King David (The Saint) Dunkeld of Scots I 
David, known as The Saint, was born in 1085 in Scotland.1 The Saint's father was Malcolm (Longneck) Caenmoe Dunkeld of Scotland III and his mother was Margaret Atheling of Scotland. His paternal grandparents were King of Scotland Duncan (The Gracious) Alpin of Scots I and Sybil Biornsson; his maternal grandparents were Edward (The Exile) of England and Agatha von Braunschweig. He had five brothers and two sisters, named Ethelred, Edgar, The Fierce, Edward, Edmund, Matilda and Mary. He had a half-brother named Heth. He died at the age of 68 on May 23rd, 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England. He was buried in Dunfermline, Scotland.2 1 General Notes
David I, known as "the Saint", (1084 - 1153), king of Scotland, the youngest son of Malcolm Canmore and of Saint Margaret (sister of Edgar Ætheling), was born in 1084. He married in 1113 Matilda, daughter and heiress of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and thus gained possession of the earldom of Huntingdon.
On the death of Edgar, king of Scotland, in 1107, the territories of the Scottish crown were divided in accordance with the terms of his will between his two brothers, Alexander and David. Alexander, together with the crown, received Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde, David the southern district with the title of earl of Cumbria. The death of Alexander in 1124 gave David possession of the whole starting on April 27 of that year.
In 1127, in the character of an English baron, he swore fealty to Matilda as heiress to her father Henry I, and when the usurper Stephen ousted her in 1135 David vindicated her cause in arms and invaded England. But Stephen marched north with a great army, whereupon David made peace. The peace, however, was not kept. After threatening an invasion in 1137, David marched into England in 1138, but sustained a crushing defeat on Cutton Moor in the engagement known as the Battle of the Standard.
He returned to Carlisle, and soon afterwards concluded peace. In 1141 he joined Matilda in London and accompanied her to Winchester, but after a narrow escape from capture he returned to Scotland. Henceforth he remained in his own kingdom and devoted himself to its political and ecclesiastical reorganization. A devoted son of the church, he founded five bishoprics and many monasteries. In secular politics he energetically forwarded the process of feudalization which his immediate predecessors had initiated . He died at Carlisle on May 24 1153.
Original text from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0920 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.0965 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.0948
- b.0920 d.0960
- b.0975 d.1045
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- b.1013 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.14 Aug 1040 in Iona, Elgin, Scotland
- b.0930 in Argyll, Dál Riata, Scotland d.0995 in Finela's Castle, Fettercain, Dál Riata, Scotland
- b.0954 in Argyll, Dál Riata, Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis Castle, Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland
- b.0930 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- b.0984 in Angus, Scotland d.1045
- b.0942 in Scotland
- b.0962 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
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- b.1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.0960 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.0985
- b.0980 in Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden d.22 Sep 1027 in Roskilde, Denmark
- b.0961 in Halland, Sweden
- b.0970 in Denmark d.1049 in Bosham, Sussex, England
- b.0965 in Denmark d.02 Feb 1013 in Gainsboro, England
- b.0997 in Denmark d.09 May
- b.0950 d.02 Feb 1013
- b.1009 d.1040
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- b.1085 in Scotland d.23 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumberland County, England
- b.0944 d.08 Jul 0975 in Winchester, England
- b.0968 d.23 Apr 1016 in London, England
- b.0947 d.1000
- b.0989 d.30 Nov 1016 in London, England
- b.0942
- b.0963 in Wessex, England d.Feb 1002 in Winchester, England
- b.1017 d.1057
- b.1045 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.0930 in Braunschweig, France d.0980
- b.0960 d.1003
- b.0940 in Croatia d.1000
- b.1002 d.23 Apr 1038
- b.0958 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.04 May 1003 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- b.11 Nov 0985 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria d.14 Feb 1043 in Goslar, Duitsland
- b.0968 in Arles, Toulouse, Bourgogne, France d.1016 in Nordgau, Schwaben, Bavaria
- d.1066
- b.0948 in Alsace, France d.0985 in Eguisheim, Haute-Rhin, Alsace, France
- b.0965 in Egisheim, Haute-Rheims, France d.1049 in Eguisheim, Haute-Rhin, Alsace, France
- b.0950 in Ortenburg, Bayern, Bavaria, Germany d.1011
- b.1006 d.21 Jul 1077
- b.0939 in Moselle, Lorraine, France d.0980 in Dagsburg, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0970 in Dabo, Moselle, Lorraine, France d.1046
- b.0950 in Ohningen, Konstanz, Baden, Germany d.1032
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Details of The Saint's family with Matilda of Huntingdon
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