• General Notes

  [SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
  
  Grew up in exile in England.
  Slain while besieging Alnwick Castle.
  Crowned 17 March 1057/8.
  Slew Macbeth (who slew Malcolm's father).
  Provided assistance to English resistance against the Normans.
  
  Burial.
  Made an alliance with Thorfinn the Mighty of Orkney, ruler of
  Scotland north of the Tay. This alliance upset the English, who
  exerted great control over Malcolm. Eventually, Malcolm allowed
  the northern alliance to dwindle away.
  Overthrew Macbeth with English arms & money.
  Macbeth siezed the throne of Scotland in 1040 after defeating
  and killing Duncan I near elgin. He based his claim to the
  crown on his wife's royal descent (Duncan's former wife Sybal).
  Malcolm III, son of Duncan I, and Earl Siward of Northumberland
  defeated Macbeth at Dunsinane in 1054, but they did not
  dethrone him. Three years later, Malcolm III killed Macbeth at
  Lumphanan. Macbeth's stepson Lulach reigned for a few months,
  and then Malcolm III succeeded him as king. William Shakespeare
  based his play, Macbeth, one of his greatest tragedies, upon a
  distorted version of these events which he found in Raphael
  Holinshed's 'Chronicle of Scottish History.' The only kernel of
  historical truth in the play is Duncan's death at the hand of
  Macbeth. From this fact, Shakespeare drew his portrait of
  ambition leading to a violent and tragic end (REF: 'The World
  Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p M4, "Ancestrial Roots of Sixty
  Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650", 1969,
  Frederick Lewis Weis, p 111, "Royalty for Commoners", Roderick
  W. Stuart, 1993, p 2
  
  REF: Scottish History website: Malcolm III Canmore (big head)
  was the first in a succession of kings of Scotland, who were
  under heavy English pressure or favor. Malcolm III took
  Scotland from MacBeth with English help, and it was the
  beginning of a process whereby Scottish Lords were "bought" or
  bribed with money and/or gifts (titles & lands) to promote
  English causes in Scotland. As previously mentioned, Malcolm
  III grew up in exile in England and spoke English as his
  primary tongue. He also visited Normandy, made friends there,
  and was also under their influence. The English looked upon
  Malcolm favorably, not for his sake, but because it was
  established English policy to get Scots to recognise the
  English as their Overlords by influencing the Kings of
  Scotland, and their counselors -- or if that failed, by force.
  Once Malcolm was 'firm' on the throne, he forgot many of his
  "obligations" to England, and instead made a treaty with
  Thorfinn the Mighty, leader of the Northern Vikings in
  Scotland, in 1059. This, of course, upset English plans
  greatly. Now Malcolm III had a powerful ally to the north.
  Malcom was not a wise or consistent leader though, and the
  treaty dissolved in time. Instead, he married Margaret, an
  English Princess who had taken refuge in Scotland along with
  her brother Edgar the Aetheling, after the Norman conquest of
  England begun in 1066. Most of all Anglo-Saxon (English)
  Nobility fled to the Lowlands of Scotland as safe haven from
  the Norman invaders. This is the beginning of the separation of
  Lowland Scotland and the Highlands and the Isles of Scotland.
  Under Malcolm III 'big or great head', and his successors, the
  foundations of feudalism were laid, at any rate, in southern
  Scotland. Malcolm's English wife Margaret, a saintly and very
  determined young woman, set herself to introduce to her
  husband's court English fashions and customs. She took the
  Scottish clergy in hand, much to their dismay, sought to impose
  the religious practices prevalent in England, (Anglo-Saxon
  England), celibacy, poverty, and so on. Scot's clergy prior to
  this had been allowed to marry. Due directly to Margaret
  Canmore's influences, Scottish court life assumed a decidely
  English tinge, while in the church a system of regular diocesan
  episcopacy gradually took shape. Malcolm, being educated and
  raised since the age of nine in England, was inclined to share
  his wife's views and during his reign shifted the cultural
  center of his Kingdom southwards into was had been Anglo-Saxon
  territory (Lothian area), only recently absorbed as a Scottish
  region, thereby seriously offending the Celtic north and west.
  Malcolm III, eyeing selfishly his southern neighbors lands in
  north England, conducted a series of border raids into
  Northumberland and Cumberland. This, of course, provoked a
  retaliatory response on the part of the Normans, led by William
  the Conqueror himself in 1071. William I invaded Scotland and
  forced the foolish Malcolm to pay homage to him. This did quell
  Malcolm's raids on England........for a while. In 1093 an
  attack on Northumberland (again) , by Malcolm, was repulsed and
  Malcolm III was killed by one of his Norman friends named
  Morel. Queen Margaret, for her part, died three days later,
  piously uttering a prayer of thanks that "...such sadness
  should have been sent, to purify my final moments." She was in
  due course canonized. Over the next three decades, Scotland was
  in turmiol, ruled over by a succession of weak, insecure kings.
  During this pitiful succession of inadequate kings, the Normans
  found themselves more and more easy Overlords of any and all
  Scots Kings. Normans began to take lands in lowland Scotland
  much as they did in Ireland.
  Grew up in exile in England. 1st Scots king to speak English as
  his primary tongue.

Details of Malcolm III Caennmor's family with Ingibiorg Finnsdottir

Details of Malcolm III Caennmor's family with Margaret the Exile of England