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See also:MARGARET (1283–1290) , titular See also:queen of See also:Scotland, and generally known as the " maid of See also:Norway," was the daughter of See also:Eric II. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Norway, and Margaret, daughter of See also:Alexander III. king of Scotland. Her See also:mother died soon after Margaret's See also:birth; and in 1284 the estates of Scotland decided that if Alexander died childless the See also:crown should pass to his granddaughter. In See also:March 1286 Alexander was killed and Margaret became queen. The See also:English king See also:Edward I. was closely watching affairs in Scotland, and in 1289 a See also:marriage was arranged between the See also:infant queen and Edward's son, afterwards Edward II. Margaret sailed from Norway and reached the Orkneys, where she died. about the end of See also:September 1290. The See also:news of this occurrence
was first made known in a See also:letter dated the 7th of See also:October 1290. Some See also:mystery, however, surrounded her See also:death, and about 1300 a woman from See also:Leipzig declared she was Queen Margaret. The impostor, if she were such, was burned as a See also:witch at See also:Bergen.
See A. See also:Lang, See also:History of Scotland, vol. i. (See also:Edinburgh, 1904).
End of Article: MARGARET (1283–1290)
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