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170 SCOTTISH ANNALS
H35
HlSTORIA DUNELMENSIS ECCLESIJE, CONTINUATIO PuiMA ;
S. OF D., VOL. I, p. 142.1
And in [Thurstan's] third year [of office] king Henry
died, in the year of the Lord's incarnation 1135. And to
him immediately succeeded Stephen, that king's nephew by
his sister and he ;
held the English kingdom with the greatest
labour for nineteen years, the chief men of the whole realm
being at discord among themselves.
Now the cause of the discord was this. In king Henry's
day they had sworn the kingdom to his daughter, who, once
empress of the Germans, was at this time united in wedlock
with the earl of Anjou. 2 For this reason David, king of Scots,
and all the earls of England were at discord with king Stephen ;
and while they mutually opposed one another they afforded
all ill-doers the opportunity of working wickedness, so that
the greater part of the realm was left desolate. 3
1136
JOHN OF HEXHAM, IN S. OF D., VOL. II, p. 287, S.A. 1136. 4
David also, the king of Scotland, uncle of the empress,
not unmindful of the oath which he and the whole realm had
sworn to king Henry concerning his successor, immediately
rose against the kingdom of England, and very quickly obtained
the fortresses of Cumberland and Northumbria with
the peoples of the district as far as to Durham, excepting
Bamborough. 5
He received also oaths and hostages from the nobility,
in pledge that they would keep their faith to his niece.
!Cf. A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 1136.
2
Geoffrey Plantagenet. Cf. A.S.C., MS. E, s.a. 1127. This marriage
was held by some to have rendered the oath of the barons void ; W. of M.,
H.N., ii, 530.
3
Cf. G. of C., ii, 72.
4
Cf. R. of H., G.R.S., in Chr. of Ste., etc., iii, 145-146.
"
A. of R., Saints, in Raine's Hexh., i, 183 : David, king of the Scots,
was fired with zeal for the king's daughter, to whom he with the whole of
England had been bound by oaths."
5 R. of H., G.R.S., u.s., iii, 145 :
" Likewise soon after Christmas
[1135] David, king of Scotland, that lady's uncle, with a large army seized
and held five towns in the province of Northumbria ; namely Lugubalia,
which in English is called Carlisle, and Carham, which is called by the English
Wark, and Alnwick, and Norham, and Newcastle. But Bamborough he
could by no means take."