lexander I, 1078?-1124, king of Scotland (1107-24),
son of Malcolm III and St. Margaret of Scotland. He succeeded his
brother Edgar, who had divided the kingdom so that Alexander
ruled only N of the Forth and the Clyde. Early in his reign he
decisively quelled an uprising in N Scotland. Alexander
encouraged, as his mother had, ecclesiastical conformity with
English ways and established several monasteries, including the
abbeys at Inchcolm and Scone. He opposed, however, the efforts of
the English hierarchy to rule the Church in Scotland. [The
Illustrated Columbia Encyclopedia, 1969]
Came to the throne in 1106. While he reigned over Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde, his brother David, who had been trained in England and was Earl of Northumberland, ruled with the title of Earl in Lothian and Cumbria. [GADD.GED]