Ada of Scotland

Ada of Huntingdon (born ca.1146 Scotland - died after 1206), by marriage Countess of Holland. Daughter of Henry Earl of Huntingdon (1114-1152) and Ada de Warenne (d. c. 1178). Ada of Scotland married on 28/08/1162 in Egmond presumably (?) With Floris III ("the Crusader"), Count of Holland (c. 1132-1190). They had 8 or 10 children born, of whom some young deceased.

Ada was born the second child of Henry of Huntingdon and Ada de Warenne. After her there were two girls and three boys follow her younger brother Malcolm later became king of Scotland. About the youth of Ada is unknown. Around 1162 the abbot of the monastery went to Scotland where Egmond Floris behalf to ask for her hand. Together, the abbot and Ada traveled back to Holland, where the wedding ceremony - probably in Egmond - occurred. Ada got as a wedding gift to Ross County in the Scottish Highlands.

Ada is probably not actively involved in the governance of the county - it is occasionally mentioned in documents, and is uncommon as a witness or as co-victory switch. Floris Her husband was a loyal ally of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and often went with him into battle. They both came in 1190 during the third crusade. Floris was buried in Antioch. Melis Stoke on Ada states that she supported her son in the war with William of Cleves Aleid Loon during the War of Succession, Ada stayed with Ward Aleid wife of Gelre in Oudorp at Alkmaar. In addition, Ada is known that they could read Latin: in a note in the sixteenth-century book of the monastery Egmond state that they borrowed two Missal. These books which were later without permission from the monastery to have been to Ada's daughter Aleid. Is not clear whether this was or Aleid of Cleves Aleid of Gelre. Ada's son Florian took a few years in the homeland of his mother's work as chancellor of his uncle, the Scottish king.

Ada died after 1206 and was probably buried in the Abbey of Middelburg, which they already had an amount of £ 64 donated. With reference to the parent Floris would later claim the Scottish throne.