this is 24 to me and if you're looking
for Kings that changed Scotland forever
then look no further than can you David
the first of Scotland and in the next 10
minutes I hope to tell you about one of
the longest living and biggest achieving
Scottish medieval monarch and if you
stick with me till the end
then I'll suggest a great way to spend a
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meantime let me tell your story okay so
I lied there's no way that I can fit the
life of David the first into 10 minutes
but what I can do is give you a summary
and a dichotomy incidentally while we're
at it why don't you tell me who you
think is the most influential Scottish
King give it in the comment section
underneath you don't even have to give a
reason for that just tell me who you
think is even if you're not Scottish
tell me who you thinks the most
influential Scottish King that you've
heard about because for us is good for
us to see yourselves as ever see us
it seems to me that David the first was
the model of Scottish kinship he formed
the legal foundation of medieval
Scotland he reformed the religious
structures of medieval Scotland he
instituted the commercial boroughs of
medieval Scotland the ones who survive
right through to modern-day Edinburgh
Aberdeen Dunfermline pair he was the
first king to mint Scottish coins he
resisted the English power and at the
age of 69 he died in a castle in the
heartland of his kingdom in Carlisle I
that she didn't he didn't see that
coming did you if you were in the chase
right now you'd be out here with some 12
an English kisser smart kitty you know
you personally like you and obviously I
was just joking none of the cheese's
know anything about Scotland David grew
up the son of a Gallic Celtic father and
a Saxon mother and he grew up in Norman
England
boom it's not a dichotomy it's a
trichotomy he was also a warrior king a
saint and a lawgiver
a sad double trichotomy ASA ASA I don't
know what that is but are six of them
the thing is that David was never
expected to be king he ended up being a
self-made man and when I see that I mean
he was constructed at any effects kit
they've been built by sister Mathilda
but he glued it together
do you remember to see her fix kids yeah
let me explain David was a sixth son of
Malcolm the third and for Scotland now
incidentally I've done a video with the
rise to power of Malcolm the third of
Scotland okay he was a sick son of
Malcolm can more with a second wife
Margaret Ethan who becomes sin marked
earlier on no you know how many fievel
royal families one the first son was the
heir to the throne and he would be
powerful the second son went into the
Chuck and he would be rich obviously and
wisdom rather than what a wizard the
third son might get an allotment so if
you the sixth son you're the end of a
long line you'd be lucky to get
hand-me-down tiana from your sister so
you'd better learn a trade
no for reasons that we don't have time
to go into ok sacks mum died three days
after his dad miss elder brother died in
the same battle and his Gallic uncle
took over as king
sounds like we did have table winter
anyway the children of Malcolm and
Margaret was scared of Uncle Donald we
don't talk about on called on opal they
fled from Donald and David grew up and
England their own a Norman English Court
and William Rufus the English King st.
David's elder brothers back to Scotland
with Norman knights to get rid of his
own corner of course the young David he
surplus to requirements he's in London
due to singles employment we used to
have like ships in that so he's bombing
it better than London and then a stroke
of luck
his sister Molly's Henry the first of
England he marries an English landed
widow and his last I mean in brother
Alexander the first of Scotland dies and
bingo six numbers in a Buddhist bow you
might think so but really
it's really only in control of Scotland
south of the fourth claimed lane if you
learned in Elkin you could be packed
like sardines July coronavirus pandemic
and nobody could touch him part for the
other side means obviously but this was
his great achievement over the next 31
years he consolidated control over most
of what's known Scotland formalized
legal structure viewed eyes political
structure built monasteries and Abbey's
and reorganized the church
whilst avoiding subjugation to ash
bishoprics in Canterbury on Europe the
monasteries brought in new farming
techniques the brothers that he created
improve trade he lost his one major
battle against the English and yet
managed to subjugate the north of
England his power and effectively
extended the border south to the Humber
Abdullah Fuhrer is either but we own
them also without David at first we
would never have had John Belial or
William Wallace we would never have had
Robert the Bruce he's here Robert the
Bruce was just a minor knight in
Normandy in France and obviously when I
see Robert the Bruce and don't mean a
Robert the Bruce I mean his great great
great granddad was that too many greens
and as a matter he wasn't that clear the
time Bruce was just a knight a little
land in breeks
was a nobleman who gained this Norman
lands from Henry the first of England
because Henry's wife Matilda was a
daughter of Malcolm Canmore and Margaret
Ethan and a younger brother was the
apprentice plumber called David who
gained great Switzerland and Normandy
from King Henry the small castle he was
supposed to get was just an instrument
spare parts va-t-en picture
David became the right-hand man to King
Henry of England super the time Davis
remaining elder brother Alexander the
first
he was already a major figure in the
English Court and a land owning nobleman
in England Scotland and Normandy
now get this if I'm King David I'm King
of Scots through my dad Malcolm but
through my mother Margaret Earthling of
also the rightful heir to the saxon
crown of England supplanted by the
Normans in 1066 and through my sister
I'm the leading Norman new woman an
uncle to the Normans successor to the
English throne
now I'm again in this nightclub or no
but here's the dichotomy we did this
anglo-saxon Celtic Norman really fed was
he really one of us Scottish Izzy David
brought carbon tube leaks and others
from Normandy to his English lines they
needed to give him lands to subdue in
Annandale and Scotland emigrants he used
these trusts at Norman knights to impose
his will on Scotland in Div his lifetime
Scotland was transformed from Celtic to
Saxon to Norman now don't get me wrong
there we're still gills in the north and
the west but he pretty brutally put them
down once it secured the same installed
his people to keep an eye on things he
built his monasteries to convert Celtic
Christianity to Catholic Christianity
and his power base and focus was as
often south of the sole wheat wheat Lane
as it was to the north of it there to be
fear he did take Scotland down as far as
the humbug look I told you I don't know
the point is that the guy had cojones if
onlys used them his wife died early on
and he never remarried this meant they
only had one son that's a precarious
position to be in for a medieval King
but he survived and thrived and brought
up his son Henry in his own image but
and 1152 when David must have known that
he didn't have that long left himself
his son L Henry died this adult meal
with connections me too and also taken
from the northern English nobility was
gone well less than a year his own death
David must have thought I just can't
start over again but he tried with an
aging King though the northern English
Nobles were never gonna give allegiance
to his grandson Malcolm who was a minor
which is surprising exactly Jordi's like
the menos I thought we agreed we what
I'm gonna do that job David died on the
24th of May 11:53 now there's no way to
cover all davies lengths in ten minutes
how did he subdue money the West
Highlands Cumberland northumbrian why
did he lose about other standards I'll
obviously have to do more videos in the
length of David and the other cameras
for that matter so really interesting
informative period and Scots history
that people tend to ignore because
there's no tartan or claymores but what
do you think David's imposition of
lowland Norman rule on highland scotland
the most successful scottish may be evil
king but parallel to the Duke of
Cumberland I'm just seeing fears that
they cotta me with which we need to
struggle and on that note
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filmed this 2d at wittle old church it
was built in the era that we're
discussing and it was a branch of the
bishopric of them bleem set up by david
and the first place but I also promised
you suggestions for a do if you want a
suggestion for a historical do with
visits to places associated with beaver
the first a bit like this but bigger and
better then there should be a clickable
link from the top left corner he'll go
tonight video like that and remember how
far south David's influence went we will
be crossing the border anyway I hope to
see you in that video if you're one of
the hardened Scottish history buffs
there's not interested in the be open
and all that kind of stuff there will be
a link to a different video down here go
and watch one of the other in the
meantime I mean Dockers can be a llama
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