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Henry I and the Scottish Kings
The Scottish Kings. The Scottish and English monarchs had fought each other and now the Scots claimed territory as far south as Lancashire. This was the time of the great Scottish king David and it was under him that his nation reached the height of its powers. King Henry thought David so important that it was his biggest ambition that the Scottish monarch should swear an oath of allegiance to England. Under David the Scottish courts became far more sophisticated and according to the chronicler William of Malmesbury ‘rubbed off the tarnish of Scottish barbarism’. In England the battle took place to make a woman monarch. She was Matilda, daughter of Henry I, who would become one of the most famous pretenders to the throne. Her son, Henry would one day become king and it was he that would lead the great invasion of Ireland that began 800 years of struggles between the two nations.
 
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