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David "8th Earl of Huntingdon" Huntingdon

(Abt 1152 - Abt 17 Jun 1219)

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[[Category:Earls of Huntingdon]]
== Biography ==
David is referred to in various ways: David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, or in Gaelic as, Daibhidh mac Eanric. He is also known as David Dunkeld and David of Huntingdon.
Younger brother of Kings William the Lion and Malcolm IV, he was knighted by Henry II on 31 May 1170. Upon his brother William's return from imprisonment in England in 1174, he received from him the district of Garioch in Aberdeenshire and the earldom of Lennox. He was a hostage for Scotland upon the confirmation of the Convention of Falaise, terms of which were proclaimed before both Kings, and the Scots earls doing fealty to Henry and his son. By his brother, William's, resignation of the earldom, he became Earl of Huntingdon in 1185. He founded the Abbey of Lindores in Fife in 1191, and was a benefactor to St. Andrew's and to Holy Trinity London. He and his brother-in-law, the Earl of Chester, besieged the castle of Nottingham in 1194, when it was held by adherents of John, the King's brother. His English honors were confirmed to him in May 1205 and Mar 1215, but he was deprived in 1215/1216, but were again restored in Mar 1218.
In the litigation for succession to the crown of Scotland in 1290–1292, the great-great-grandson Floris V, Count of Holland of David's sister, Ada, claimed that David had renounced his hereditary rights to the throne of Scotland. He therefore declared that his claim to the throne had priority over David's descendants. However, no explanation or firm evidence for the supposed renunciation could be provided.David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia''

== Children ==He and wife Maud had three sons and three daughters: (1) Robert, who died young; (2) Henry, who died unmarried; (3) John "the Scot", who became Earl of Huntingdon and Chester, who died s.p.; (4) Margaret, married Alan, Lord of Galloway; (5) Isabel, married Robert Brus, Lord of Annandale; and (6) Ada, married Henry de Hastings. There was likely another son, David, who is called "David, my son" and named as deceased in a charter.
David also had four known illegitimate children, three sons and a daughter

== Death and Burial ==The Scots Peerage suggests that David died at Jerdelay but it has been suggested that it is the incorrect spelling for Yardley which is located in Northamptonshire.
He was interred in Sawtry Abbey, Huntingdonshire (now in Cambridgeshire), though it had apparently been his long-standing wish to be buried in Lindores Abbey, Fife, a monastery of the Tironensian order founded by him c.1190, and colonized from Kelso Abbey. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawtry_Abbey)

== Sources ==
* Royal Ancestry D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I p. 223-228
* Royal Ancestry 2013 Vol. IV p. 580-583

* Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

* GeneaJourney.com
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_of_Scotland,_Earl_of_Huntingdon David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, ''Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia'']
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#Daviddied1219 Foundation for Medieval Genealogy]
* The Scots Peerage, Sir James Balfour Paul, Ed., 1904 Vol 1, p. 4. http://archive.org/stream/scotspeeragefoun01pauluoft#page/4/mode/2up
* Source: S38 Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Edition: 7th ed. Abbreviation: Ancestral Roots, 7th ed. Author: Weis, Frederick Lewis, Editor: Sheppard Jr., Walter Lee Publication: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD, 1992

== Footnotes ==


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== Biography ==



== Sources ==

* Genihttp://www.geni.com/people/David-9th-Earl-of-Huntington/6000000004287155704

Fabpedigree
http://fabpedigree.com/s086/f375566.htm

Jackson Ancestorshttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jackson%5Fanc&id=I6000000004287155704

The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwesthttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I03550

Celtic Royal Genealogyhttp://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=aet%2Dt&id=I5468

Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_of_Scotland,_8th_Earl_of_Huntingdon

ThePeerage
http://www.thepeerage.com/p10248.htm#i102479

    Events

    BirthAbt 1152Huntingdonshire, England
    Marriage26 Aug 1190Huntingdon, Northumberland, England - Countess Matilda Chester
    DeathAbt 17 Jun 1219Northamptonshire, England. Buried at Sawtry Abbey, Cambridgeshire.
    Alt nameDunkeld
    Reference No454020
    Reference No470131
    Reference No60

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