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MARGARET, ST (c. 1045–1093)

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

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

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