Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

32 DAVID I.
Coldingham, and Durham. Alexander also founded Cells or Priories at Loch
Tay, where his queen Sybilla, natural daughter of Henry I. of England, died,
and was buried, A.D. 1122.
In Alexander's day the Culdees ceased to have power in the Church. The
last Gaelic or Culdee bishop died the same year as Malcolm Caenmore. He
was Bishop of St Andrews, and the see remained vacant during the two suc-
ceeding reigns. Alexander attempted to make Turgot Bishop of St An-
drews, but failed, from differences with Rome. Turgot died, A.D. 1 1 15. It
appears, from Ethelred's gift of the church of Admore to Loch Leven, that there
were schools and colleges of learning at Abernethy, and that Ethelred was
under age at the time he made it.
April 25, Alexander I. died without heirs. Had his brother David not been his suc-
11 24. cessor, his possession of Cumbria would have been a serious evil. As it was,
the whole of Scotland became united under David, one of the best of its kings.
April 27, David, sixth son of Malcolm Canmore, was crowned at Scone king of the
1 124. reun ited kingdom of Scotland. David had married, during his residence in the
south, Matilda or Maude, widow of Simon de St Litz, and daughter of
Waltheof Earl of Northumberland, by Judith, niece of William th*e Con-
queror. With her he got the honour of Huntingdon, Tottenham, and other
possessions, thus becoming an English baron, which often placed him and
other Scottish sovereigns, his descendants, in positions of great difficulty.
Judith, his wife's mother, was the daughter of Odo or Eudo, first Earl of
Albemarle and Holderness, by Adeliza, half-sister of the Conqueror. Odo, her
father, was also Earl of Champaigne. He was grandson of Maude, daughter
of Richard Duke of Normandy, by her marriage with Eudo Earl of Blois and
Chartres.
After the murder of Comes Robertus Comyn and the flight of Cospatrick,
1070. William I., finding it difficult to subdue Northumbria, gave the earldom back
to Waltheof, son of the late Earl Siward, and with it bestowed upon him his
beautiful but treacherous niece, Judith, to wife, A.D. 1075. Earl Waltheof
being one of the guests at a wedding-feast where some malcontents spoke
against the Norman rule, entered with them into a bond to resist it. Consider-
ing, in a more sober hour, that he had gone too far, he confided this to his wife,
who immediately informed her uncle, and Waltheof was taken prisoner and
beheaded.
After this, Simon de St Litz was appointed by the king to marry Judith,
but she would not have him because " he halted of a leg " (Dugdale) ; so her
young daughter Maude was betrothed to Simon, who got with her the earldom
of Northampton and other estates. He died in France, A.D. 1115, leaving to