David I of Scotland
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David I of Scotland Net Worth

s. David I of Scotland was a 12th century king who ruled over Scotland from 1124–1153. He was born as the youngest son of Malcolm III of Scotland and Margaret of Wessex, and experienced a difficult childhood due to the death of his father and brother, and the subsequent death of his mother. After being exiled, he went to live with his brother-in-law, King Henry I of England, and eventually became the King of Scotland with Henry's support. His reign saw many social, political and religious changes take place in the country, and is known as the 'Davidian Revolution'. He is especially remembered for founding monasteries and implementing the ideals of Gregorian Reforms.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Ruler
Birth Year 1084
Birth Place Scotland, Scottish
Age 935 YEARS OLD
Died On (1153-05-24)24 May 1153\nCarlisle
Reign April or May 1124 – 24 May 1153
Coronation Scone, April or May 1124
Predecessor Alexander I
Successor Malcolm IV
Burial Dunfermline Abbey
Spouse Maud, Countess of Huntingdon
Issue Henry, Earl of Northumberland Hodierna Claricia
Full name Full name Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim
Father Malcolm III of Scotland
Mother Margaret of Wessex

💰 Net worth

The net worth of David I of Scotland is projected to range between $100,000 and $1 million by 2024. Also known as the Ruler in Scottish history, David I was a monarch who reigned from 1124 to 1153. Despite ruling during a time of political and territorial turmoil, David I managed to consolidate his power and expand the influence of the Scottish crown. This economic estimate reflects the prosperous era of his reign and highlights his significance as a monarch in Scottish history.

Biography/Timeline

1900

In the modern period there has been more of an emphasis on David's statebuilding and on the effects of his changes on Scottish cultural development. Lowland Scots tended to trace the origins of their culture to the marriage of David's father Máel Coluim III to Saint Margaret, a myth which had its origins in the medieval period. With the development of modern historical techniques in the mid-19th century, responsibility for these developments appeared to lie more with David than his father. David assumed a principal place in the alleged destruction of the Celtic Kingdom of Scotland. Andrew Lang, in 1900, wrote that "with Alexander [I], Celtic domination ends; with David, Norman and English dominance is established".

1954

In the 20th century, several studies were devoted to Normanisation in 12th-century Scotland, focusing upon and hence emphasising the changes brought about by the reign of David I. Græme Ritchie's The Normans in Scotland (1954), Archie Duncan's Scotland: The Making of the Kingdom (1974) and the many articles of G. W. S. Barrow all formed part of this historiographical trend.

1975

The lands in question consisted of the pre-1975 counties of Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, Berwickshire, Peeblesshire and Lanarkshire. David, moreover, gained the title princeps Cumbrensis, "Prince of the Cumbrians", as attested in David's charters from this era. Although this was a large slice of Scotland south of the river Forth, the region of Galloway-proper was entirely outside David's control.

1980

In the 1980s, Barrow sought a compromise between change and continuity, and argued that the reign of King David was in fact a "Balance of New and Old". Such a conclusion was a natural incorporation of an underlying current in Scottish historiography which, since william F. Skene's monumental and revolutionary three-volume Celtic Scotland: A History of Ancient Alban (1876–80), had been forced to acknowledge that "Celtic Scotland" was alive and healthy for a long time after the reign of David I. Michael Lynch followed and built upon Barrow's compromise solution, arguing that as David's reign progressed, his kingship became more Celtic. Despite its subtitle, in 2004 in the only full volume study of David I's reign yet produced, David I: The King Who Made Scotland, its author Richard Oram further builds upon Lynch's picture, stressing continuity while placing the changes of David's reign in their context.

2012

Although avoiding stress on 12th-century Scottish "barbarity", the Lowland Scottish historians of the later Middle Ages tend to repeat the accounts of earlier chronicle tradition. Much that was written was either directly transcribed from the earlier medieval chronicles themselves or was modelled closely upon them, even in the significant works of John of Fordun, Andrew Wyntoun and Walter Bower. For Example, Bower includes in his text the eulogy written for David by Ailred of Rievaulx. This quotation extends to over twenty pages in the modern edition, and exerted a great deal of influence over what became the traditional view of David in later works about Scottish history. Historical treatment of David developed in the writings of later Scottish historians, and the writings of men like John Mair, George Buchanan, Hector Boece, and Bishop John Leslie ensured that by the 18th century a picture of David as a pious, justice-loving state-builder and vigorous maintainer of Scottish independence had emerged.

2013

Since Robert Bartlett's pioneering work, The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization and Cultural Change, 950–1350 (1993), reinforced by Moore's The First European Revolution, c.970–1215 (2000), it has become increasingly apparent that better understanding of David's "revolution" can be achieved by recognising the wider "European revolution" taking place during this period. The central idea is that from the late 10th century onwards the culture and institutions of the old Carolingian heartlands in northern France and western Germany were spreading to outlying areas, creating a more recognisable "Europe". Scotland was just one of many "outlying" areas.

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