John le Scott , Earl of Huntingdon & Chester 
John le was born about 1207 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England. John le's father was David Earl of Huntingdon and his mother was Maud of Chester. His paternal grandparents were Henry Earl of Huntingdon , Prince of Scotland and Ada de Warenne; his maternal grandparents were Hugh de Kevelioc , 5th Earl of Chester and Bertrade de Montfort. He had three sisters named Isabella, Margaret de and Ada de. He was the youngest of the four children. He had a half-brother named Henry de. He died before June 6th, 1237 in Darnhall, Northwich, Cheshire (dsp, poisoned by wife?). He was buried in St Werburgh, Chester, Cheshire, England.General Notes
on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon:
After Earl Simon's [Matilda's 1st husband] death, his Widow married David I of 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. Henry swore fealty to Stephen but subsequently fought against him under the Scottish banner, which may account for Simon de St Liz's son, another Simon, being recognized as Earl of Huntingdon before Henry's death in 1152. Thereafter the Earldom was more or less bounced back and forth between the de St Liz family and the Kings of Scotland, first being held 1157-65 by Malcolm the Maiden and (1165-74) by his brother William The Lion, King of Scots, then by a Simon de St Liz (grandson of the first Simon and son of the second) from 1174 to 1184.
When the third Simon de St Liz died in 1184 he left no surviving issue and David, younger brother of the Kings of Scots just mentioned, assumed the Earldom from 1185 (on the handing over of it to him by William the Lion) till it was taken away from him in 1215 or 1216 by King John. He got it back again in 1218, however. David's son John was the last member of the Scottish royal family to hold the title, doing so from his father's death in 1219 till his own in 1237. [Burke's Peerage]
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EARLDOM OF HUNTINGDON (X)
EARLDOM OF CHESTER (VIII, 5)
JOHN (LE Scot), EARL OF HUNTINGDON AND CAMBRIDGE (nephew of William the Lion, King of Scotland), being 3rd and youngest, but only surviving son and heir of David, EARL OF HUNTINGDON &C., by Maud, 1st sister and coheir of Ranulph (DE BLUNDEVILLE), EARL OF CHESTER, was born about 1207; succeeded his father as Earl of Huntingdon, &c., 12 June 1219, having livery of his lands 25 April 1227; was knighted by Alexander III 30 May 1227; and, after the death of the Earl of Chester, his uncle, though apparently in the lifetime of his mother (who d. Epiphany 1233), having inherited the whole County Palatine of Chester, was created, at Northampton, 21 November 1232, EARL OF CHESTER. At the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, 20 January 1235/6, he bore the " Curtatia," one of the three swords of State, as Earl of Chester, and claimed to bear the second sword as Earl of Hutitingdon. He took the Cross about 8 June 1236. He married, 1222, Helen, daughter of LLEWELLYN AP IORWERTH, PRINCE OF NORTH WALES, and by her is suspected to have been poisoned. He died s.p., at Darnall, co. Chester, very shortly before 6 June 1237, and was buried at St. Werburg's, Chester, leaving the two daughters of his eldest sister and his three surviving sisters, as his coheirs, but in 1246 the Earldom of Chester was annexed to the Crown "lest so fair (preclara) a dominion should be divided (inter colas feminarum) among women." His widow married, before 5 December 1237, Robert DE QUINCY (youngest son of Saher, Earl of Winchester), who died s.p.m., August 1257. She died 1253, before 24 October. [Complete Peerage III:169-70, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
Note: John was the last non-royal Earl of Chester, other than a brief period 1264-1265 when Simon de Montfort became Earl by coercing Henry III (a prisoner after the battle of Lewes) into giving him the title, which Prince Edward "Longshanks" had at the time. He (eventually Edward I) regained it in 1265. Usually the royal heir-apparent received the earldom about the same time that he received the title "Prince of Wales."
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- b.1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Elgin, Morayshire, Scotland (killed by Macbeth)
- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria, England (slain besieging)
- b.~ 1014 in Northumbria, England d.1040
- b.~ 1080 in Scotland d.24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland, England
- b.1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.~ 1020 in Hungary d.> 1067 in Scotland
- b.1114 in Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 0990 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1036 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in Beheaded at Winchester, Hampshire, England
- b.~ 0998 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England
- b.1072 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England d.23 Apr 1131 in Scotland
- b.~ 1022 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d.1054 in Slain-battle of Lille at Bataille de Lille, Flanders
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
- b.< 1030 in Normandy, France d.< 1090
- b.1144 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.17 Jun 1219
- b.~ 1020 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.< 1037 in Varenne near Bellencombre, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.24 Jun 1088 in Lewes, Sussex, England (from wounds at Siege of Pevensey)
- b.~ 1020 in France d.> 1074
- b.~ 1071 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.11 May 1138 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1027 in Flanders, France d.AFT 20 FEB 1070/71 in Taken prisoner at Battle of Cassel, Flanders
- b.~ 1052 in Flanders, France d.27 May 1085 in Castle Acre, Norfolk, England (in childbirth)
- b.1032 in Flanders, France d.03 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.~ 1122 in Lewes, Sussex, England d.1178 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
- b.~ 1006 in Rheims, Marne, France d.02 Aug 1060 in Vitry-aux-Loges, Brie, France
- b.1050 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in The leader of 1st Crusade died at Tarsus, Cilicie
- b.~ 1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.~ 1081 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.<Jul 1147 in Priory of Lewes, Sussex, England
- b.~ 1032 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.1080 in France
- b.~ 1050 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.23 Sep 1120 in Vermandois, Normandy, France
- b.1032 in Valois now Oise, Picardy, France d.1080
- b.~ 1207 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England d.<06 Jun 1237 in Darnhall, Northwich, Cheshire (dsp, poisoned by wife?)
- b.~ 1050 in Bayeux, Normandy, France d.>Apr 1089 in Lord of Cumberland & Carlisle, England
- b.~ 1070 in Briquessart, Livry, France d.JAN 1128/29 in Chester, Cheshire, England
- b.~ 1054 in Avranches, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1100 in Guernon Castle, Normandy, France d.16 Dec 1153 in Chester, Cheshire, England (poisoned)
- b.~ 1015 in Coventry, Warwickshire, England (Mercia) d.< 1079 in Buckinghamshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Crowland & Spalding, Lincolnshire, England d.> 1130
- b.~ 1045 in Graville, Normandy, France
- b.1147 in Kevelioc, Monmouthshire, Wales d.30 Jun 1181 in Leeke, Staffordshire, England
- b.1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in Lyons-La-Foret, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1090 in Caen, Normandy, France d.31 Oct 1147 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1073 in Deheubarth, Wales
- b.~ 1117 in Gloucestershire, England. d.29 Jul 1189
- b.~ 1050 in Cruelly, Calvados, Normandy, France d.10 MAR 1106/07 in At the battle of Falaise
- b.~ 1094 in Gloucestershire, England d.1157 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1060 in St Germain, Normandy, France
- b.1171 in Chester, Cheshire, England d.6 JAN 1232/33
- b.~ 1025 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.~ 1087
- b.~ 1070 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.1124
- b.~ 1040 in Evreux, Normandy, France
- b.1117 in Montfort-l'Amaury Castle, Ile-de-France, France d.13 MAR 1180/81 in France
- b.~ 1069 in Garlende, France d.1118
- b.~ 1090 in Garlende, France d.1181
- b.~ 1073 in Montlhery, France d. in Rochfort, France
- b.1155 in Montfort-sur-Risle, Eure, Normandy, France d.12 Jul 1227 in Evreux, Eure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1126 in Monmouth Castle, Gloucestershire, England d.~ 1164
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