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5 days ago · David issued the first Scottish silver coinage; he also reorganised civil institutions and founded royal burghs (such as Stirling, Perth and Dunfermline). David extended feudal tenure by granting land to Anglo-Normans in return for feudal services, and appointed them as royal officials such as sheriffs and justiciars.
4 days ago · At the start of the twelfth century, Scotland saw a religious revival and improved administration under David I, the most successful of Malcolm Canmore's sons to become king. He organised the building of the great Border abbeys, the granting of town charters and the first standard coinage.
2 days ago · David Hume (/ h juː m /; born David Home; 7 May NS [26 April OS] 1711 – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish Enlightenment philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
1 day ago · David was succeeded by his grandsons Malcolm IV, and then by William the Lion, the longest-reigning King of Scots before the Union of the Crowns. William participated in a rebellion against King Henry II of England but when the rebellion failed, William was captured by the English.
17 hours ago · A far smaller English army destroyed the greatest Scottish force ever prepared to invade England at Flodden Field in 1513, inflicting 10,000 casualties on the Scots in two hours. Once more in 1542 at Solway Moss, 3,000 English soldiers routed a 15,000-man Scottish force, taking 1,200 Scots prisoners.
2 days ago · Biography. David II (1324–1371), king of Scots, was the son of Robert I (1274-1329) and his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh (d.1327), daughter of Richard de Burgh, earl of Ulster. One of twins born in Dunfermline Abbey on 5 March 1324 (his brother John died before July 1326).
May 9, 2024 · Malcolm IV (r. 1153-1165) David I's successor was his 12-year-old grandson Malcolm, known to later medieval writers as 'the Maiden', because of his youthful appearance. His succession to the throne as a minor caused problems. In 1157 Malcolm was compelled to cede Cumberland and Westmorland to Henry II in exchange for the Earldom of Huntingdon ...
