Now I have never really seen our history just through the prism of Kings and Queens or great shapers, but I am interested in David 1 of Scotland, if for no other reason than one side of my family originated in the East Highlands and only crossed the border at the start of the 20th century.
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| Great Seal of David I |
"Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands.
The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of Cumbria before claiming the throne in 1124.
He introduced elements of what he had learned in England and, in the next decades, his kingdom saw new burghs, new monasteries, new ways of governing and the arrival of some very influential families, earning him the reputation of The Perfect King.
With, Richard Oram, Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling, Alice Taylor, Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London, and, Alex Woolf, Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews
Producer: Simon Tillotson"
Picture; Steel engraving and enhancement of the reverse side of the Great Seal of David I, King of Alba (Scotland), 1859, from The Pictorial History of Scotland from the Roman Invasion to the close of the Jacobite Rebellion. A.D. 79-1646, 2 vols, vol. i, (London, 1859), facing page 64, Unknown author
*The Davidian Revolution, In Our Time, Radio 4, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0016xty
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