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St. Margaret of Scotland

Female Abt 1050 - 1093  (~ 43 years)


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  • Name Margaret of Scotland  [1
    Prefix St. 
    Birth Abt 1050  [2
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 Nov 1093  Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4, 5
    Burial Church of the Holy Trinity, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3
    Person ID I2483  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2020 

    Father Eadward "The Exile", Prince of England,   b. Between 1016 and 1017   d. 19 Apr 1057, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 41 years) 
    Mother Agatha,   b. Between 1015 and 1035   d. Aft 1067 (Age ~ 53 years) 
    Family ID F5405  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland (Alba),   b. Between 1030 and 1035   d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 63 years) 
    Marriage Between 1068 and 1069  Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 6
    Children 
    +1. Mary of Scotland   d. 18 Apr 1118
    +2. Matilda of Scotland, Queen Consort of England,   b. 1079   d. 1 May 1118, Westminster, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 39 years)
    +3. David I, King of Scotland,   b. Abt 1080   d. 24 May 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 73 years)
    Family ID F3159  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 23 Mar 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Also called Margaret of Wessex; Margaret of England.

      "Saint Margaret of Scotland (c. 1045 - 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called 'The Pearl of Scotland.' Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Aetheling, 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 of 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." [Wikipedia]

  • Sources 
    1. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    2. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.

    3. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    4. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.

    5. [S3209] Ancestor Table: Hansen by Charles M. Hansen. Sausalito, California, 2017.

    6. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.