| His name does not appear among the 'Magnates Scotise' who engaged in 1284 to maintain the right of the Princess Margaret to the Crown, but as David 'le Marescal' he was at Brigham in 1289, and with other magnates wrote to the King of England assenting to the marriage of the young Queen of Scotland with Prince Edward of England, and he was one of the barons in the Parliament held there in March 1290. In 1296 David the Marischal presented a petition to Edward I in Parliament, stating that as the King had given him all his heritage in Scotland, he also claims his right to this office from his ancestors by descent, and praying that no person might be preferred to him without the judgment of his peers. The petition was referred by King Edward to his Lieutenant in Scotland to inquire whether the marischalship belonged to David in heritage. Chalmers states that the allusion of the petition was plainly to Robert de Keth, who had been recognised by John Baliol in 1294 as his Marischal, and considers it probable that David's claim was allowed. The date of his death is not known.3 |