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ST MARGARET (c. 1045–1093)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 701 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARGARET (c. 1045–1093)  , the queen of Malcolm III . Canmore king of Scotland, was the daughter of the
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English prince
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Edward, son of Edmund Ironside, and
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sister of Edgar fEtheling, and was probably born in Hungary . In 1o67 the widow and children of Edward fled from Northumberland with a large number of followers and sought the
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protection of the Scottish king . The
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marriage of Malcolm and Margaret soon took place and was followed by several invasions of Northumberland by the Scottish king, probably in support of the claims of his
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brother-in-law Edgar . These, however, had little result beyond the devastation of the province . Far more important were the effects of this
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alliance upon the
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history of Scotland . A considerable portion of the old Northumbrian
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kingdom had been reduced by the Scottish kings in the previous century, but up to this time the English population had little influence upon the ruling element of the kingdom . Malcolm's marriage undoubtedly improved the condition of the English to a
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great extent, and under Margaret's sons, Edgar, Alexander I. and David I., the Scottish court practically became anglicized . Margaret died on the 17th of November 1093, four days after her
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husband and her eldest son Edward, who were slain in an invasion of Northumberland . She rebuilt the monastery of
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Iona, and was canonized in 1251 on account of her great benefactions to the Church . See Chronicles of the Picts and Scots (
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Edinburgh, 1867), edited 1876, by W . F .

Skene; and W . F . Skene,
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Celtic Scotland (Edinburgh) .

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