Family records of the Bruces and the Cumyns

26 DONALD-BAIN (THE FAIR).
The daughters were —
1st. Matilda, Maude, or Mold, queen of Henry I. of England (surnamed
Henry Beauclerc, third son of William the Conqueror). Matilda had two sons,
both of whom were drowned in the White Ship, along with 140 of the young
nobility of England, when crossing from France after the marriage of the
young prince. Matilda's only daughter, " Alicia," married to the Emperor of
Germany, alone remained to unite in her person the Saxon and Norman
lines, assuming the well-loved name of " Matilda," and the title of " Empress-
Queen," on her father's death. Her- history presents a checkered page in
English history.
2d. Mary, married Eustace Count de Bulloigne, brother of the renowned
Godfrey King of Jerusalem.
Her daughter " Matilda," the wife of Stephen, King of England, thus became
the rival of her cousin the empress. From Mary also descended the Dukes de
Bulloigne, of whom was the celebrated Turenne, General of Louis XIV.
1093. Three parties divided Scotland at the time of the death of Malcolm
Caenmore.
In the north, the defeat of " Malsnechtan " by the late king had been too
recent to admit of any movement on the part of the house of Moray to seize
the crown ; whilst on the east coast the adherents of the reigning family were
divided between the hereditary followers of the house of Athol and the English
refugees of the Lothians and Northumbria. A certain jealousy of these last
had made the " sainted queen " less popular amongst the native Scots, and the
election of Donald-bain to fill the vacant throne was the natural consequence
of this feeling, and of an inclination to return to the ancient usages of the
monarchy.
This was followed by the expulsion of the Saxons — Edgar Atheling taking
with him to England the children of his sister Margaret, and supporting them
on his own slender means, thus returning in some sort the kindness he had
uniformly received from their parents.
Meanwhile Donald-bain, brother of the late king, reigned in Scotland.
According to Abercrombie, he had resided in the Western Isles since the
murder of his father by Macbeth, and probably succeeded to the authority and
possessions of his grandfather Crynan there. He was now seated on the throne
by the assistance of the Norwegians.
Duncan, eldest son of the late king, resided at the English court, where he
had been brought up as a hostage from a very early age — since 1072 — and
was knighted, and often employed by Robert Duke of Normandy in military
affairs. On learning the accession of his uncle, he presented himself before