biography
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| lived:
| (c.1085–1153)
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| biography:
| King of Scots (1124–53), the youngest son of Malcolm Canmore and Queen (later St) Margaret. Educated at the court of Henry I of England, he became Earl of Huntingdon through his marriage to Maud de Senlis (c.1113). Once king, he emphasized his independence, systematically strengthened royal power, and firmly secured the foundations of the mediaeval Kingdom of Scotland. In 1136, as a nominal supporter of the claims of his niece, Empress Matilda, to the English crown, he embarked on wars of territorial conquest against Stephen. He was defeated in 1138 at the Battle of the Standard, near Northallerton, but from 1141 occupied the whole of N England to the Ribble and the Tees. |
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