Walter fitz Alan
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Walter FitzAlan was a twelfth-century Anglo-Norman baron who became a Scottish magnate and Steward of Scotland. He was a younger son of Alan fitz Flaad and Avelina de Hesdin. In about 1136, Walter entered into the service of David I, King of Scotland. He became the king's dapifer or steward in about 1150, and served as such for three successive Scottish kings: David, Malcolm IV and William I. In time, the stewardship became hereditarily held by Walter's descendants.
David I, King of Scotland as he is depicted in a mid-twelfth-century royal charter
Walter's charter of Birkenside, Legerwood and Mow from Malcolm IV, King of Scotland
Ruinous Wenlock Priory. Walter appears to have been a devotee of this English Cluniac priory.
An early-twentieth-century depiction of the Siege of Lisbon in 1147. There is reason to suspect that Walter was amongst the Scots who took part in the campaign to liberate Lisbon from the Moors.
David I of Scotland
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David I or Dauíd mac Maíl Choluim was a 12th-century ruler and saint who was Prince of the Cumbrians from 1113 to 1124 and later King of Scotland from 1124 to 1153. The youngest son of 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 of England, by whom he was influenced.
David I of Scotland
William "Rufus", the Red, King of the English, and partial instigator of the Scottish civil war, 1093–1097.
King Henry I of England, drawn by Matthew Paris. Henry's policy in northern Britain and the Irish Sea region essentially made David's political life.
The ruins of Kinloss Abbey in Moray, founded by David in 1150 for a colony of Melrose Cistercians.