David Huntingdon Earl of Huntingdon

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• Background Information. ⁸⁷¹
David, Earl of Huntingdon, son of Henrt mac Crínán Earl of Huntington and Ada de Warenne, was born about 1144. He married, 26 Aug 1190, Maud, daughter of Hugh, Earl of Chester. David died at Jerdelay, 17 Jun 1219.

~The Scots Peerage, Vol I, p. 4

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
David of Scotland, younger brother of Malcolm and William, Kings of Scotland and Earls of Huntington. He was knighted by Henry II, 31 May 1170. He received from his brother William, soon after the latter's return from imprisonent in England in 1174, the district of Garioch, co. Aberdeen (being by some some considered, but on insufficient evidence, to have become Earl of Garioch), and the Earldon of Lennox. In the same year he was sent by his brother to Leicester to succour the knights of the Earl of Leicester. He was a hostage for Scotland upon the confirmation, made at York August 1175, of the Convention of Falaise, the terms of which were proclaimed in St. Petcr's, York, before both Kings, the Scots earls doing fealty there to Henry and his son. By the resignation in his favour of the Earldom by William, his brother, he became Earl of Huntingdon in 1185. He attended the meeting in London summoned by Henry II for Quadragesima Sunday 1185 to discuss Pope Lucius's letter for a new crusade. He carried one of the three swords at the Coronation of Richard I, 3 September 1189; was confirmed in the honour of Huntingdon, probably after another surrender by William, as fully as King David his father and King Malcolm his brother had held it, 24 June 1190. He founded., about 1191 the Abbey of Lindores in Fife, was a benefactor to St. Andrew's, Northampton, and to Holy Trinity (Christ Church), London. Earl David, brother of the King of Scots, he made a grant of land in Cambridge witnessed by Henry his son and Simon St. Liz. He and his brother-in-law, the Earl of Chester, besieged the castle of Nottingham in 1194, when it was held by the adherents of John, the King's brotlier, and in that year attended Richard in his expedition into Normandy. He did homage to his nephew, Alexander, son of King William, in 1205. His English honours were confirmed to him 23 May 1205 and 5 March 1215, but he was deprived in 1215 or 1216,and restored 13 March 1218.

David of Scotland married, 26 August 1190, Maud, sister and coheir of Ranulph, 4th Earl of Chester, eldest daughter of Hugh, of Kevelioc, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon, comté d'Evreux. David died 17 June 1219, at Yardley, Northants, and was buried in Sawtrey Abbey. His widow died about 6 January 1233.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 646-647, Vol. XIV, p. 395

David married Maud of Chester, daughter of Hugh Kevelioc Earl of Chester, Vicomté d'Avranches and Bertrade de Montfort ¹⁴¹.^,871 (Maud of Chester was born in Chester, Cheshire, England and died about 6 Jan 1233 ¹⁴¹.)