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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 52. Chapters: 1153 births, 1153 by country, 1153 deaths, 1153 elections, 1153 establishments, 1153 in Europe, 1153 in law, Conflicts in 1153, Bernard of Clairvaux, Pope Eugene III, Alexios III Angelos, William IX, Count of Poitiers, David I of Scotland, Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne, Anna Komnene, Pelagius of Oviedo, Al-Shahrastani, Alcobaca Monastery, Ranulf de Gernon, 4th Earl of Chester, Walsingham, Our Lady of Walsingham, Henry Murdac, Schontal Abbey, Siege of Ascalon, Piotr W ostowic, Oslo Cathedral School, Papal election, 1153, Gampopa, Nerses of Lambron, List of state leaders in 1153, Petronilla of Aquitaine, Cathal Crobhdearg Ua Conchobair, Olaf I Godredsson, Bernard de Tremelay, Restenneth Priory, Sibylla of Acerra, Waleran de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Warwick, Ptolemy II of Tusculum, Arkazhsky Monastery, Stolpe Abbey, Geras Abbey, Walter Espec, Abu Mohammed Salih, Roger de Beaumont, 2nd Earl of Warwick, Peter II, Viscount of Bearn, Philip of Mahdia, Robert III, Prince of Capua, Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, Taira no Tadamori, Gilbert de Clare, 1st Earl of Hertford, Shaykh Tabresi, Treaty of Constance, Siegfried of Isenburg-Kempenich, Fujiwara no Kanefusa, 1153 in Ireland. Excerpt: David I or Dabid mac Mail Choluim (Modern: Daibhidh I mac Chaluim; 1083 x 1085 - 24 May 1153) was a 12th-century ruler who was Prince of the Cumbrians (1113-1124) and later King of the Scots (1124-1153). The youngest son of Mael Coluim III (Malcolm III) and Margaret of Wessex, David spent most of his childhood in Scotland, but was exiled to England temporarily in 1093. Perhaps after 1100, he became a dependent at the court of King Henry I. There he was influenced by the Norman and Anglo-French culture of the court. When David's brother Alexander I of Scotland died in 1124, David chose, with the backing of Henry I, to take the...