Subj : Re: C.P. Addition: Children of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon To : All From : Peter Stewart Date : Fri Sep 07 2018 02:44 am From: Peter Stewart On Saturday, September 8, 2018 at 6:56:31 AM UTC+10, celticp...@gmail.com w= rote: > Dear Newsgroup ~ > > Complete Peerage 6 (1926): 647, footnote l (sub Huntingdon) discusses the= children of David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (died 1219). It state= s Earl David had three sons and three daughters: Robert, Henry, and John, a= nd three daughters, Margaret, Isabel, and Ada. A seventh child David is su= ggested by the editor. > > Recently I came across a Common Pleas lawsuit dated Easter term 1303 whic= h deals with the heirs of Alexander III, King of Scots (died 1286). The la= wsuit may be viewed at the following weblink: > > Court of Common Pleas, CP40/147, image 50 (available at http://aalt.law.u= h.edu/AALT6/E1/CP40no147/IMG_0050.htm). > > The lawsuit names the three main competitors to the Scottish crown then l= iving, namely John de Hastings (plaintiff in the lawsuit), John de Balliol,= and Robert de Brus. The lawsuit states how each of the competitors were d= escended from King Alexander III's great uncle, David of Scotland, Earl of = Huntingdon (died 1219). Since these lines of descent are covered by many o= ther published sources, they will not be repeated here. > > Something which is new in the lawsuit is a list of the children of David = of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon. The lawsuit alleges that Earl David was s= uccessively succeeded by three sons in turn, namely Thomas, David, and John= , and that following John's death, he was succeeded by his four sisters, Al= ice (who died without issue), Margaret, Isabel, and Ada. > > Contemporary records, however, show that Earl David was succeeded on his = death by his son, Earl John (died 1237). When John died without issue, his= properties were divided by his surviving sisters, Margaret, Isabel, and Ad= a, or their representatives. There appears to have been a fourth sister, M= aud, wife of John de Monmouth, who predeceased her brother John and she die= d without issue. The four sisters were named correctly in the claim of John de Balliol ("Joh= annes obiit sine herede de corpore suo, unde de eodem Johanne descendit jus= , et debuit descendere, Margarete, Ysabelle, Matildi, et Ade, ut sororibus = et uni heredi, si regnum esset partibile"). You can find this in Edward Sto= nes & Grant Simpson (editors), *Edward I and the Throne of Scotland, 1290= =E2=80=931296: An Edition of the Record Sources for the Great Cause*, 2 vol= s (1978), vol ii p 140, and in Foedera vol i/part II p 776. Peter Stewart --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2 * Origin: News Gate @ Net396 -Huntsville, AL - USA (1:396/4) .