Malcolm IV
| Malcolm IV | |
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| King of Scots | |
| Reign | 24 May 1153 – 9 December 1165 |
| Coronation | 27 May 1153 |
| Predecessor | David I |
| Successor | William I |
| Born | 23 April 1141 – 24 May 1141 Scotland |
| Died | 9 December 1165 Jedburgh |
| Burial | Dunfermline Abbey |
| House | Dunkeld |
| Father | Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria |
| Mother | Ada de Warenne |
Malcolm IV (Middle Irish: Máel Coluim mac Eanric; Scottish Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Eanraig [ˈmɯːɫ̪ˈxaɫ̪ɯimˈɛnɾɪkʲ]), nicknamed Virgo, "the Maiden" (between 23 April and 24 May 1141 – 9 December 1165), King of Scots, was the eldest son of Henry, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumbria (died 1152) and Ada de Warenne. The original Malcolm Canmore, a name now associated with his great-grandfather Malcolm III (Máel Coluim mac Donnchada), he succeeded his grandfather David I, and shared David's Anglo-Norman tastes.
Called Malcolm the Maiden by later chroniclers, a name which may incorrectly suggest weakness or effeminacy to modern readers, he was noted for his religious zeal and interest in knighthood and warfare. For much of his reign he was in poor health and died unmarried at the age of twenty-four.
Earl Henry, son and heir of King David I of Scotland, had been in poor health throughout the 1140s. He died suddenly on 12 June 1152. His death occurred in either Newcastle or Roxburgh, both located in those areas of Northumbria which he and his father had attached to the Scots crown in the period of English weakness after the death of Henry I of England. Unlike in the case of the English king, who had been left without male heirs after the death of his only son in the Wreck of the White Ship, the King of Scots, David I, did not lack for immediate heirs upon the death of Earl Henry. This was because Earl Henry had left behind three sons to carry forward the lineage of his father.
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