross (1105/15?–1168); he married a sister of Somerled, Lord of Argyll, and had issue.
ALEXANDER I
He died on 23, 25 or 27 April, 1124, at Stirling Castle, and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife.
He was succeeded by his brother David.
David I
FATHER: Malcolm III(
MOTHER: St Margaret(
SIBLINGS: (
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: