In 1107 after Edgar had died childless, Alexander, his brother, succeeded and reigned for seventeen years: a man devoted to God in all things, gentle and clement to clerics and religious, but terrible enough to others he had subdued ?, generous around paupers. He augmented the church of Dunfermline, founded by his father and mother, with gifts and possessions. He founded from new three monasteries of the black canons [Augustinians], namely the monastery of Scone and of St Andrew in which there were Culdees before this, and the monastery of the abbot of St Columba 'de Emonia'; and he restored to the canons of St Andrew the 'boar's way' which had been taken away before the time of the Culdees. There this man King Alexander whole in age and senses compared to whom no one was more devoted in ecclesiastical matters, more munificent in foreign affairs, more harsh against malefactors, more accustomed in all goods, repaying the debt of all flesh in 1124 on 24 April, returned his spirit to heaven and was buried at Dunfermline near his father.

Anno Domini Mo c . vij . mortuo sine liberis Edgaro, successit Alexander frater eius, et regnauit xvij annis: vir per omnia Deo deuotus, clericis et religiosis mitis et clemens, sed subditis aliis satis terribilis, circa pauperes liberalis . Ecclesiam de Dunfermlyn a patre et matre fundatam donariis et possessionibus ampliauit . Tria monasteria nigrorum canonicorum fundauit de nouo, scilicet monasterium de Scona et de Sancto Andrea in qua prius erant Kelledei, et monasterium de Emonia Sancti Columbe abbatis; restituitque canonicis Sancti Andree cursum apri prius tempore Kelledeorum ablatum . Iste igitur Alexander rex etate et sensibus integer quo nemo deuocior in ecclesiasticos in extraneos munificentior, in malefactores seuerior, in bonos omnes mansuecior, anno Domini Mo cxxiiij viij kal . Maii . debitum vniuerse carnis persoluens, spiritum celo reddidit, sepultus apud Dunfermlyn prope patrem.