Timeline of Edinburgh History - Twelfth Century

Twelfth Century

c.1110: St Margaret's Chapel, Edinburgh's oldest building, built at Edinburgh Castle

1114: Infant Scottish heir Malcolm is murdered by a priest

1124 or 1127: First documentary evidence of a "church of the community or burgh of Edin"

c.1128: David I founds Holyrood Abbey

c.1130: David I founds the burgh

1162: Edinburgh is the caput of the Lothian sheriffdom