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Authors: Alison Weir

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Claricia
She died unmarried.
4  
Hodierna
She died young and unmarried.
DAVID I
He died on 24 May, 1153, at Carlisle in Cumbria, and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife. He was known as ‘the Saint’, and was popularly reputed as one after his death.
He was succeeded by his grandson Malcolm.
Malcolm IV
F
ATHER
:
Henry, Earl of Huntingdon
(
see here
, under
David I
).
M
OTHER
:
Ada de Warenne
(
see here
, under
David I
).
S
IBLINGS
: (
see here
, under
David I
).
MALCOLM IV
Known as ‘the Maiden’, he was born on 20 March, 1141/2. He succeeded his grandfather David I as King of Scotland on 24 May, 1153, and was crowned soon afterwards (the date is unknown) at Scone Abbey, Perthshire.
Malcolm IV is said, with reservations, to have had the following
illegitimate issue
:
1  Henry (
d.
1152 sic.). His existence rests only upon very obscure evidence, and he has perhaps been confused with King Malcolm’s father, Henry. The date of his death, 1152, is impossible, as his alleged father was then no more than 11 years old.
MALCOLM IV
He died unmarried on 9 December, 1165, at Jedburgh Castle, and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife.
He was succeeded by his brother William.
King William
F
ATHER
:
Henry, Earl of Huntingdon
(
see here
, under
David I
).
M
OTHER
:
Ada de Warenne
(
see here
, under
David I
).
S
IBLINGS
: (
see here
, under
David I
).
KING WILLIAM
Known as ‘the Lyon’, he was born in
c.
1142/3. He succeeded his father as Earl of Northumberland on 12 June, 1152, but surrendered this earldom in 1157. He succeeded his brother Malcolm IV as King of Scotland on 9 December, 1165, and was crowned on 24 December, 1165, at Scone Abbey, Perthshire.
King William married
, on 5 September, 1186, at Woodstock Palace, Oxon.:
Ermengarde
She was the daughter of Richard, Viscount of Beaumont-le-Maine, by Constance, illegitimate daughter of Henry I, King of England. She died on 11 February, 1233/4, and was buried in Balmerino Abbey, Fife.
Issue of marriage:
1  
Margaret
She was born in
c.
1193. She married Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (
d.
1243), on 19 June, 1221, and had issue:
1  Margaret (Megotta) (1222?–1237); she married Richard de Clare, Earl of Hertford and Gloucester (1222?–1262).
Margaret died in 1259, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, London.
2  
Alexander II
(
see here
).
3  
Isabella
She married Roger Bigod, 4th Earl of Norfolk (1212?–1270), in May, 1225, at Alnwick, Northumberland. She was repudiated by her husband on grounds of consanguinity in 1245, but was reconciled to him in 1253. The date of her death is not known. She was
buried in the Church of the Black Friars, London.
4
Marjorie
She married Gilbert Marshal, 4th Earl of Pembroke (
d
.1241), either before 14 July, or on 1 August, 1235, at Berwick-upon-Tweed. She died on 17 November, 1244, and was buried in the Church of the Black Friars, London.
King William also had the following
illegitimate issue
:
By the daughter of Adam de Hythus:
1  Margaret (
d
. after 1226); she married Eustace de Vesci (1169–1216), and had issue.
By a daughter of Robert Avenal:
2  Isabella; she married firstly Robert le Brus (
d
. before 1191), and had issue. She married secondly Robert de Ros, 1st Baron Ros of Helmsley (
d
.1226), and had issue.
By unknown mothers:
3  Robert de London.

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