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St. Margaret of England

Female 1043 - 1093  (50 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Margaret of England 
    Prefix St. 
    Birth 1043  Magyarország Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Death 16 Nov 1093  Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Burial Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 1 Sibling 
    Person ID I6477  Geneagraphie | Voorouders HW, Ahnen BvS
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

    Father Edward "Atheling" of England,   b. 1016   d. 1057, London, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years) 
    Mother Agatha von Braunschweig,   b. 1025   d. 1066 (Age 41 years) 
    Family ID F2907  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family King Malcolm III of Scotland, 'Canmore',   b. Abt 1031, Scone Abbey, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 1068  Dunfermline Abbey, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
    +1. Mary of Scotland,   b. Abt 1084   d. 31 May 1116 (Age 32 years)
     2. Edward of Scotland   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. King Edmund I of Scotland   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Edgar of Scotland,   b. 1074   d. 8 Jan 1107, Craigmillar Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 33 years)
    +5. King Alexander I of Scotland,   b. 1077-1078, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Apr 1124, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 46 years)
    +6. Queen Edith (Mathilda) of Scotland,   b. Oct 1079, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 May 1118, Westminster Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years)
    +7. King David I of Scotland, 'the Saint',   b. 1084   d. 24 May 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    +8. Beatrix of Scotland   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F2708  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2010 

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  • Notes 
    • "Athling"

      Margaret's father, Edward "the Exile" Atheling, had been sent to Hungary for safety during the reign of Canute. There he met Agatha 33 , relative of Saint Stephen of Hungary. They married and had several children, including Margaret and her brother, Edward. Although she was born in Hungary, Margaret was an English princess even though her father never was to reign as king. Her father, Edward the Exile, was summoned back to England and offered the crown but he died before the coronation. His son, Edward, Margaret's brother, was then the rightful heir to the crown, but he was rejected because the Norman Conquest had just taken place and the might and sword of William the Conqueror took precedence over the right of primogeniture -- the normal ascension of kings. Agatha and her children, Margaret and Edward, fled England intending to seek safety back in Hungary, but the ship was blown off course in a storm and they took refuge on the shores of Scotland. There Malcolm III, King of Scots, took them into his castle and treated them as royal guests, which they were.
      Malcolm fell in love with the Princess Margaret and proposed marriage, but Margaret did not wish to marry for several reasons. One was that she had planned to devote her life to God in a nunnery in Hungary. Another was the fact that the Scots were a crude, coarse people, unlike the refined sophistication she was accustomed to in Hungary and England. Nevertheless, Malcolm won her heart and they married.
      Rather than accept Malcolm's Scottish lifestyle, Margaret set about converting Malcolm, and all about her, to hers.
      A historian described her as " one of those strong, interfering, pious and persistent women of whom England has successfully bred a considerable number". She introduced continental fashions to the court, checked mirth, and eliminated the coarseness that initially greeted her. She dominated the clergy, forcing them to alter masses and practices that were not true to the Roman Church; she established abbeys and churches; and she brought in Benedictine monks.
      But she is known mainly for being a truly caring and compassionate person. Stories abound of her kind deeds and service to the poor. She would provide a meal each day at the castle for three hundred hungry. Daily she would travel about the countryside with a small group of attendants administering to the unfortunate. There are stories of her removing her royal
      wraps to give to a shivering beggar; of how, from her knees, she would wash the festering feet of the sick or lame; of how she would give her jewels and personal possessions to provide food for a child. Malcolm, her husband, wor-shipped her as much as did the poor people, and allowed his treasury to be considerably depleted to support her efforts. She was canonized in 1249 by Pope Innocent IV, largely due to a laudatory biography written by Turgot, a monk and her Confessor. Her feast day is celebrated by the Church on No-vember 16th each year.



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