i would say he's a very good politician, that kind of that that knows the limits of what he's doing. He might have felt that he was too ill. But he did take his second youngest grandson, william, to northumberland to cunne be proclaimed as earl of northumberland there. So he's clearly not that ill. And and that sense, my reading of it, is that he's actually somebody who understands that it would mean more for malcolm to be kand of sent round with the morever of fife, than it would to be sent round by david himself. In our time with melvine bragg is produced by simon till
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