David I or
Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim (
Modern:
Daibhidh I mac [Mhaoil] 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
Máel 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.