There's a lot of merit to the idea that scotland was divided into provinces, ruled by morvar which later become earls. But there are also some reasons to also really doubt this as well. Another area in which he seems to have been very active and successful was to do with monasteries. When he cme and went there, there were benedictine monastery. The idea was a bige, a bit as big and as impressive a building as you could and sitteand rule around the place and amass wealth. That's a bit of, a bit of an brutal summary, but it's something like that. Yes.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the impact of David I of Scotland (c1084-1153) on his kingdom and on neighbouring lands. The youngest son of Malcolm III, he was raised in exile in the Anglo-Norman court and became Earl of Huntingdon and Prince of Cumbria before claiming the throne in 1124. He introduced elements of what he had learned in England and, in the next decades, his kingdom saw new burghs, new monasteries, new ways of governing and the arrival of some very influential families, earning him the reputation of The Perfect King.
With
Richard Oram
Professor of Medieval and Environmental History at the University of Stirling
Alice Taylor
Professor of Medieval History at King’s College London
And
Alex Woolf
Senior Lecturer in History at the University of St Andrews
Producer: Simon Tillotson