MARGARET (1283–1290)  , titular queen of Scotland, and generally known as the " maid of Norway," was the daughter of Eric II. king of Norway, and Margaret, daughter of Alexander III. king of Scotland . Her mother died soon after Margaret's birth; and in 1284 the estates of Scotland decided that if Alexander died childless the crown should pass to his granddaughter . In March 1286 Alexander was killed and Margaret became queen . The English king Edward I. was closely watching affairs in Scotland, and in 1289 a marriage was arranged between the infant queen and Edward's son, afterwards Edward II . Margaret sailed from Norway and reached the Orkneys, where she died. about the end of September 1290 . The news of this occurrence was first made known in a letter dated the 7th of October 1290 . Some mystery, however, surrounded her death, and about 1300 a woman from Leipzig declared she was Queen Margaret . The impostor, if she were such, was burned as a witch at Bergen . See A . Lang, History of Scotland, vol. i . (Edinburgh, 1904) .