ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Alba's Normans on the map, literally, by means of the illustrative maps presented. It offers a detailed picture of the high-level Norman influx into what is now east-central Scotland that occurred under the Normanising Scottish kings David I, Malcolm IV and the William I. The chapter deals first with the context of the maps, then with their methodology, and finally with their significance for enhancing our understanding of what was going on in this part of the Norman Edge. Thus, within the northernmost section of the Norman Edge the main expansionist trend was southwards from Alba rather than northwards from the England. But that applies only to the kings and kingdoms, because, though William the Conqueror may have found nothing that he was any the better for north of the Tweed, numerous Norman knights found otherwise, albeit not through the military conquest.
