NameMalcolm III Canmore
Birth Date1031
Death Date13 Nov 1093 Age: 62
Death PlaceBattle of Alnwick
OccupationKing of Scotland
Spouses
Birth Date1045
Birth PlaceHungria (en el exilio)
Death Date16 Nov 1093 Age: 48
Notes for Malcolm III Canmore
http://hometown.aol.com/ttrim36387/douglas.htmlhttp://www.royal.gov.uk/history/scotland/early.htmhttp://www.scotsheritage.co.uk/Timeline/Timeline2.htm -exerpts:
1057 With the help of Siward, Earl of Northumbria, Malcolm III (nicknamed Canmore or " Big Head "), son of Duncan, recovered his father's throne, slaying Macbeth in battle at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire.
1070 Malcolm III married the English princess Margaret (St. Margaret), who had taken refuge in Scotland from the Normans. Under the queen's influence Malcolm anglicised his court and the Celtic Church.
1092 Malcolm also made war against the Normans in support of Margaret's brother Edgar, the Aetheling or heir to the throne of England. Scotland lost Cumberland through the fortification of Carlisle by William Rufus.
1093 Malcolm III fell in battle near Alnwick. His death was followed by four years' Celtic reaction against his anglicising policy.
The Annals of Ulster for 1093 say, "Maelcolaim Mac Donnacha sovereign of Alban and Echbarda his son, slain by the Franks. His queen, viz. Margarita, died through grief before the end of (three) days."
http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/atoc/canmore.htmlpor algunas lineas de descendencia
Notes for Margaret (Spouse 1)
Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as
Margaret of Wessex and
Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an
English princess of the
House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of
Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned
Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the
Kingdom of Scotland following the
Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married
Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming his
queen consort. She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the
Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to
Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of
South Queensferry and
North Queensferry their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland and a queen consort of England. According to the
Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to
Turgot of Durham, she died at
Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was
canonised by
Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the
Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotlandhttp://hometown.aol.com/ttrim36387/douglas.htmlHoly Rood. A relic of the True Cross, also known as the Black Rood of Scotland, which was brought to Scotland by Queen Margaret, wife of King Malcolm, and guarded by William ``the Seemly'' St. Clair (1028-1070). Both, Holyrood House and Holyrood Abbey, both in Edinburgh, were built to house it. Rumor has it that during the Reformation it was hidden in Rosslyn Chapel.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09655c.htmhttp://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa/margaret.html
Notes for Ingibjorg (Spouse 2)
Malcolm’s first wife was Ingibiorg, daughter of Finn Arnesson, Jarl of Holland, and by her he had nine children including Duncan II King of Scots, born in 1060 and murdered in 1094. Duncan had married in 1090 Ethelreda, daughter of Gospatrick Earl of Northumberland.
The
Orkneyinga saga reports that Malcolm married the widow of Thorfinn Sigurdsson,
Ingibiorg, a daughter of
Finn Arnesson.
[34] Although Ingibiorg is generally assumed to have died shortly before 1070, it is possible that she died much earlier, around 1058.
[35] The
Orkneyinga Saga records that Malcolm and Ingibiorg had a son,
Duncan II (Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim), who was later king.
[5] Some Medieval commentators, following
William of Malmesbury, claimed that Duncan was illegitimate, but this claim is propaganda reflecting the need of Malcolm's descendants by Margaret to undermine the claims of Duncan's descendants, the
Meic Uilleim.
[36] Malcolm's son Domnall, whose death is reported in 1085, is not mentioned by the author of the
Orkneyinga Saga. He is assumed to have been born to Ingibiorg.
[37]Malcolm's marriage to Ingibiorg secured him peace in the north and west. The
Heimskringla tells that her father Finn had been an adviser to
Harald Hardraade and, after falling out with Harald, was then made an Earl by
Sweyn Estridsson,
King of Denmark, which may have been another recommendation for the match.
[38] Malcolm enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the
Earldom of Orkney, ruled jointly by his stepsons,
Paul and Erlend Thorfinnsson. The
Orkneyinga Saga reports strife with Norway but this is probably misplaced as it associates this with
Magnus Barefoot, who became king of Norway only in 1093, the year of Malcolm's death.
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