He was the grandson of David I and the younger brother of two Scottish kings, Malcolm the Maiden and William the Lion.
Born in 1152,[1] David was the youngest surviving son of Henry of Scotland, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon and Ada de Warenne,[2] a daughter of William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, and Elizabeth of Vermandois.
The same year he endowed Lindores Abbey in Fife and a church dedicated to St Mary in Dundee.
John of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon (1207 – 6 June 1237),[5] married Elen ferch Llywelyn.
Henry of Huntingdon (died young) Earl David also had three illegitimate children:[6] After the extinction of the senior line of the Scottish royal house in 1290, when the legitimate line of William the Lion of Scotland ended, David's descendants were the prime candidates for the throne.
For the majority of the novel, Earl David operates under an alias: Sir Kenneth of the Couchant Leopard.