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Administration Place-dates of royal charters to 1296 The practice of adding a date of place (i.e. 'given, datum. at Edinburgh') to written acts or charters authenticated by the king's seal seems to have begun in Scotland early in the twelfth century, possibly as early as the reign of AlexanderI (1107-24). By the later years of David I (1124-53) it was unusual to omit the place-date. A date of time, in the form of the day of the month only, was added from 1195, the year being added about 1222. There are occasional examples oftime-dates (normally indicating the year only) in royal acts from David I's reign onwards, almost certainly supplied by ecclesiastical beneficiaries who were more conscious ofchronology Malcolmill 1057-93 I EDGAR I ALEXANDER I I DAVID I 1107-1124 1124-53 MALCOLM IV 1153-65 Marjorie ROBERTII (1371-90) ROBERTill (1390-1406) JAMES I (1406-37) JAMES 11 (1437-60) JAMESill (1460-88) JAMES IV (1488-1513) JAMES V (1513-42) Earl Henry WILLIAMI (1l65r214) ALEXANDER II (1214-49) ALEXANDER ill (1249-86) Margaret Margaret, Maid of Norway 1286-90 DAVID 11 (1329-71) DAVID, duke of Rothesay, Lieutenant 1399-1402 than their lay contemporaries. Clearly, the provision ofa place-date gives the historian extremely valuable information about the areas and places where king and court were normally located, although a word of caution is necessary in respect of these maps. Firstly, the mappable place-dates are obviously only those recorded in acts whose texts (whether in original or in copy) happen to survive. Secondly, and particularly in the earlier period, the king would tend to be asked for brieves and charters mainly in those parts ofhis realm where this kind of documentation was familiar and in regular use. Margaret DervorguiIla m John Balliol JOHN (1292-96) d.1314 Edward Balliol d.1363 ROBERT, duke of Albany, Lieutenant 1402-6, Governor 1406-20 MURDOCH duke of Albany, Governor 1420-4 JOHN Isabel Genealogical table: Malcolm III to James V 158 GWSB David, earl of Huntingdon Isabel m. Robert Bruce Robert Bruce Robert Bruce, earl of Carrick ROBERT I (1306-29) Rulers who issued acts mapped Others PGBM