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HUNTINGDON. 283 NORTHAMPTON, and, in or after 1084, m. Maud, 1st da. and coheir of the said Waltbenf and Judith, bis wife. He built the oistle and founds 1 the monastery of St. Andrew'* at Northampton. He was a Orasader, He d, before 1109 at the Vbbey of La Charite-gur- Loire, in France. Hill /• David OP Scotland, Gtl) and >X. s. of Malcolm HI., King of Sc itlamb (1058-08 , by Margaret, only sister of Edgar Athehng (da. of Edward, s. and h. of Edmund •' /ma-id-," King of Englikd), was b. about 10*0 and baring w. about 110:) Maud, Dow.' Countess of Huntingdon and Nuuriu.MiToN, next above:) imed, was recognise 1 by King Henry L as HAUL OP HUNTIN(3DON.(-J He became 25 A|.ril 1 121 (on the death of his br., Alexander I.), KING OF SCOTLAND, and subsequently, about Match 113d, by agreement with .Stephen, King of England, nsiyucd litis Earldom in favour of his son, Henry, hereafter mentioned. He, who was usually called "Si, &a»id," d. 24 Mav 1153, iu the 30th year of his reign and was bur. at Dunfermline. IV. 11361 .?. Henry (of Scotland), Karl of Huntingdon, only to b. and b. ap., h. II 10 ; sue to that Earldom by resignation of his 1 152. father about 1186 as aboveuamed ; he was made Governor of Xorthumbiia. 9 April 1 1 3D, whence he is sometimes Killed KARL OP NORTHUMBERLAND. He m. in 1133 Adeline, da. of William (dk Warbnnb), Earl of Sukbev, by Isabel, da. of Hugh, Coust of Vkii ianduis. He (/■ v.p. 12 June 1152, at Calone, and was bur. there. His widow & 1178. V. 1 152, J. Simon (.Saint Lis, or Seslis), Earl of Xortiiamp- to ton, was recognised by King Stephen (whose cause he had always 11153. supported) on Earl Henry's death, as EARL OF HUNTINGDON, he being s. and b. of Simon, Gaul of HUNTINGDON and Noiitii- aupton, by J udith, his wife, both aboveuamed. He bad, however, beeu (fUpcttated about 1109 at his father's death (when he was an infant) of the Earldom of Huntingdon (tho' al'oucd before 1141 Ih " of Hfort&Wkpton) in favour of his step- father, Earl David, aboveuamed. He founded the Abbey of Saltrey, co. Huntn. and the nunnery of Delapre, co. Northampton. He m. Isabel, da. of Robert (Beaumont), Earl of Leicester, by Amiuia, da. of Ralph (dic Waeii). Earl of Norfolk. He A. Aug. 1153 and w.is bar. at St. Andrew's Priory. Northampton.;) His widow i». Gervase Paganell. Eustace, Count of Boulogne, s. and h. ap. of Stephen, Knra of England, by Matilda, da. and h. of Eustace, Count of BOULOGNE, b. about 1131 is said to have been cr. EARL OF HUNTINGDON by his father in 1188. He m. Feb. 1I-J0, Constance, da. of Louis VI., Kino of FRANCE, by Adelaide de Mauuibnne, of Savoy. He d. v.p. and s.p. 16 Aug. 1153. His widow in. Raymond, Count of Toulouse. VI. 1157. 3. Malcolm, Kino of Scotland (called Ibe Maiden), s. and h. of Henry, Eaul of Huntingdon abovenamed, was b. about 11 JO; euc. his grandfather, King David I., as King of Scotland, 24 May 1153. and having resigned to England his right to Northumberland, Cumberland, and West- morland (which districts were, however, subsequently restored) was confirmed by King Henry II. in his father's title as EARL OF HON I'lNGDON and was knighted by him at Tours 1159. He d. num. 9 Dec. 1165, (') " David, Earl of Huntingdon, is said by a contemporary chronicler (Cotton MS Domitian IX.) to have been Earl of Northampton after the death of Simon de St Liz; but although he married Simon's widow he appears only to have had the Earldom of Huntingdon." See " Courthope," sh'-i " Northampton." ( b ) "He was a man forward in promises— slow in performances." (Honry of Huntingdon's " Uist. Any!.")