Margaret of Huntingdon (died before 1228) was the eldest daughter of
David, Earl of Huntingdon
David of Scotland (1152 – 17 June 1219) was a Scottish prince and Earl of Huntingdon. He was the grandson of David I and the younger brother of two Scottish kings, Malcolm the Maiden and William the Lion.
Life
Born in 1152, David was the ...
(died 1219) and his wife,
Maud (died 1233), sister of
Ranulf III, Earl of Chester (died 1232), and daughter of
Hugh II, Earl of Chester (died 1181). Margaret was the second wife of
Alan, Lord of Galloway
Alan of Galloway (before 1199 – 1234) was a leading thirteenth-century Scottish magnate. As the hereditary Lord of Galloway and Constable of Scotland, he was one of the most influential men in the Kingdom of Scotland and Irish Sea zone.
Ala ...
(died 1234). She and Alan married in 1209, and had a family of a son and two daughters. The elder daughter, Christiana, married
William de Forz (died 1260). The younger daughter,
Dervorguilla (died 1290), married
John de Balliol, Lord of Barnard Castle (died 1268). Margaret and Alan's son, Thomas—Alan's only
legitimate son—may have lived into the 1220s, but died young.
[ Oram (2004); Oram (2000) p. 126, 141; Stringer (1998) p. 96.]
Margaret had seven siblings, among them: Elizabeth of Huntingdon, wife of Robert of Brus, 4th Lord of Annandale, and therefore ancestor of King Robert I of Scotland; John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, his father's successor, husband of Elen ferch Llywelyn, daughter of Llywelyn the Great, Prince of Gwynedd, with whom she had a daughter, etc.
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1190s births
13th-century Scottish people
House of Dunkeld
Nobility from Dumfries and Galloway
Scottish princesses
13th-century Scottish women
Year of death unknown
Daughters of Scottish earls
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