| 183977 | i. | Gwenllian Norris, born Abt. 1357; died Unknown; married Philip Ap Morgan. |
| i. | Donald III Ban King Of Scotland, died 1097. |
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More About Donald III Ban King Of Scotland: AKA (Facts Pg): Donald D'Ecosse Reign 1: Bet. 1093 - 1094, King of Scots, deposed by Duncan II925 Reign 2: Bet. 1094 - 1097, King of Scots, restored |
| ii. | Beatrix Of Scotland Princess Of Scotland, died Unknown; married Bartholomew De Leslie; born in Hungary; died 1121 in of Lesslyn, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. |
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More About Bartholomew De Leslie: Ethnicity: Sometimes reported to be Flemish. Forename Variant: Bartolf Lineage: Ancestor of the Leslie family Migration: 1067, To Scotland with the future Queen Margaret. Political 1: Chamberlain to the future Queen Margaret. Political 2: given lands in Lesslyn, Aberdeenshire |
| iii. | Malcolm III Canmore King Of Scotland, born Abt. 1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland; died 13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England926; married (1) Agatha Yaroslavna Of Russia; died Unknown; married (2) Ermengarde Of Norway; died Unknown; married (4) Ingibjorg Finnsdottir Abt. 1060; born Abt. 1026 in of Orkney; died 1069; married (5) Margaret Atheling Queen Of Scotland 1068 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland; born Abt. 1045 in Wessex, England, or Hungary; died 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinbourgh, Midlothian, Scotland. |
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Notes for Malcolm III Canmore King Of Scotland: Malcolm III fled to England when the Scott throne was usurped by Macbeth. He recovered southern Scotland and killed Macbeth in battle in 1057. He himself was killed in battle at Alnwick while invading Northumberland.---"Dictionary of Biography" page 433 |
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More About Malcolm III Canmore King Of Scotland: AKA (Facts Pg): the Canmore=bighead Cause of Death: killed by English at Alnwick Reign: Bet. 1058 - 1093, King of Scots927 |
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Notes for Margaret Atheling Queen Of Scotland: ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND Many say Margaret of Scotland ruled with "consistent humility and kindness," and that she was "one of the most remarkable monarchs in medieval Europe" ("Saint Margaret of Scotland" by Euah Macpherson,6, 24-25, 49. Mar/Apr 1999 The Highlander magazine, Vol 37, No. 2) Her day is November 16th Margaret was born about 1045 in Hungary, while her English royal family was exiled. Margaret's grandfather was Edmund Ironsides, the English king. Her father should have been his (Edmund's) heir but Danish king, Canute, had other ideas. Her father flee to Europe to escape sure death and he was called Edward the Aetheling ("Claimant") since he still claimed the English throne. It is said that Margaret wished to be a nun as a young girl. Edward returned to his homeland in 1057, but when the Normans invaded England, in 1066, Margaret had to flee again, this time to Scotland. Margaret's brother, Edgar, fought to oppose the Conqueror as King of England. Margaret's family was about all that remained of the Old English royal family and they were a threat to William the Conqueror's regime. In Scotland now, Margaret won the heart of Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm III). He found her to be both intelligent and beautiful. No one knows if she returned these feelings, but they married even though Malcolm wass 11 years older, not very well educated, or religious. Margaret was to be Queen of Scotland, and her children would be the rightful heirs to the thrones of both England and Scotland. The Conqueror was not happy with this match and Malcolm and Scotland were both in jeopardy. Malcolm married Margaret at Dunfermline in 1070, a union of opposites. Margaret tempered the brutish man and he was said to have truly loved her. Her fault was the lack of understanding of Druidic/Pagan beliefs that existed in Scotland. She was a devout Christian. During her time, Celtic saints such as St. Columba, Saint Kertogern, and St. Ninian were revered. Margaret worshipped St. Andrew, a Roman saint. And today St. Andrew is Scotland's patron saint. Malcolm and Margaret turned the fort at Edinburgh into a royal castle. Margaret introduced spiced meat and French wine to the Scottish Court. She also insisted on good table manners and saying grace before meals. Margaret helped restore the abbey at Iona, founded by St. Columba, but also founded Dunfermline Abbey as the new burial place for Scottish kings. Margaret lay ill in bed in Edinburgh Castle (near death) while Malcolm invaded England. When she was delivered the news that King Malcolm had died at the Battle of Alnwick, she lost heart and died. The tiny church called St. Margaret's chapel is associated with the memory of the Queen. Margaret was recognized as a saint in 1250 (more than 150 years after her death). Her shrine and relics were installed at Dunfermline on June 19, 1250. The irony of this is I was named after Margaret and I was born on June 19th (Macpherson). ---http://pages.hotbot.com/family/grieveO/table.html Canonised 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 unlerned 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.||| Notes Traditionally, she is shown as the dau of Agatha, dau Brunon von Bayern, but a convincing new theory by Rene Jette has her mother as Agnes, dau Prince Yaroslav of Kiev. ---Randy Jones at Charlotte's Webb||| ST. MARGARET QUEEN OF SCOTLAND David McRoberts at website: Eternal Word Television Network, 5817 Old Leeds Road, Irondale, AL 35210 ...Scotland as part of the Continent and comity of Europe could not escape this renaissance and, by the providence of God, the coming of this revival and the shaping of all our future religious and social history was wrought by an exiled Saxon princess, whom Scotsmen have honoured ever since, as a great Queen and patroness—Saint Margaret. In her life story we can see all the new European ideals of religion, manners and polity being propagated and finding acceptance in Scotland. When the reigns of Margaret's husband and sons have passed, the face of Scotland has changed, no longer a shadowy, misty land, turbulent with war, but a prosperous and peaceful kingdom taking its place as an equal in the commonwealth of nations that was mediaeval Christendom. During the Dark Ages the country now known as England passed through a succession of invasions, feuds and dynastic wars similar to what had befallen Scotland. At the beginning of the eleventh century we find the throne of England occupied by a Danish conqueror and the legitimate Saxon heirs to the throne—the Aethelings—sojourning in exile in far off Hungary. The Hungarians, hitherto a savage barbarian race from Asia, had but recently been converted to the Faith and, under their first king, St. Stephen I, had begun their history as a European nation, which has at all times been characterised by their intense loyalty to the Catholic Faith and the Apostolic See of Rome. The royal exiles from England were well-received at the court of St. Stephen: one of them, Eadward, married Agatha, a princess of the Hungarian royal house and their marriage was blessed with three children; Eadgar, the eldest; Margaret, who was born in 1046 and was destined to be Queen of Scotland; and Christina, who later became abbess of Romsey in England. The Aetheling family apparently resided at the castle of Nádasd in southern Hungary. All about them was the flood tide of enthusiasm of the newly converted court and kingdom for the Catholic Faith and the See of Rome, and herein we readily see a powerful factor in the formation of the queen, who was to impart fresh vigour to the decadent and war-weary church in the Scottish kingdom and direct its growth more comformably to the universal life of western Christendom. A change came in the fortunes of the exiled Aethling family when Margaret came to be about ten years of age. King Eadward the Confessor, advancing in years, was concerning himself about a successor to the English throne. He had no children, and the presence of several claimants, Saxon and Norman, seemed to provide the requisite elements for another fierce war of succession. The legitimate heir to the throne was Eadward Aetheling, Margaret's father; he was invited by the Confessor to return to England. In 1057 the little family set out from Nádasd to return to their native land; Eadward, his wife Agatha, their three children, Eadgar, Margaret and Christina, together with some Hungarian nobles. Tragedy greeted their arrival in England; scarcely had they set foot in that kingdom when Eadward suddenly died. The Confessor received the grief-stricken widow and the orphan children into his protection. The boy Eadgar was now next in succession to the throne. In one member at least of the little family the aging king must have found a kindred spirit—the ten-year-old girl. Though the chronicles are silent on these nine most impressionable years which Margaret spent at the Confessor's court, we can at least guess the influences which at that time moulded the character of the girl as she grew to womanhood. Here once again she found herself in the midst of the new flowering of intellect and spirit which was renewing Europe. Politically and culturally the court of the Confessor was a Norman-French court where all the new fashions and ideals of chivalry, art, scholarship and reawakened religious fervour were reshaping the destiny of England. The spirit of that revival found its highest expression in the life of the king himself; he was now entering the last phase of his long, peaceful reign; the little girl at his court could not but have been interested in the Abbey of St. Peter at Westminster which was then a-building, could not but have been impressed by the king's scholarship, his fervent piety, and his splendid generosity to the church and the poor.2 In 1066 King Eadward the Confessor died and was laid to rest in his Abbey of Westminster. There came the inevitable clash between Saxon and Norman claimants to the throne. Duke William of Normandy was victorious, and in the tumult Eadgar Aethling was set aside; he seems to have lacked the vigourous character necessary for a ruler in that martial age. In the spring of the year 1067 Eadgar set sail with his mother, Agatha "The Hungarian," and his sisters, Margaret and Christina, intending to return to their home in Hungary. Foul winds and tempestuous seas buffeted their ship, drove them up the North Sea till finally they turned into the sheltered waters of Firth of Forth and dropped anchor in that little bay which ever since has born the name of St. Margaret's Hope. Close at hand lay the little town of Dunfermline, which was at the time the capital of King Malcolm's domains. The events of the next few years are full of violence and obscurity. Malcolm welcomed the strangers and apparently made common cause with Eadgar against the new regime in England, for the chroniclers relate stories of forays and sieges that reduced northern England to desolation. Malcolm III, King of Scotland (Ceannmor, or Great Head, as his subjects called him) is described in the English chronicles as a savage and pitiless warrior. Native chroniclers give what is perhaps a more equitable judgment on his character: the Prophesy of St. Berchan acclaims him as "A King the best that Alban ever had"; St. Ailred of Rievaulx, a contemporary, declares "he was a king very humble in heart, bold in spirit, exceeding strong in bodily strength, daring, though not rash, and endowed with many other good qualities . . . . . . During the first nine years of his reign, until the arrival of William the Norman, he maintained security of peace and fellowship with the English." He seems to have been a king eminently suited to the turbulent era in which his life was set. A brave warrior, a strong ruler, who extended and consolidated his kingdom and had its prosperity very much at heart. Though ruthless in war, he apparently had a magnanimous character and a natural gift for leadership, as is seen in the story related by Abbot Ailred: how Malcolm, learning that one of his nobles plotted his life, invited the man to a hunt, where he led him out of sight of everyone and confronted him with the treachery: "You desire my death: as a knight you must prefer manly combat to murder and treason; we are alone equally armed, you are at liberty to attack now." The man fell at his feet, promised loyalty and kept his promise. Malcolm cannot have been the ruthless, ignorant barbarian of school history books; as an intelligent man he must have been considerably influenced during his fourteen years exile at the Confessor's Norman court by the new ideals of learning, chivalry and religion which were then sweeping the continent of Europe. Still, to the eyes of the Saxon exiles, accustomed to the more refined atmosphere of the English court where the saintly Confessor had just died, or the court of Hungary where the faith was fresh and untainted and the luxurious wares of Byzantium commonplace amenities, the little royal castle at Dunfermline must have appeared provincial and barbarian enough and Malcolm the king as uncouth as his strange-tongued warrior courtiers. With no small trepidation then they must have learned that Malcolm sought the hand of the princess Margaret in marriage. Margaret had by now grown to womanhood; she was of uncommon beauty, charm and intelligence; her early training at the court of St. Stephen, in close touch with the traditions of Byzantium, and later at the court of St. Eadward, in closer contact still with the new intellectual brilliance of Cluniac Normandy, had but served to enhance her natural qualities; she was wise, scholarly and a saint. At first Margaret refused; she pleaded her desire to enter the cloister. Malcolm urged that such a union of the Celtic and Saxon royal houses had already been arranged by her great-uncle the Confessor. Apparently a year or two passed; Margaret's inclination towards the peaceful happiness of the cloister was finally overcome by the insistence of the king and the acquiescence of her own family, who as exiles were very much in the power of their host. The marriage was agreed upon and, no matter how reluctantly Margaret may have viewed the union, it was to prove a singularly happy match, not only for Malcolm and his people, but for the whole future of Scotland.||| In the year 1070 the two were married at Dunfermline by Fothad the Bishop of St. Andrews; Malcolm was probably about forty years of age and Margaret about twenty-three years. For another twenty-three years Margaret was to be the wise counsellor and helper of Malcolm...---http://www.ewtn.com/library/MARY/STMARG.htm||| The Catholic Encyclopedia St. Margaret of Scotland Born about 1045, died 16 Nov., 1092, was a daughter of Edward "Outremere", or "the Exile", by Agatha, kinswoman of Gisela, the wife of St. Stephen of Hungary. She was the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside. A constant tradition asserts that Margaret's father and his brother Edmund were sent to Hungary for safety during the reign of Canute, but no record of the fact has been found in that country. The date of Margaret's birth cannot be ascertained with accuracy, but it must have been between the years 1038, when St. Stephen died, and 1057, when her father returned to England. It appears that Margaret came with him on that occasion and, on his death and the conquest of England by the Normans, her mother Agatha decided to return to the Continent. A storm however drove their ship to Scotland, where Malcolm III received the party under his protection, subsequently taking Margaret to wife. This event had been delayed for a while by Margaret's desire to entire religion, but it took place some time between 1067 and 1070. In her position as queen, all Margaret's great influence was thrown into the cause of religion and piety. A synod was held, and among the special reforms instituted the most important were the regulation of the Lenten fast, observance of the Easter communion, and the removal of certain abuses concerning marriage within the prohibited degrees. Her private life was given up to constant prayer and practices of piety. She founded several churches, including the Abbey of Dunfermline, built to enshrine her greatest treasure, a relic of the true Cross. Her book of the Gospels, richly adorned with jewels, which one day dropped into a river and was according to legend miraculously recovered, is now in the Bodleian library at Oxford. She foretold the day of her death, which took place at Edinburgh on 16 Nov., 1093, her body being buried before the high altar at Dunfermline. In 1250 Margaret was canonized by Innocent IV, and her relics were translated on 19 June, 1259, to a new shrine, the base of which is still visible beyond the modern east wall of the restored church. At the Reformation her head passed into the possession of Mary Queen of Scots, and later was secured by the Jesuits at Douai, where it is believed to have perished during the French Revolution. According to George Conn, "De duplici statu religionis apud Scots" (Rome, 1628), the rest of the relics, together with those of Malcolm, were acquired by Philip II of Spain, and placed in two urns in the Escorial. When, however, Bishop Gillies of Edinburgh applied through Pius IX for their restoration to Scotland, they could not be found. The chief authority for Margaret's life is the contemporary biography printed in "Acta SS.", II, June, 320. Its authorship has been ascribed to Turgot, the saint's confessor, a monk of Durham and later Archbishop of St. Andrews, and also to Theodoric, a somewhat obscure monk; but in spite of much controversy the point remains quite unsettled. The feast of St. Margaret is now observed by the whole Church on 10 June. Acta SS., II, June, 320; CAPGRAVE, Nova Legenda Angliae (London, 1515), 225; WILLIAM OF MALMESBURY, Gesta Regum in P.L., CLXXIX, also in Rolls Series, ed. STUBBS (London, 1887-9); CHALLONER, Britannia Sancta, I (London, 1745), 358; BUTLER, Lives of the Saints, 10 June; STANTON, Menology of England and Wales (London, 1887), 544; FORBES-LEITH, Life of St. Margaret. . . (London, 1885); MADAN, The Evangelistarium of St. Margaret in Academy (1887); BELLESHEIM, History of the Catholic Church in Scotland, tr. Blair, III (Edinburgh, 1890), 241-63. G. ROGER HUDDLESTON Transcribed by Anita G. Gorman The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume IX Copyright © 1910 by Robert Appleton Company Online Edition Copyright © 1999 by Kevin Knight Nihil Obstat, October 1, 1910. Remy Lafort, Censor Imprimatur. +John M. Farley, Archbishop of New York||| |
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More About Margaret Atheling Queen Of Scotland: AKA (Facts Pg): Margaret The Exile Burial: Unknown, Dunferline, Fife, Scotland Cannonized: 1251, By Pope Innocent IV928 |
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More About Malcolm King Of Scotland and Margaret Queen Of Scotland: Marriage: 1068, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland |
| 196608 | iv. | Melmare Of Scotland Prince Of Scotland, born Bef. 1040 in of Atholl; died Unknown. |
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