Bethoc of Scotland

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Also called Beatrice, Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim meic Cináeda.

Bethoc married Crinan about 1005. Crinan was born about 975; died in 1045 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Donnchad I mac Crinain; "An t-Ilgarach" ("The Diseased" or "The Sick").

Murdered by Macbeth. Bothirgouane, Bothgouanan is now called Pitgaveny.

Family/Spouse: Suthen. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: 1031
• Alternate birth: Abt 1031

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King of the Cumbrians; King of Scots.

Also called Mael Coluim mac Donnchada.

"In 1057 various chroniclers report the death of Macbeth at Malcolm's hand, on 15 August 1057 at Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire." [Wikipedia]

"He defeated and killed Macbeth, King of Scots at Lunfanen, 15 Aug 1057." [Royal Ancestry]

"MALCOLM III, King of Scots, was killed by Morel of Banborough at Alnwick, Northumberland 13 Nov. 1093. He was initially buried at Tyenmouth, but his son, King Alexander I, later removed his body to Dunfermline, Fife." [Royal Ancestry]

Family/Spouse: Ingibjorg Finnsdottir. Ingibjorg (daughter of Finn Arnesson and Bergljot Halvdansdottir) died before 1058. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Malcolm married St. Margaret of Scotland between 1068 and 1069 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. Margaret (daughter of Eadward "The Exile", Prince of England and Agatha) was born about 1050; died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; was buried in Church of the Holy Trinity, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Also called Domnall III Ban mac Donnchada. Modern Gaelic: Domhnall mac Dhonnchaidh. Nicknamed "Donald the Fair" or "Donald the White" (Medieval Gaelic: "Domnall Ban", anglicised as Donald III Bane/Bain or Donalbane/Donalbain).

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Killed in the battle of Monthechin.

Duncan married Athelreda of Dunbar about 1090. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Eustache III of Boulogne. Eustache (son of Eustache II of Boulogne and St. Ida of Verdun) died after 1125. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

"Although she is usually called Matilda, she was born with the name Eadgyth (Edith), as Orderic Vitalis notes." [The Henry Project]

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Reared at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire but never having taken religious vows, Matilda was the orphaned daughter of Malcolm III (Canmore), king of Scots (d. 1093), and his celebrated queen, the saintly Margaret (d. 1093), and, through Margaret, a direct descendant of Edmund Ironside and the West Saxon kings. Matilda's marriage to Henry would thus have pleased both Scots and Anglo-Saxons. More importantly, however, it reinforced Henry's claim to the throne by providing his children with a direct hereditary link to the old English royal line. The blood of both Alfred and William the Conqueror would flow through them. By an odd chain of circumstances, Matilda was also the god-daughter of Henry's brother, Duke Robert Curthose. [...]

She became a widely admired queen, presiding competently as regent over England during Henry's frequent sojourns in Normandy and, through her patronage, making the English royal court a centre for writers and musicians. She commissioned the writing of a history of England by the monks of Malmesbury Abbey, for example, and thus became a benefactor of the great historian William of Malmesbury. She may also have given her patronage to the unknown writer who produced the first major poem to be written in Anglo-Norman French, the Voyage of St Brendan. Moreover, as a spiritual disciple of Anselm, Matilda used her close relationships with both the archbishop and her royal husband to intervene with some effect in the complex negotiations over lay investiture. The impression conveyed by her letters is that while her love of Anselm was deep and genuine, it was exceeded by her devotion to her husband and his policies.

Matilda married Henry I, King of England on 11 Nov 1100. Henry (son of William I, King of England and Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England) was born in 1068; died on 1 Dec 1135 in Lyon-la-Forêt, near Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Normandy, France; was buried in Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Alternate birth: Abt 1085

Notes:

"David I was driven by a clear and consistent vision, pious and authoritarian, of what his kingdom should be: Catholic, in the sense of conforming to the doctrines and observances of the western church; feudal, in the sense that a lord–vassal relationship, involving knight-service, should form the basis of government; and open, in the sense that external (especially continental) influences of all kinds, religious, military, and economic, were encouraged and exploited to strengthen the Scottish kingdom. Alongside his eclecticism, David's strong sense of the autonomy of his realm and of his own position within it must be acknowledged. The surviving numbers of his charters, compared with those of his predecessors, surely point to an increase in the sophistication, and probably also in the activity, of government. During David's reign the administration of royal justice became more firmly established and was organized more effectively. Those who enjoyed their own courts were told that the king would intervene if they failed to provide justice. The addresses of royal charters and writs (Scottish ‘brieves’) show that from c.1140 justiciars were appointed. Although none is known by name, these officers were clearly the predecessors of the named justiciars of succeeding reigns." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

David married Maud of Northumberland before Jul 1113. Maud (daughter of Waltheof and Judith of Lens) was born about 1072; died between 1130 and 1131; was buried in Scone, Perthshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Uchtred of Tynedale. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]