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[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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