ST. MARGARET AETHELING, QUEEN OF Scotland 
ST. MARGARET AETHELING, QUEEN OF was born about 1046 in Hungary. ST. MARGARET AETHELING, QUEEN OF 's father was Edward "The Exile", Prince of Aetheling and her mother was Agatha, of Hungary . Her paternal grandparents were Edmund II "Ironside", King of England and Ealgyth, of Mercia. She was an only child. She died on November 16th, 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland .General Notes
DESCENDANT OF KING ALFRED THE GREAT OF ENGLAND
BUILT ST. MARGARET'S CHAPEL ON THE HIGHEST PART OF EDINBURGH CASTLE
The beautiful Margaret was the daughter of an English Prince, Edward the Outlaw. She was brought up in the Hungarian court where her father was in exile. After the Norman conquest, she fled England for Scotland and married Malcolm. Margaret was admired for her compassion and charity. She introduced English (Roman) usages in the Scottish church. She was popularly regarded as a saint in her own lifetime and was, in fact, canonized as "Saint Margaret" in 1251. She died in 1093 almost immediately upon learning of her husband and son's deaths in battle in Northumberland.
St. Margaret's feast day is Nov. 16.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0968 in Wessex, England d.23 Apr 1016 in London, England
- b.0989 in Wessex, England d.30 Nov 1016 in London, England (possibly murdered)
- b.0938 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 0968 in Wessex, England d.1002
- b.0908 in Wessex, England
- b.~ 1016 in Wessex, England d.1057 in London, England
- b.~ 0947 in Tamworth, Staffordshire, England (Mercia)
- b.~ 0990 in Mercia, England
- b.~ 0940 in Mercia, England
- b.~ 0965 in Mercia, England
- b.~ 0942 in England
- b.~ 1046 in Hungary d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Scotland
- b.~ 1020 in Hungary d.> 1067 in Scotland
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