29TH GENERATION

508069454. David Earl of Huntingdon was born in 1144 in Northumberland. He died in 1219. He was also known as David of Scotland. Father of the legendary "Robin Hood", who was actually Robert of Huntingdon. He was married to Maud of Chester in 1189.

508069455. Maud of Chester was born about 1160 in Chester, England. She died after 1200 in Scotland. She was christened in England. Children were:

i. Robert Earl of Huntingdon was born about 1200 in Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, ENGLAND. He died on 24 Dec 1294 in Yorkshire. Robert of Huntingdon - aka Robin Hood: "Let me have length and breadth enough, and under my head a sod; That they may say when I am dead, 'Here lies bold Robin Hood." (Old Eng. ballad) d. 1294. He was buried in Kirklees, Yorkshire, ENGLAND. He was also known as Robin Hood. Said to have been "Roben Heud" or Robin Hood, of Sherwood Forest. Robert,
Earl of Huntington was probably born abt 1200-1210, after the reign of
Richard I, England's Richard the Lionhearted, who had gone on the third
crusade to free Jerusalem in the Holy Land. On his way home from the Holy
Land he is taken captive and held for Ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor,
Henry VI. Richard died in 1199, wounded by an arrow near Limoges, France.
England was then under the rule of of his brother, John Lackland, also
known as "John Soft Sword" then King of England (1199-1216.) During these
years, David of Scotland, son of Malcom III Canmore, was married to Maud
of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof of Northumbria, and now the widow of
Simon de St. Liz, the former Earl of Huntingdon. She inherited the estates
of both Northumberland (from her father), and the earldom of Huntingdon
(from her husband). Maud's new husband, David of Scotland, then became
the Earl of Huntingdon. The earldom of Huntingdon comprised part of
southern Scotland, and part of northern England. David and Maud had a son
who became Henry, Earl of Huntingdon (born 1114). Henry married Ada
Warenne, daughter of Hugh Warenne, Earl of Chester. Their son, David,
became the third Earl of Huntingdon, born in 1144. In 1190, when David
was age 36, he married Maud of Chester, daughter of Hugh Kevelioc, Earl of
Chester. Some time after this their son, Robert was born. His mother,
Maud, was a grand daughter of Simon de Montfort. John, King of England,
known as John Lackland, died of dysentery in 1216, about the time Robert
of Huntingdon was reaching puberty. The king's nine year old son,
Henry then became King of England as Henry III, under the regent of
William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, who, with the moderate party took
control of England. Henry III took control of his throne in 1227. Robert
of Huntingdon's father, David, was brother of Malcom IV, who had succeeded
his grandfather, David I of Scotland, on the Scottish throne. David, Earl
of Huntingdon, became a pawn in the battle for power between England and
Scotland, and he and other barons of Scotland became hostages when King
William of Scotland was captured at the battle of Alnwick. Their brother,
Malcom IV, surrendered the Scottish nobles in exchange for the freedom of
his brother, William. It is not clear just how David, Earl of Huntingdon
died, but he was dead in 1214, when his son, Robert, was still a young
boy. History says Robert lived until 1294, making him live until the ripe
old age of 70 or more, according to the tombstone. (see below). Whether
or not he was the famed Robin Hood, has been the subject of many theories,
stories, myths and legends. Webster's states he was "undoubtedly" a myth,
stemming from early Germanic folk tales. As Robin Hood he is mentioned in
"Piers Plowman" epic poem in 1377, and in following years in a chronicle
of Scotland (1420); Ben Jonson's "Sad Shepherd" (1641); Scott's "Ivanhoe";
and Tennysons' "The Forresters." Robin Hood is also ascribed to a Saxon
knight fighting against the invading Normans. But Robin Hood is also said
to have been "an adherent of the Earl of Lancaster insurrection of a later
Earl Simon de Montfort (1322). And in 1601 Anthony Munday cast him as an
"early Earl of Huntingdon" aka Robin Hood, which may come closest to the
actual fact. Many later fictional accounts place him in the earlier
times, making him a "peer" of Richard The Lionhearted, and living in the
times of King John Lackland, when in fact he was born after Richard died,
and was still a small boy during the time of King John. All of the
stories of Robin Hood are to be discounted as romantic fiction. Robert of
Huntingdon actually lived - and may well have been the source of the
stories of Robin of Locksley. Webster states Robin Hood died in a
Cisterian Nunnery on Christmas Eve of 1294. a tombstone near states
..."hear underneath ids laithl stean/ /las Robert earl of Huntingtun /
neer arcir yer as hie sa geud /and pipl kalled him Roben Heud
/sick utlaws as he an is men /il england nivr si agen /obiit 24
kal Decembris 1247." (Trager's "People Chronology page 108) This is
near KirKlees, "a Yorkshire village on the Calder, 4 miles N. E. of
Huddersfield, Yorkshire." Robin Hood died, it is said, in a Cistercian
nunnery here. (Chamber's Concise Gazetteer) 28.5 miles from Mansfield lies
Cooper Bridge (Three Nuns Inn). To the left is Kirklees, with some
remains of a Cistercian nunnery (incorporated today into a farm) and the
alleged grave of Robin Hood. (Muirhead's "England.) Near Mansfield in
North of Nottingham, Capital city of Yorkshire. The Castle of Nottingham
(House of Mowbray) there are bronze statutes to the memory of Robin Hood
and his men. Fact or Fiction, Robert, Earl of Huntingdon was real. Was He
Robin Hood? His tombstone is real! Whether placed at the time of his
death, or later by someone wanting to perpetuate the myth of Robin Hood?
Will we ever know? Whatever - fact or fiction - Robin Hood is still
fascinating people enough to make new books and movies about his life.
254034727 ii. Margaret of Huntingdon.
iii. Isabella HUNTINGDON was born about 1192 in England. She died in Scotland.
iv. Ada of Huntingdon was born about 1195 in England.