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This information is assumed correct, but may contain erroneous links. Please don't assume it to be the absolute truth. I've tried to doublecheck most of the work to assure myself of its accuracy...but you cannever be 100% sure. Thank you, and enjoy. Copyrighted but use freely for your self and families Not to be sent to for profit company's on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon: After Earl Simon's [Matilda's 1st husband] death, his Widow married David I of Scotland, who consequently became Earl of Huntingdon too, keepingthe Earldom even after he succeeded his brother as King of Scots. Hesided with the Empress Maud against Stephen I but came to terms with thelatter and made the Earldom over to his son Henry. Henry swore fealty toStephen but subsequently fought against him under the Scottish banner,which may account for Simon de St Liz's son, another Simon, beingrecognized as Earl of Huntingdon before Henry's death in 1152. [Burke'sPeerage] --------------------------------------------------- Henry, son of the said David, King of Scotland, on condition of swearing allegiance to Stephen, had the Earldom and honour of Huntingdon, with theborough of Doncaster and Carlisle as an augmentation thereto. He was insuch high estimation with King Stephen that, upon that monarch's solemncelebration of the feast of Easter, he placed the Earl of Huntingdon onhis right hand, which gave such displeasure to the nobility then presentthat William Corbois, or Corbel, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ranulph, Earlof Chester, and several others withdrew from court. He m. Ada, sister ofWilliam, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue, Malcolm and William,successively Kings of Scotland, David, Ada, m. to Floris, Earl ofHolland, and Margaret, m. to Conan le Petit, Earl of Brittany. The earld. in 1153, a little before his father, and, upon his decease, Simon deSt. Liz, Earl of Northampton, was restored to the Earldom of Huntingdon.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 468, St. Liz, Earls ofHuntingdon] on the history of the Earldom of Huntingdon: After Earl Simon's [Matilda's 1st husband] death, his Widow married David I of Scotland, who consequently became Earl of Huntingdon too, keepingthe Earldom even after he succeeded his brother as King of Scots. Hesided with the Empress Maud against Stephen I but came to terms with thelatter and made the Earldom over to his son Henry. Henry swore fealty toStephen but subsequently fought against him under the Scottish banner,which may account for Simon de St Liz's son, another Simon, beingrecognized as Earl of Huntingdon before Henry's death in 1152. [Burke'sPeerage] --------------------------------------------------- Henry, son of the said David, King of Scotland, on condition of swearing allegiance to Stephen, had the Earldom and honour of Huntingdon, with theborough of Doncaster and Carlisle as an augmentation thereto. He was insuch high estimation with King Stephen that, upon that monarch's solemncelebration of the feast of Easter, he placed the Earl of Huntingdon onhis right hand, which gave such displeasure to the nobility then presentthat William Corbois, or Corbel, Archbishop of Canterbury, Ranulph, Earlof Chester, and several others withdrew from court. He m. Ada, sister ofWilliam, Earl of Warrenne and Surrey, and had issue, Malcolm and William,successively Kings of Scotland, David, Ada, m. to Floris, Earl ofHolland, and Margaret, m. to Conan le Petit, Earl of Brittany. The earld. in 1153, a little before his father, and, upon his decease, Simon deSt. Liz, Earl of Northampton, was restored to the Earldom of Huntingdon.[Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages,Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 468, St. Liz, Earls ofHuntingdon]
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