Malcolm IV of Scotland

Malcolm IV of Scotland ( Máel Coluim mac Eanric ) called Malcolm IV The Maiden (the young girl) (born the March 20th 1142 - died the December 9th 1165) king d' Écosse of 1153 with was 1165.

Malcolm IV was the oldest son of the count Henry de Northumberland - itself wire and heir to the king David I {{er}} - and of Ada de Warenne. After the untimely death of his/her father, the June 12th 1152, he becomes the heir to the kingdom and succeeds as king his large father the May 24th 1153. It is crowned king with Scone in next June.

In 1157, convened, for a meeting with Chester, it loses the county of Northumberland which is removed to him by the king Henri II of England. This last gives to him in compensation the county of Huntingdon which had also belonged to his/her large father until in 1141. It must then accompany, with his younger brother Guillaume, the king d' Angleterre in France in a campaign against the count de Toulouse.

In Scotland, its court reign is marked by fights against the rebels of the west, in 1160 Fergus de Galloway, then in 1164, laughed Somerled Innse Gall (" King of the Hébrides ").

He dies, unmarried, at 24 years with the castle of Jedburgh the December 9th 1165 and is buried with the abbey of Dunfermline.