Saint Margaret of Scotland

F, (1045 - 16 November 1093)
Father-Biological*Edward the Exile b. 1016, d. 1057
Mother-Biological*Agatha von Braunschweig b. bt 1023 - 1030, d. a 1067
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Last Edited=18 Oct 2022
Saint Margaret of Scotland
     Saint Margaret of Scotland was born in 1045 at Hungary.1,2,3 She was the daughter of Edward the Exile and Agatha von Braunschweig. Saint Margaret of Scotland traveled to the court of Edward the Confessor in 1057. Fter the defeat of Harold Godwinson in 1066, she again went into exile in Scotland.

Saint Margaret of Scotland married Malcolm III Canmore ~ King of the Scots, son of Duncan I MacCrinan , King of the Scots and Suthen, in 1068 at Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.4,2,5,6,7,3,8 Saint Margaret of Scotland died on 16 November 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland.4,9,8,1,2,10,3,6,5,11 She was buried at Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland.3

Compeller's Notes:
Ancestry: There is much debate about the ancestry of Agatha, the mother of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland. The dynastic usurpation and post-invasion trauma of 1066 dictated that St. Margaret's maternal origins were of secondary importance to the English Chroniclers until the marriage of her daughter, Edith-Matilda, to Henry I in 1100. There are two basic solutions, Slavic or Salian. Humphreys (2003) leans towards the Slavic, however I have followed the Salian. Moore (2019) has proved the Salian.7,8

Children of Saint Margaret of Scotland and Malcolm III Canmore ~ King of the Scots

Citations

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  7. Humphreys, William. "Agatha: The Slavic Versus Salic Solutions", Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy volume 1, number 1 (2003).
  8. Moore, Keith. "Agatha, her Ancestry and the Dunfermline Life of St Margaret", Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy Volume 11 (2019).
  9. Guido, Michael Anne. "Who was Malcolm, King of the Cumbrians? - A Study of the Kings of Strathclyde and Cumbria and Their Relationship to King Dubh's Descendants in the Work of Fordun and the Early Chronicles", Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy volume 2, number 3 (January 2007).
  10. Wolf, Armin. "Who was Agatha, the Ancestress of Scottish and English Kings?", Foundations: Journal of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (Jul 2011).
  11. Magnusson, Magnus. Scotland - The Story of a Nation. New York: Atlantic Monthly Pres, 2000.