William I "The Lion" 
William I "The was born in 1143 in Dunfermline, Scotland. William I "The's father was Henry Canmore and his mother was Adeline de Warenne. His paternal grandparents were David I 'the Saint' and Matilda Maud De Huntington; his maternal grandparents were William de Warenne and Elizabeth (Isabel) Capet. He had two brothers and four sisters, named David, IV, Princess of Scotland, Princess of Scotland, Margaret and Marjory Canmore. He had a half-sister named Aufrica. He died at the age of 71 on December 4th, 1214 in Stirling, Scotland.General Notes
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King of Scotland from 1165 to 1214; although he submitted to English overlordship for 15 years (1174-89) of his reign, he ultimately obtained independence for his kingdom. William was the second son of the Scottish Henry, Earl of Northumberland, whose title he inherited in 1152. He was forced, however, to relinquish this earldom to King Henry II of England (reigned 1154-89) in 1157. Succeeding
to the throne of his elder brother, King Malcolm IV, in 1165, William joined a revolt of Henry's sons (1173) in an attempt to regain Northumberland. He was captured near Alnwick, Northumberland, in 1174 and released after agreeing to recognize the overlordship of the king of England and the supremacy of the English church over the Scottish church.
Upon Henry's death in 1189, William obtained release from his feudal subjection by paying a large sum of money to England's new king, Richard I (reigned 1189-99). In addition, although William had quarreled bitterly with the papacy over a church appointment, Pope Celestine III ruled in 1192 that the Scottish church owed obedience only to Rome, not to England. During the reign of King John in England, relations between England and Scotland deteriorated over the issue of Northumberland until finally, in 1209, John forced William to renounce his claims. In his effort to consolidate his authority throughout Scotland, William developed a small but efficient central administrative bureaucracy. He chartered many of the major burghs of modern Scotland and in 1178 founded Arbroath Abbey, which had become probably the wealthiest monastery in Scotland by the time of his death. William was succeeded by his son Alexander II.
(source: www.scotlandroyalty.org)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0975 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in battle of Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1001 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Bothganowan, Elgin
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1043 in Slain
- b.~ 1031 in Dunfermline, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Scotland
- b.~ 1014 in Northumberland, England d.1040
- b.~ 1084 in Dunfermline, Scotland d.1153
- b.0989 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, England
- b.~ 0992 d.1075
- b.1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1008 in Derlingo, Westfriesland d.23 Apr 1038
- b.~ 1020 in Braunschweig, East Friesland, Holy Roman Empire d.13 Jul 1054
- b.~ 1004 in Nordgau Region, Medieval States d.21 Jul 1077
- b.~ 1114 in Dunfermline, Scotland d.12 Jun 1152 in Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotland
- b.~ 1021 in Denmark d.1049
- b.~ 1020 in Denmark d.1055 in York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1046 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in Crowland, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 0994 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England d.~ 1039
- b.~ 1031 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England
- b.1072 in Huntingdon, England d.23 APR 113 in Scone, Perth, Scotland
- b.~ 1004 in Boulogne, Lorraine, France d.1049
- b.~ 1020 in Boulogne, Flandres d.1054 in Bataille De Lille, Flandres
- b.~ 0984 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.1029 in Normandy, France d.< 1090
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.~ 1050
- b.1143 in Dunfermline, Scotland d.04 Dec 1214 in Stirling, Scotland
- b.~ 0955
- b.~ 0998 in Warenne, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0955 in Crêpon, Normandy, France
- b.1044 in Warenne, Normandy, France d.24 Jun 1089 in Surrey, England
- b.~ 0970 in Rouen, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1020 in Vascoeuil, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0975 in Longueville, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1078 in Surrey, England d.11 May 1138
- b.~ 1008 in Normandy, France d.22 Jul 1035 in Nicea, Bithynia, Turkey
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise Castle, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermentrube, Near Rouen, France
- b.1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.~ 1050
- b.~ 1055 in Falaise Castle, Normandy, France
- b.1012 in Flanders, Belgium d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandy
- b.1009 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.8 JAN 1078/79 in Monastaere de l'Order de St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.~ 1120 in Huntington, Huntingdon, England d.1178 in Warwickshire, England
- b.27 MAR 971 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun, France
- b.Apr 1008 in Burgundy, France d.04 Aug 1060 in Vitry-en-Brie, France
- b.0973 in Arles, Tolouse, France d.25 Jul 1032
- b.1057 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.18 Oct 1101 in Tarsus, Cilicie, Asia Minor
- b.0980 in Kiev, Ukraine d.20 FEB 1053/54 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.1024 in Kiev, Ukraine d.> 1075 in France
- b.1001 in Uppsala, Norway d.10 FEB 1049/50 in Kiev, Ukraine
- b.~ 1085 in Valoix, Vermandois, Normandy d.17 FEB 1130/31 in St. Nicaise, Meulan, France
- b.~ 1000 in Vermandois, France d.25 May 1045
- b.1045 in Vermandois, France d.1080
- b.~ 1015 in Vermandois, France
- b.~ 1062 in Marquis of Savona Vasto d.28 Sep 1124 in Vermandois, France
- b.~ 1025
- b.~ 1032 in Valois, Bretagne, France d.~ 1080
- b.~ 1012
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They had a son named II.
They had a daughter named Margaret.
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