Biography

From < ThePeerage.com >

Malcolm of Scotland was born after 1113.1 He was the son of David I 'the Saint', King of Scotland and Maud of Northumberland.2 He died circa 1114, strangled by Donald Bane, young. 2 (TSP, vol. 1, page 2)

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From < MyLines >

Malcolm MacCrinan [sic: mac Dabid] was born circa 1115. He died after 1115. He was strangled, when a child, by his great-uncle, Donald Bane.1 He was the son of Dabid mac Mail Colaim, rí Alban & Saxan and Maud of Huntingdon.1

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From < Medlands >

DAVID I King of Scotland & his wife Matilda [Maud] of Huntingdon had [five] children:

1. MALCOLM ([1114]-[1116/17]). Orderic Vitalis names “filium...Henricum duasque filias Clariciam et Hodiernam” as the children of David King of Scotland and his wife, but says that “primogenitam eius sobolem masculini sexus” was cruelly murdered by “ferreis digitis” (“the iron fingers”) of “miserabilis clericus”[430]. The primary source which confirms his name has not yet been identified.

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From < Donald III of Scotland > at Wikipedia

Donald III Medieval Gaelic: Domnall mac Donnchada; Modern Gaelic: Dòmhnall mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1032–1099) was King of Alba (Scotland) from 1093–1094 and 1094–1097.[1] He was known as Domnall Bán or "Donald the Fair", anglicized as Donalbain. [Donald Bane]

Donald's fate is not entirely clear. William of Malmesbury tells us that he was "slain by the craftiness of David [the later David I] ... and by the strength of William [Rufus]".[10] The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle says of Donald that he was expelled,[10] while the Annals of Tigernach have him blinded by his brother.[11] John of Fordun, following the king lists, writes that Donald was "blinded, and doomed to eternal imprisonment" by Edgar. The place of his imprisonment was said to be Rescobie, by Forfar, in Angus.[12] The old ex-king would die at the age of 67 in 1099, in prison.

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From Sir Archibald H Dunbar, Bart, Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625 with Notices of the Principal Events Tables of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Calendars, etc., (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1899), Page 42-43 < Archive.Org >

Donald Bane was taken prisoner by his nephew King Eadgar in 1099, and was condemned to perpetual imprisonment, and deprived of his eyesight. It is said, that out of revenge for this treatment, he strangled the elder son of his nephew Earl David.13

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From Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VIII, XXII, p. 402-403 for another version of the story. < Archive.Org >

Warning: it's gruesome in google translate.

Porro primogenitara ejus sobolem masculini sexus ferreis digitis crudeliter peremit quidam miserabilis clericus, qui ob inauditum , quod apud Northwigenas perpetraverat , scelus, oculorum privalione et pedum manuumque praecisione fuerat mulctatus. Hlic enim quemdam sacerdotem, dum missam celebraret, post perceptionem sacramentorum, dum populus recessisset , ingenti cultello iortiter in alvo percussit, et intestinis horribiliter effusis, super aram mactavit. Hic, postmodum a David comite in Anglia pro amore Dei susceptus, et victu vestituque cum filia parvula sufficienter sustentatus, digitis ferreis, quibus utebatur, utpote mancus, biennem filium benefactoris sui quasi mulcere volens , immariiter pupugit, et sic, instigante diabolo, inter manus nutricis viscera lactentis ex insperato etFudit. Prima itaque proles David sic enecata est. Igitur ad caudas quatuor indomitorum equorum innexus est, quibus in diversa valide trahentibus , ad terrorem sceleratorum discerptus est (i).

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References

• https://www.thepeerage.com/p10529.htm#i105287 cites
  • [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 192. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
  • [S323] Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's The Peerage of Scotland (Edinburgh, Scotland: David Douglas, 1904), volume 1, page 3. Hereinafter cited as The Scots Peerage. < Archive.Org >
• https://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cousin/html/p359.htm#i17890 cites
  • [S484] Peter Townend, B:P, (Burke’s Peerage) 105th, Kings of Scotland, pgs. lxx-lxxv.
• https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTLAND.htm#DavidIdied1153B cites
  • [430] Orderic Vitalis (Prévost), Vol. III, Liber VIII, XXII, p. 402-403 < Archive.Org >
  • (i) On pcut croire a la realite de ces evenements, ainsi que de ces enfanls du roi David, quoique les chctifs historiens ecossais conteniporains n'en fassent aucune mention, et ne lui donnent pour lignec que le prince Heuri, qui mourut avant lui en ii52. Lui-menic ful trouve mort dans une attitude de priere, le 24 mai 1 155.
  • (google translate) It was possible to believe in the reality of these events, as well as of these children of King David, although the poor contemporary Scottish historians make no mention of them, and only give him as his lineage Prince Henri, who died before him in 1152. Lui-menic ful found dead in an attitude of prayer, May 24, 1155 [1153]
• Sir Archibald H Dunbar, Bart, Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625 with Notices of the Principal Events Tables of Regnal Years, Pedigrees, Calendars, etc., (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1899), Page 43. < Archive.Org > cites
  • 13. Tighernac, 141, a° 1099 ; Chron. (C), 207 ; Chron. Picts and Scots (D), Picts and Scots (B), 175, No. 20; 289. H. Huntingdon, 230; Fordun, bk. v. 17. Cal. Doc. Scot., i. 449, No. c. 26 ; Wyntoun, ii. 167, bk. ii. c. 2287 ; Wyntoun, ii. 193, bk. vii. c. 7, 3,1.405; 193-195,11. 1235-1296. See 1. 1250; 308, bk. viii. c. 6, 1. 1057, also Orderic Vitalis, iii. 402, 403, bk. etc. viii. c. 22, for another version of the story. < Archive.Org >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orderic_Vitalis Orderic Vitalis (Latin: Ordericus Vitalis; 16 February 1075 – c. 1142) was an English chronicler and Benedictine monk who wrote one of the great contemporary chronicles of 11th- and 12th-century Normandy and Anglo-Norman England.[1] ... Modern historians view him as a reliable source.[1]. Notable work: Historia ecclesiastica (Orderic Vitalis). The Historia Ecclesiastica is usually cited by abbreviation of the author's name rather than the title; that is, either as Ord. Vitalis or Ord. Vit. followed by volume and page numbers.