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Saint Margaret (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. She married Malcolm III, King of Scots, becoming his Queen consort.

Saint Margaret was the daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside. She was probably born at Castle Réka, Mecseknádasd, in the region of Southern Transdanubia, Hungary.[citation needed] The provenance of her mother, Agatha, is disputed.

Margaret had one brother Edgar and one sister Christina.

When her uncle, Saint Edward the Confessor, the French-speaking Anglo-Saxon King of England, died in 1066, she was living in England where her brother, Edgar Ætheling, had decided to make a claim to the vacant throne.

According to tradition, after the conquest of the Kingdom of England by the Normans, the widowed Agatha decided to leave Northumberland with her children and return to the Continent. A storm drove their ship to Scotland, where they sought the protection of King Malcolm III. The spot where she is said to have landed is known today as St. Margaret's Hope, near the village of North Queensferry.

Malcolm was probably a widower, and was no doubt attracted by the prospect of marrying one of the few remaining members of the Anglo-Saxon royal family. The marriage of Malcolm and Margaret soon took place. Malcolm followed it with several invasions of Northumberland by the Scottish king, probably in support of the claims of his brother-in-law Edgar. These, however, had little result beyond the devastation of the province.

Margaret and Malcolm had eight children, six sons and two daughters:

   1. Edward, killed 1093.
   2. Edmund of Scotland
   3. Ethelred, abbot of Dunkeld
   4. King Edgar of Scotland
   5. King Alexander I of Scotland
   6. King David I of Scotland
   7. Edith of Scotland, also called Matilda, married King Henry I of England
   8. Mary of Scotland, married Eustace III of Boulogne

Her husband, Malcolm III, and their eldest son, Edward, were killed in a fight against the English at Alnwick Castle on 13 November 1093. Her son Edmund was left with the task of telling his mother of their deaths. Margaret was ill, and she died on 16 November 1093, three days after the deaths of her husband and eldest son.

Saint Margaret was canonised in the year 1250 by Pope Innocent IV in recognition of her personal holiness, fidelity to the Church, work for religious reform, and charity. She attended to charitable works, and personally served orphans and the poor every day before she ate. She rose at midnight to attend church services every night. She was known for her work for religious reform. She was considered to be an exemplar of the "just ruler", and also influenced her husband and children to be just and holy rulers.

The Roman Catholic Church formerly marked the feast Saint Margaret of Scotland on June 10, because the feast of "Saint Gertrude, Virgin" was already celebrated on November 16. In Scotland, she was venerated on November 16, the day of her death.

Per the revision of the Roman Catholic calendar of saints in 1969, the Church transferred her feast day to November 16, the actual day of her death.[1]  Traditional Roman Catholics continue to celebrate the feast day of "St Margaret, Queen of Scots, Widow" on June 10 as a Semi-Double  feast, or a 3rd Class feast.

Queen Margaret University (founded in 1875), Queen Margaret College (Glasgow), Queen Margaret Union, Queen Margaret Hospital (just outside Dunfermline), North Queensferry, South Queensferry, Queen Margaret Academy (Ayr), St Margaret's Academy (Livngston), Queen Margaret College (Wellington) and several streets in Scotland are named after her.

She is also venerated as a saint in the Anglican Church. 1271 - 1292 Alasia de Saluzza 21 21 1234 - 1296 Thomas de Saluzza 62 62 1210 - 1244 Manfredo de Saluzza 34 34 1223 - 1257 Beatrice de Savoy 34 34 1183 - 1212 Bonifacio de Saluzza 29 29 1180 - 1264 Maria de Torres 84 84 1157 - 1218 Manfredo de Saluzzo 61 61 1180 - 1260 Maria de Saluzzo 80 80 Manfred de Saluzzo 1134 Eleanor de Arborea 1084 - 1125 Boniface de Saluzzo 41 41 1108 - 1129 Alice of Savoy 21 21 1110 - 1191 Guillaume de Montferrat 81 81 1115 - 1164 Judith von Brandenburg 49 49 Conrad de Montferrat 1075 - 1133 Raynier de Montferrat 58 58 1050 - 1120 William de Montferrat 70 70 1050 Otta d'Aglie 1020 Otto de Montferrat 1111 - 1157 Agnes de Babenberg of Austria 46 46 1112 Heinrich von Babenberg 1117 - 1145 Berthe of Austria 28 28 1192 - 1242 Anne de Burgundy 50 50 1142 - 1192 Hughes of Burgundy 50 50 Duke of Burgundy
Hugh was the eldest son of duke Eudes II and Marie of Blois. He was married twice, first to Beatrice d'Albon, then to Alice of Lorraine (daughter of duke Matthias I), and had several sons and daughters.

The rule of Hugh III marked the ending of a period of relative peace in the duchy of Burgundy. Hugh was a belligerent man and soon was involved in conflicts against king Louis VII of France over their borders. When Philip Augustus succeeded Louis in 1180, Hugh seized the opportunity and forced several men to change alliance to Burgundy. Philip II was not happy with the loss of his vassals and invaded the duchy, besieging Chatillon. The town fell and with it, its garrison, commanded by Eudes, Hugh's heir. A peace was negotiated and Hugh had to pay a high ransom for his son and give up ambitions over French territory.

Hugh then turned his energies to the Holy Land, embarking in the Third Crusade in the retinue of Philip II. He was the most trusted ally of Richard, the Lionheart and fought with him against Saladin. When Philip returned to France, he left Hugh in charge of the French troops. Hugh played a major role in the victory of the battle of Arsuf (September 7, 1191) and the conquer of Acre, where he died in the following year.

In 1187, Hugh transferred the capital of Burgundy to Dijon, and endeavoured to turn the city into a major commercial centre.
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 1161 - 1228 Beatrix de Viennois 67 67 1130 - 1228 Guiges d'Albon 98 98 1095 - 1142 Guigues de Albon 47 47 1100 Marguerite de Macon 1070 - 1143 Mathilde Atheling 73 73 1051 - 1126 Edgar Atheling 75 75 Edgar Atheling (c. 1051 - c. 1126) was an uncrowned Anglo-Saxon king. Born in Hungary, he was also known as "Edgar the Outlaw". The Anglo-Saxon name Atheling or, more correctly, Atheling, means "son of the king". Proclaimed king by the witan following the death of Harold II in the Battle of Hastings on October 14, 1066, Edgar was never crowned and submitted to William I some eight weeks later. He was only about thirteen or fourteen years old.

Edgar was the only son of Edward the Exile, heir to the English throne, and grandson of king Edmund Ironside. Upon his father's death in 1057, Edgar was nominated as heir apparent by the king Edward the Confessor. Edgar was brought up at Edward's court, together with his sisters, Margaret and Christina. However he was too young at the time of the king's death in January 1066 to defend the country against impending invasion, and his election as king after Harold's death was no more than a symbolic token of defiance against the invading Norman forces.

Edgar relied largely for his support upon Archbishop Stigand and upon Earls Edwin of Mercia and Morcar of Northumbria and, when this weakened, (within a matter of days of the witan), Edgar was forced inevitably to submit to William at Berkhamstead in either late November or early December 1066.

William treated Edgar well. Seeing political advantage, he kept him in his custody and eventually took him back to his court in Normandy. However, Edgar joined in the rebellion of the earls Edwin and Morcar in 1068 and, though defeated, he fled to the court of Malcolm III of Scotland. The next year Malcolm married Edgar's sister Margaret, and agreed to support Edgar in his attempt to claim the English crown. In exchange, Edgar married Malcolm's sister, another Margaret. Edgar now made common cause with Sweyn Estridson, the king of Denmark and nephew of Canute, who believed he was the rightful king of England.

Their combined forces invaded England in 1069. They captured York, but did not proclaim the independence of Northumbria. William marched on the north, devastating the land as he went. He paid the Danes to leave, whilst Edgar fled to Scotland. He remained in refuge there until 1072 when William successfully enforced a peace treaty on Malcolm, the terms of which included the exile of Edgar. Edgar eventually made his peace with William in 1074 but he never fully gave up his dreams of regaining the throne of England. He supported Robert, Duke of Normandy, against William II in 1091 and again found himself seeking refuge in Scotland. He also supported his nephew, Edgar, in gaining the Scottish throne, overthrowing Donald III.

Around 1098 he went to Constantinople, where he may have joined the Varangian Guard of the Byzantine Empire. Later that year he was given a fleet by Emperor Alexius I to assist in the First Crusade, and brought reinforcements to the crusaders at the Siege of Antioch. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of Tinchebrai in 1106 fighting for Duke Robert against Henry I. He returned to England where Henry pardoned him, and he retired to his country estate in Hertfordshire. His niece Edith (renamed Matilda) had married Henry I in 1100. Edgar is believed to have traveled to Scotland late in life, perhaps around the year 1120, and was still alive in 1125, but may have died soon after, in his early seventies. By then he was forgotten by most and is remembered now only as the "lost king" of England. 1017 - 1057 Edward of England 40 40 D. 1066 Agatha von Braunschweig 0989 - 1016 Edmund of England 27 27 Edmund II, called Ironside (981?-1016), Saxon king of the English (1016), son of King Ethelred the Unready. When Ethelred died, Edmund was chosen king by the people of London, but Canute II, king of Denmark, who was leading an invasion of England, secured the support of the council (witenagemot) at Southampton and of Edric (flourished 1001-17), Ethelred's son-in-law. Edmund met the Danes in battle, winning several engagements and relieving Canute's siege of London. He was defeated at Assandun (now Ashington), however, through the treachery of Edric, who had pretended to desert Canute. A truce was arranged between Canute and Edmund; Edmund was permitted to rule the south of England until his death later in the year, when it reverted to Canute.

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Edmund II
Rank: 17th
Ruled: April 23, 1016-November 30, 1016
Predecessor: Ethelred II
Date of Birth: 989
Place of Birth: Wessex, England
Wife: Edith
Buried: Glastonbury Abbey
Date of Death: November 30, 1016
Parents: Ethelred II and Elgiva

King Edmund II of England (nicknamed Ironside for his military prowess - born in about 990 AD), was the son of King Ethelred II.

He was elected king of England by the population of London on his father's death in 1016, but his rival, Canute the Great, enjoyed greater support throughout the country.

He was eventually defeated by the Danes, and was allowed by Canute to keep the kingdom of Wessex, on the understanding that whichever of them survived the other would become ruler of the whole of England.

Shortly after making this agreement, Edmund II died, on November 30, 1016, and was buried at Glastonbury. Some say he was stabbed in the bowels while going to the privy. Ealgyth Henry Atheling 1016 Edmund of England 0963 - 1002 Elfreda Gunnarsson 39 39 1006 - 1077 Gertrude von Egisheim 71 71 1036 - 1085 Ekbert von Meissen 49 49 0965 - 1049 Hugh von Egisheim 84 84 0970 - 1046 Heilwig von Dagsburg 76 76 1002 Bruno Nordgau 0939 - 0980 Ludwig von Dagsburg 41 41 George de Cave Albert de Este Guglielmo de Cava 0950 - 1032 Judith von Oeningen 82 82 D. 1291 Luisa de Cave 1180 - 1219 Guglielmo de Cava 39 39 1160 - 1202 Alice Adelheid de Montferrat 42 42 1210 - 1300 Elisa de Este 90 90 1040 Margaret of Scots 1073 - 1136 Leopold von Brandenburg 63 63 Sources:

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      Title: Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 (7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992)ame to America bef 1760ame to America bef 1760. 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992.
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      Title: Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760 (7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992)ame to America bef 1760ame to America bef 1760. 7th ed Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore 1992.
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      Page: line 45 p 47  1070 - 1153 Gisela of Burgundy de Macon 83 83 1074 - 1143 Agnes of Germany 69 69 1142 Beatrix de Montferrat Both Turton and Leo van de Pas, citing ES, have Beatrice as daughter of William Montferrat, d. 1191, by Judith. However thepost below by Peter Stewart changes the classic ancestry.

The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 4 Feb 2003, by Peter Stewart:

I think Tom was perhaps asking about the Beatrice who married Guigues V d'Albon, last male ruler of his line, becoming maternal grandmother to the first Burgundian Guigues d'Albonwhose (third?) wife, Beatrice de Montferrat, Sally mentioned.

This earlier Beatrice is often named 'de Montferrat' too, but actually that was her mother's family. Her father was Alberto di Parodi, margrave of Gavi & her mother was Matilda de Montferrat. She married firstly ca 1155 Guigues V, dauphin of Viennois & count of Albon (died in July 1162) and secondly of Enrico, marquis of Caretto.

Her daughter was another Beatrix, sometimes called la grande daupine (died 15 December 1228), who married first before 1179 Albric Taillefer, count of Saint-Gilles (died ca 1183); secondly in September 1183 (as his second wife) Hugues III, duke of Burgundy (died on crusade at Acre 25 August 1192) by whom she was ancestress of the later dauphins, including her son whom Sally had in mind; and thirdly in 1193 Hugues I, seigneur of Coligny-le-Neuf (died September 1205). 1118 - 1162 Eudes of Burgundy 44 44 Duke of Burgundy
Eudes was the eldest son of duke Hugh II and Matilda of Mayenne. He married Marie of Blois. (Wikipedia)
 1128 - 1190 Marie of Champagne 62 62 1146 - 1192 Alix of Burgundy 46 46 1084 - 1143 Hugh of Burgundy 59 59 Duke of Burgundy
He was duke of Burgundy between 1103 and 1143. Hugh was son of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. He married about 1115 to Felicia-Matilda of Mayenne, the daughter of Gauthier, Count of Mayenne, and Aelina de Presles. He was succeeded by the eldest of his six sons.
(Wikipedia)
 1092 - 1162 Matilda of Mayenne 70 70 Aigeline of Burgundy Clemence of Burgundy 1125 Raymond of Grignon 1126 Sibyl of Burgundy 1130 Matilda of Burgundy 1065 - 1126 Gauthier of Mayenne 61 61 1075 - 1109 Aelina de Presles 34 34 Aelina's date of death is based on the probable date of Walter's second marriage to Alix de Beaugency.

Sources:

   1. Type: Web Site
      Author: Jim Weber
      Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk & Staggs Famlies
      URL: RootsWeb Family Trees
      Date: Feb 5, 2006
      Detail: Jim Weber cites numerous sources for his data. See his posting for details.  0930 Alberade of Lorraine 0913 - 0984 Gerberga of Saxony 71 71 1002 - 1038 Ludwig von Braunschweig 36 36 0974 Mathilde von Dagsburg 0979 Hedwig von Dagsburg 0915 - 0939 Gislebert de Hainault 24 24 0950 - 1047 Adelaide de Soissons 97 97 0935 - 0978 Gerberga de Lorraine 43 43 0932 Henri de Lorraine 0939 Wiltrudede de Lorraine 1225 - 1254 Margherita of Savoy 29 29 1150 - 1207 Bonifacio di Montferrat 57 57 0968 - 1026 Cuno of Swabia 58 58 1002 Hildegarde von Egisheim 1005 - 1037 Adelheid de Egisheim 32 32 1029 Gerhard Graf von Egisheim 0948 - 0985 Hugues de Egisheim 37 37 0950 - 1011 Berlinda von Ortenburg 61 61 0930 - 0967 Gerhard de Lothringen 37 37 0900 - 0949 Godfrey de Lorraine 49 49 0908 - 0948 Ermentrude de France 40 40 0925 Gerberga de Lorraine 0875 - 0910 Gebhard de Metzgau 35 35 0875 - 0963 Uda de Saxony 88 88 0890 Otto de Lorraine 0890 Adalbert von Metz 0908 - 0963 Uda de Metz 55 55 0855 Folmar de Metzgau 0942 Thored Gunnarsson Hilda 0908 Gunnar Gunnarsson 1236 Alisona di Saluzzo 1244 Agnes di Saluzzo 0990 - 1049 Hugh of Dagsbourg 59 59 1180 - 1260 Maria de Saluzzo 80 80 D. 1064 Teto di Savona Vasto 1055 Helene de Vintimille 0995 Conrad de Vintimille Sources:

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      Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=3997&pid=-2013157594  1020 Adelaide 0970 Richilde de Turin 0965 - 1001 Conrad de Ventimiglia 36 36 0945 Audouin D'Oriate Sources:

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      Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=3997&pid=-1168679457  0910 Audouin D'Oriate Sources:

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      Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=3997&pid=-1168679055  0880 - 0916 Roger D'Oriate 36 36 1030 Geoffrey FitzHaimon de Mayenne # Sources:

   1. Type: Web Site
      Author: Jim Weber
      Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk & Staggs Famlies
      URL: RootsWeb Family Trees
      Date: Feb 5, 2006
      Detail: Jim Weber cites numerous sources for his data. See his posting for details.

    
 1030 - 1079 Matilda de Alluyes 49 49 1008 Haimon de Mayenne Sources:

   1. Type: Web Site
      Author: Jim Weber
      Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk & Staggs Famlies
      URL: RootsWeb Family Trees
      Date: Feb 5, 2006
      Detail: Jim Weber cites numerous sources for his data. See his posting for details.  1012 Walter de Alluyes Sources:

   1. Type: Web Site
      Author: Jim Weber
      Title: The Phillips, Weber, Kirk & Staggs Famlies
      URL: RootsWeb Family Trees
      Date: Feb 5, 2006
      Detail: Jim Weber cites numerous sources for his data. See his posting for details.  1053 Trustin of Creully 1098 - 1160 Gersende d'Albon 62 62 1115 Marquise d'Albon 1142 Beatrice d'Albon 1116 Mathilde de Vienne d'Albon 1050 - 1125 Guigo of Albon 75 75 Sources:
Title: ES
Publication: "Europaische Stammtafeln",
Title: RFC
Publication: "Royalty for Commoners",
Note:
This book lists all of the known ancestors of John of Gaunt, which amounts to most of the Medieval royalty of Europe. Also see the following article: "A Mediaeval Miscellany: Commentaries on Roderick W. Stuart's Royalty for Commoners," The American Genealogist 69 (April 1994)
Title: PlantagenetA
Publication: "Plantagenet Ancestry",
Text: Turton, William Harry, The Plantagenet ancestry, Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1993.
Title: Talbot1
Publication: "Pedigrees from Mike Talbot of Metairie, LA".
1197 - 1253 Amadeus de Savoy 56 56 1103 - 1127 Jeanne de Montferrat 24 24 1115 Matilda de Montferrat 1112 - 1166 Alberto di Parodi 54 54 Peter Stewart states that Alberto di Parodi was Marques of Gavi. However the web-site which was referred to by Henry Soszynski as a follow up to the post for more information on Alberto'sancestry, (See http://genealogy.euweb.cz/italy/obert.html), says that Alberto's 1st cousin (another Alberto, son of his father's younger brother Guido), was Marques of Gavi. So there may be some doubt as to whether this Alberto was Marques of both Parodi & Gavi. 1115 Matilda de Montferrat 1085 - 1139 Guglielmo Francesco di Parodi 54 54 1050 - 1094 Alberto di Parodi 44 44 1055 Giuditta di Parma 1027 - 1094 Oberto di Parma 67 67 0980 - 1025 Hugh de Alluyes 45 45 0990 Richilde 1020 Aymeric de Alluyes 0945 Hugh de Alluyes 0990 - 1038 Gerhard of Eigisheim 48 48 Sources:

   1. Author: Stuart, Roderick W
      Title: Royalty For Commoners
      Publication: Name: GPC; Location: Baltimore, Md; Date: 2002, 4th Ed, 382p;
      Page: page 135 lin 246 re 32  0968 - 1016 Ethelred of England 48 48 Ethelred II, called The Unready (968?-1016), Anglo-Saxon king of England (978-1016), son of King Edgar and half brother of Edward the Martyr. His reign was marked by bitter military struggles. After negotiating a treaty with Richard II, duke of Normandy (reigned about 996-1026), Ethelred married Richard's sister Emma. This marriage provided the basis for the subsequent Norman claim to the English throne. Although Ethelred paid tribute to the plundering Danes, Sweyn I (the Forkbeard), king of Denmark, invaded England in 1013 and proclaimed himself king. In 1014 Ethelred fled to Normandy (Normandie) but returned a few months later upon Sweyn's death. Sweyn's son and successor, Canute II, invaded the country a year later and, following Ethelred's death, became king of England. Ethelred's sobriquet, “The Unready,” is a corruption of the Old English unraed,”bad counsel,” which is a reference to his misfortunes.

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Ethelred II (Old English: Æþelred), known as the Unready (968-1013 and 1014-1016), was a King of England.

According to William of Malmesbury, Ethelred defecated in the baptismal font as a child, which led St. Dunstan to prophesize that the English monarchy would be overthrown during Ethelred's reign.

Ethelred succeeded to the throne aged 10 following the death of his father King Edgar and subsequent murder of his half-brother Edward the Martyr. His nickname "The Unready" does not mean that he was ill-prepared, but derives from the Anglo-Saxon unræd meaning without counsel. This is also a pun on his name, the Anglo-Saxon form of his name, Æþelred, which means "Well advised".

Ethelred had at least sixteen children from two marriages, the second of these, in 1002, being to Emma of Normandy, whose great-nephew, William I of England, would later use this relationship as the basis of his claim on the throne.

He attempted to buy off the Vikings by payment of what was to become known as Danegeld; he had little choice in the matter since he was unable to place any trust in his generals.

In 1013, Ethelred fled to Normandy, seeking protection by his brother-in-law, Robert of Normandy, when England was over-run by Svein Haraldsson of Denmark and his forces. He returned in February, 1014, following the death of Svein Haraldsson. Ethelred died on April 23, 1016, in London, where he was buried. He was succeeded by his son, Edmund II of England. Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.