Margaret

   Another name for Margaret was Atheling.

   Ancestral File Number: 9FTX-SR.

  General Notes:

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 unlearned 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.
Ancestors of Margaret from "The Forgotten Monarchy of Scotland" by HRH Michael of Albany.

  Noted events in her life were:

� She worked as a Queen of Scotland.

� She worked as a Princess Of England.

Margaret married King M�el Coluim mac Donnchada, son of Donnchad mac Cr�n�in I King Of Scotland and Sibyl Fitzsiward Queen Of Scotland, in 1060 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. (King M�el Coluim mac Donnchada was born in 1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland, died on 13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, , Northumberland, England and was buried in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland.) The cause of his death was Killed in Battle.

  Marriage Notes:

Dunfermline Abbey