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]

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