Margaret the Exile of England 
Margaret the Exile was born in 1045 in Wessex, England or Hungary.1 Margaret the Exile's father was Edward the Exile of the West Saxons and her mother was Agatha von Braunschweig. Her paternal grandparents were Edmund II Ironsides King of England and Ealdgyth of Northumbria; her maternal grandparents were Ludolphe von Brunswick Mar of West Friesland and Gertrude von Egisheim. She had a sister named Mathilde. She was the older of the two children. She died at the age of 48 on November 16th, 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland.1 General Notes
[SUSANNA KEENE.FTW]
Canonised 1250 and her feast day is 16th November. In 1057 she
arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. Ten years
later she was in exile after William defeated Harold at the
Battle of Hastings. She fled to Scotland where she was married
against her wishes to King Malcolm to whom she bore six sons
and two daughters. Her unlerned and boorish husband grew daily
more graceful and Christian under the queen's graceful
influence.
REF: Scottish History website: 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. Scots 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.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0920 in Wessex, England d.26 MAY 946 in Pocklechurch, England
- b.0943 in Wessex, England d.8 JUL 975 in Wessex, England
- b.0922 in Wessex, England d.0944
- b.0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.0922 in of Devonshire, England d.0971 in Tavistock
- b.0945 in of Devonshire, England d.1000
- b.0989 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in Oxford, England or London, Middlesex, England
- b.0908 in of Wessex, England
- b.0938 in Wessex, England
- b. in of Wessex, England d.1002
- b.1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, England
- b.0960
- b.0995 in of Wessex, England
- b.0960 in England
- b.1045 in Wessex, England or Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Midlothian, Scotland
- b.0918 d.1 NOV 955
- d.0972
- b.~ 0925 d.28 JUN 987
- b.0960 in of Derlingo, West Friesland d.1006
- b.1011 in of Brunswick, Germany d.23 Apr 1038
- b.~ 0920 d.20 AUG 997
- b.0950 d.04 May 1003
- b.11 NOV 995 in of Schwaben, Bavaria d.14 FEB 1042/43 in Utrecht
- b.0925 in of Arles, Bouches-Du-Rhone, France d.19 OCT 993
- b. in of Burgundy, France
- b.BET. 943 - 948
- b.~ 1025 in Braunschweig, Germany d.13 Jul 1054
- b.~ 1010
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Details of Margaret the Exile's family with Malcolm III Caennmor King of Scots
1 SUSANNA KEENE.FTW
Further sources/citations:
Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell, Recipient: J.H. Garner, Author @ Margaret Princess of England, d of Edward the Exile King of
England & Agatha von Augsburg, Ancestors of Henry II (Plantagenet) King of England, Url:, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ line 1 pp 1-4, Fighting Kings of Wessex @ p 190, d of Edgar the Exile, no mother, Overview Chart of Lineal Ancestors of King Edward III of, Royal Descents of Famous People, King Hereafter, File Number: ISBN # 0-375-70403-5
Further sources/citations:
Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell, Recipient: J.H. Garner, Author @ Margaret Princess of England, d of Edward the Exile King of
England & Agatha von Augsburg, Ancestors of Henry II (Plantagenet) King of England, Url:, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to @ line 1 pp 1-4, Fighting Kings of Wessex @ p 190, d of Edgar the Exile, no mother, Overview Chart of Lineal Ancestors of King Edward III of, Royal Descents of Famous People, King Hereafter, File Number: ISBN # 0-375-70403-5
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