Matilda of Huntingdon ^{3 4 5 6}

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MATILDA [Matilda] of Huntingdon ([1071/74]-[23 Apr 1130/22 Apr 1131], bur Scone Abbey, Perthshire). Ingulph's Chronicle of the Abbey of Croyland records the marriage of Matilda eldest daughter of Judith and "Earl Simon. Guillaume de Jumièges records that the eldest of the three daughters of Waltheof & his wife married "Simon de Senlis" and later "David frère de la seconde Mathilde reine des Anglais". Her parents are named by Orderic Vitalis. Robert of Torigny records that the wife of "David [rex Scotiæ] frater [Alexandri]" was "filiam Gallevi comitis et Judith consobrini regis", naming "Symon Silvanectensis comes" as her first husband. "Matilde comitisse, Henrico filio comitis…" witnessed the charter dated to [1120] under which "David comes filius Malcolmi Regis Scottorum" founded the abbey of Selkirk. "Matildis comitissa…" witnessed inquisitions by "David…Cumbrensis regionis princeps", dated 1124, concerning land owned by the church of Glasgow.

m firstly ([1090]) SIMON de Senlis [St Lis], son of [RANULF "the Rich" & his wife --- (-Priory of La Charité-sur-Loire 1111). Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton de iure uxoris.

m secondly (1113) DAVID of Scotland Prince of Cumbria, son of MALCOLM III "Caennmor/Bighead" King of Scotland & his wife Margaret of England ([1080]-Carlisle 24 May 1153, bur Dunfermline Abbey, Fife). Earl of Northampton and Huntingdon de iure uxoris. He succeeded his brother in 1124 as DAVID I King of Scotland.

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He [Simon de St Liz] married, perhaps as early as 1090 when she would be aged about 18, Maud, eldest daughter of Waltheof, EARL OF HUNTINGDON and NORTHAMPTON, by Judith, niece of William I. He died, as aforesaid, at La Charité presumably in 1111 or shortly afterwards. His widow married DAVID I of Scotland.

[Complete Peerage VI:640-1]

Matilda married Simon [I] de Senlis 2nd Earl of Huntingdon & Northampton, son of Ranoul de Senlis and Unknown, about 1090.^{1 2 3} (Simon [I] de Senlis 2nd Earl of Huntingdon & Northampton died in 1111 in Prieuré de La Charité, La Charité-sur-Loire, Nièvre, Bourgogne, FR ^{1 2 7} and was buried in Prieuré de La Charité, La Charité-sur-Loire, Nièvre, Bourgogne, FR ¹.)

Matilda next married Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim Dunkeld King David I of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada Dunkeld King Malcolm III of Scotland and Margaret of England, in 1113.^{1 2} (Dabíd mac Maíl Choluim Dunkeld King David I of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon was born about 1084,^{6 8} died on 24 May 1153 in Carlisle, Cumbria, CA1, GB ^{6 8} and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, KY11, GB.)