Person ID: I5658985337

Margaret Atheling, of Scotland

1045 – 16 NOV 1093

Female

Married: 1068 — Dumfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom

Notes

  • Note: She was Malcolm's second wife. 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 twodaugh ters. 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