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Birth:          1144 of Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England
Death:          17 Jun 1219 Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland
Burial:         Abbey of Altre, Huntingdonshire, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David,_Earl_of_Huntingdon
David of Scotland (Medieval Gaelic: Dabíd) (1152 – 17 June 1219) was a Scottish 
prince and 8th Earl of Huntingdon. He was, until 1198, heir to the Scottish throne.
Life[edit]

He was the youngest surviving son of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and 
Ada de Warenne, a daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and Elizabeth 
of Vermandois. His paternal grandfather was David I of Scotland. Huntingdon was 
granted to him after his elder brother William I of Scotland ascended the throne. 
David's son John succeeded him to the earldom.

In 1190 his brother gave him 'superiority' over Dundee and its port. The same year he 
endowed Lindores Abbey in Fife and a church dedicated to St Mary in Dundee.[1]

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.

Marriage and issue[edit]

On 26 August 1190 David married Matilda of Chester (1171 – 6 January 1233), 
daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 3rd Earl of Chester. He was almost thirty years 
Matilda's senior. The marriage was recorded by Benedict of Peterborough.[2]

David and Matilda had seven children:
Margaret of Huntingdon (c. 1194 – c. 1228), married Alan, Lord of Galloway, by whom 
she had two daughters, including Dervorguilla of Galloway.
Robert of Huntingdon (died young)
Ada of Huntingdon, married Sir Henry de Hastings, by whom she had one son, Henry 
de Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings.
Matilda (Maud) of Huntingdon (-aft.1219, unmarried)
Isobel of Huntingdon (1199–1251), married firstly, Henry De Percy and had issue and 
secondly, Robert Bruce, 4th Lord of Annandale, by whom she had two sons, including 
Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale.
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (1207 – 6 June 1237), married Elen ferch 
Llywelyn. He succeeded his uncle Ranulf as Earl of Chester in 1232, but died 
childless.
Henry of Huntingdon (died young)[3][4]

Earl David also had three illegitimate children:[5]
Henry of Stirling
Henry of Brechin
Ada, married Malise, son of Ferchar, Earl of Strathearn

After the extinction of the senior line of the Scottish royal house in 1290, when the 
legitimate line of William the Lion of Scotland ended, David's descendants were the 
prime candidates for the throne. The two most notable claimants to the throne, Robert 
Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (grandfather of King Robert I of Scotland) and John of 
Scotland were his descendants through David's daughters Isobel and Margaret, 
respectively.

Possible Robin Hood connection[edit]



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David is a possible inspiration figure for the Robin Hood legend because the legend 
plays at the same time as David lived in the 1190s. Another similarity is the Earl of 
Huntingdon question, because a historian names Robin Hood as a possible Earl of 
that area. Also both had taken part in the Third Crusade and by 1194 David had taken 
part at the siege of Nottingham Castle where the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire and 
Derby County was taken captive. His son Robert who died young was also a possible 
inspiration for Robin Hood.

In popular culture[edit]

Sir Walter Scott's 1825 novel The Talisman features Earl David in his capacity as a 
prince of Scotland as a crusader on the Third Crusade. For the majority of the novel, 
Earl David operates under an alias: Sir Kenneth of the Couchant Leopard. Earl David's 
adventures are highly fictionalized for this novel.

The television series Robin of Sherwood features Earl David of Huntingdon. The first 
reference to Earl David (by name only) is in the episode "The Prisoner", in which 
Prince John states that Earl David is a "dissident" who opposes Prince John's 
possible succession as King Richard's heir should Richard die without a legitimate heir 
of his body. The earl himself appears in the first part of "Herne's Son" in which he is 
not referred to directly as David; his character is the father of Robert of Huntingdon, 
the second son of Herne to feature in the series adopting the alias of Robin Hood. In 
the episode "Rutterkin", the earl appears again with a fictitious brother named Edgar, 
and though he is again not referred to directly as David, it is definitively stated that 
the earl is the brother of the king of Scotland (as Earl David was the brother of King 
William The Lion of Scotland). ("The Prisoner", "Herne's Son" and "Rutterkin" were 
all written by Richard Carpenter.) Earl David was played by Michael Craig.

Earl David features briefly in the 2013 Robin Hood novel The Arrow of Sherwood by 
Lauren Johnson. He is depicted at the siege of Nottingham Castle in support of King 
Richard in 1194.

Parents
OF HUNTINGDON Henry (ABT 1114 - 12 Jun 1152)
DE WARENNE Ada (ABT 1120 - 1178)

Siblings
OF HUNTINGDON Aufrica (ABT 1140 - )
____ William I "the Lion" (1143 - 4 Dec 1214)
____ David (1144 - 17 Jun 1219)
OF HUNTINGDON Margaret (1145 - 1201)
DE HUNTINGDON Ada (ABT 1146 - AFT 11 Jan 1204)
____ Marjory (1152 - ABT 1213)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
DE HUNTINGDON ----- (ABT 1162 - )

Marriage To DE MESCHINES [OF CHESTER] Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1171 - 6 Jan 1233)
    m. 26 Aug 1190 

Notes

Parents
DE MESCHINES HUGH OF KEVELIOC (1147 - 30 Jun 1181)
DE MONTFORT (EVREUX) Bertrade (1155 - 12 Jul 1189)

Children by DE MESCHINES [OF CHESTER] Maud (Matilda) ABT 1171 - 6 Jan 1233
OF HUNTINGDON Margaret (ABT 1194 - BEF 1228)
OF HUNTINGDON Isabelle (1199 - 1252)
OF HUNTINGDON Ada (ABT 1215 - )

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