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156 SCOTTISH ANNALS<br />

court of Henry, k<strong>in</strong>g of the English. And, while <strong>in</strong>test<strong>in</strong>e<br />

slaughter harried the Scots, and <strong>in</strong> madness of war unappeasably<br />

took arms aga<strong>in</strong>st its own vitals, he stayed permanently<br />

<strong>in</strong> the court of his sister's husband, 1 and grew up, tra<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

among the boys of the household ; and merited the familiar<br />

friendship of the wise and powerful k<strong>in</strong>g.<br />

And hence he received from him the dist<strong>in</strong>guished arms<br />

of knighthood ; and, presented with manifold gifts, took his<br />

seat near him, among the chief nobles.<br />

AlLRED OF RlEVAULX, EPISTOLA, IN TwYSDEN, COL. 368. 2<br />

Moreover k<strong>in</strong>g David took to wife, k<strong>in</strong>g Henry giv<strong>in</strong>g her<br />

to him, Matilda, daughter of earl Waldeve and of Judith,<br />

who was the niece of the first k<strong>in</strong>g William. And of her<br />

[David] had a son Henry, a man gentle and pious, a man of<br />

sweet nature and of pure heart, and worthy <strong>in</strong> all th<strong>in</strong>gs to<br />

be born of such a father.<br />

And with [Henry] I have lived from the cradle, and have<br />

grown up with him, as boys together and <strong>in</strong> ; my youth I<br />

have known his youth also.<br />

And <strong>in</strong> the body, but never <strong>in</strong> m<strong>in</strong>d or affection, <strong>in</strong> order<br />

to serve Christ I left him, <strong>in</strong> the full bloom of his prime as<br />

;<br />

a] so his father, now flourish<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> hale old age, whom I have<br />

loved beyond all mortals.<br />

ORBERIC VITAL, VIII, 20, IN MIGNE, PATROLOGIA, VOL. 188,<br />

COL. 621-622.<br />

Now his first-born offspr<strong>in</strong>g, of male sex, was cruelly sla<strong>in</strong><br />

by a certa<strong>in</strong> miserable cleric, who for an unheard-of crime<br />

which he had committed among the Norwegians had been<br />

punished by the loss of his eyes and the cutt<strong>in</strong>g off of feet<br />

and hands. For t<strong>here</strong>, after receiv<strong>in</strong>g the sacraments, when<br />

the people had retired, he struck a certa<strong>in</strong> priest while he<br />

celebrated mass a strong blow with a great knife <strong>in</strong> the abdo-<br />

1<br />

Cf. A. of R., supra, s.a. 1100.<br />

2<br />

"<br />

O.V., VIII, 20, <strong>in</strong> Migne, 188, 621 : He also took to wife the daughter<br />

of earl Waldeve and of Judith, cous<strong>in</strong> of the k<strong>in</strong>g ; and he held both the<br />

earldoms, of Northampton and of Hunt<strong>in</strong>gdon, which earl Simon de Senlis<br />

had possessed with the woman aforesaid. [Cf. W. of M., G.R., ii, 312.]<br />

"<br />

And she bore [David] a son, called Henry ; and two daughters. Clarice<br />

and Hodierna."<br />

So also R. de T., <strong>in</strong> Chr. of Ste., etc., iv, 111. Perhaps both writers<br />

follow the lost work of David Scotus ; cf. Howlett, ibid., note.<br />

The marriage took place about 1113-1114; Scots Peerage, i, 3. Cf.<br />

A.S.C., supra, s.a. 1114.

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