LAST week, I wrote about the 900th anniversary of the death of King Alexander I on April 23, 1124. His demise brought to King David I to the throne…
LAST week, I wrote about the 900th anniversary of the death of King Alexander I on April 23, 1124. His demise brought to King David I to the throne – the sixth and youngest son of King Malcolm III and his wife Margaret of Wessex, later Saint Margaret.
I note that the good citizens of Stirling have already begun to celebrate the 900th anniversary of their city’s incorporation as a royal burgh by none other than King David I. There’s no exact date for that anniversary, as no charter was sealed at that time by King David, and it’s more than likely that Stirling’s royal status was confirmed by oral decree from the throne.
As brother-in-law to the king, David spent a lot of time at the English court and was heavily influenced by Henry. He also met many nobles, mostly Normans, who had come from the continent to help William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry to rule England. When Alexander died, at Scone David received the homage of the nation’s nobility – he was apparently reluctant to do so as he thought it unseemly – but duly laid claim to the whole of mainland Scotland, except for pesky Galloway which remained defiantly independent. He had already established his own train of knights and clerks in anticipation of the struggles he would face when becoming king, and these started almost immediately.
The English chronicler Orderic Vitalis wrote that Máel Coluim “affected to snatch the kingdom” and in doing so waged “two sufficiently fierce battles; but David, who was loftier in understanding and in power and wealth, conquered him and his followers”.
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