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 Abt 1045 - 1093 (48 years)
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| Name |
Margaret "of Scotland" Ætheling |
| Birth |
Abt 1045 |
Castle Reka, Southern Hungary  [1] |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
16 Nov 1093 |
Edinburgh Castle, Scotland [1] |
| Burial |
Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland |
| Person ID |
I8333 |
Bob Juch's Tree |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
| Family |
King of Scots Malcolm III "Canmore" mac Dhonnchaidh, b. Abt 1031, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d. 13 Nov 1093 (Age 62 years) |
| Marriage |
1068 |
Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland [1] |
| Children |
| | 1. Edward mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1069 d. 13 Nov 1093 (Age 24 years) [natural] |
| | 2. King of Scotland Edmund I mac Maíl Coluim, b. Aft 1070 d. Aft 1097, Montacute Abbey, Somerset (Age > 27 years) [natural] |
| | 3. King of Scotland Edgar "Probus" mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1074/1078 d. 8 Jan 1107 (Age 29 years) [natural] |
| | 4. King of Scotland Alexander I "The Fierce" mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1080, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d. 23 Apr 1124, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland (Age 44 years) [natural] |
| | 5. King of Scotland David I "The Saint" mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1083/1085, Scotland d. 24 May 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years) [natural] |
| | 6. Princess of Scotland Mary mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1084, Scotland d. 31 May 1116, Bermonsey Prory, London, England (Age 32 years) [natural] |
| | 7. Princess of Scotland Matilda (Edith) mac Maíl Coluim, b. Abt 1080, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England (Age 38 years) [natural] |
| | 8. Abbot of Dunkeld Æthelred mac Maíl Coluim d. Bef 1098 [natural] |
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| Family ID |
F4414 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
31 Dec 2022 |
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| Notes |
- BIOGRAPHY: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/cgi-bin/gedlkup/n=royal?royal01512
Canonized 1250 and her feast day is 16th November. In 1057 she arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. Ten years later she was in exile after William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings. She fled to Scotland where she was married against her wishes to King Malcolm to whom she bore six sons and two daughters. Her unlearned and boorish husband grew daily more graceful and Christian under the queen's graceful influence. Her remains were removed to Escorial Spain and her head Douai, France.
http://www.talweb.com/redlimey/gene/saxonkings.htm#MARGARET
Queen Margaret, "a saintly and determined young woman," began to strip the old Scottish traditions and ways from society. She brought with her the modern culture of England and the current religious beliefs of the Catholic church. Amoung other things, she imposed all the English religious practices upon the Scottish clergy. She was successful in nearly completely erradicating what little was left of the ancient Celtic and Druidic practices. She also saw to the rebuilding of the Monastery of Iona.
St. Margaret died 16 Nov 1093, three days after her husband was killed in an ambush. Her last words are said to have been a prayer of thanks to God for the pain and sadness which purified her in her last days. Her burial is believed to be at the Monastery of Iona. Although I have found no exact mention of this, I have found referance that all kings (and presumably their queens) were buried here up until it was taken by King Magnus Barelegs of Norway in 1098.
For all her actions and benefactions, she was canonized by the Catholic Church in 1251 and became Saint Margaret.
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- [S211] Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, line 161-8.
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