David I of Scotland only after Henry II ordered David's child successor Máel Coluim IV to hand over the most important of David's gains. It is clear that neither one of these interpretations can be taken without some weight being given to the other. Henry I had arranged his inheritance to pass to his daughter Empress Matilda. Instead, Stephen, younger brother of Theobald II, Count of Blois, seized the throne. David had been the first lay person to take the oath to uphold the succession of Matilda in 1127, and when Stephen was crowned on 22 December 1135, David decided to make war. Before
Bagrat I of Abkhazia Bagrat I of Abkhazia Bagrat I () was the King of Abkhazia between 882 and 894. He was the second son of Demetrius II of the Anchabadze dynasty. After the usurper John Shavliani seized the throne Bagrat fled to Constantinople and lived there for some time until he returned to Abkhazia in 887/888. He deposed and put to death Adarnase Shavliani (the son of John Shavliani) and reclaimed the throne. Then he married to the daughter of Guaram Bagrationi, the ruler of Tao-Klarjeti and had a son Constantine who succeeded him to the throne of Abkhazia. Bagrat supported his brother-in-law,