General Notes

REFN: 1391AN
Alias:<ALIA> Margaret /Atheling/, The Exile of Wessex
REFN: P1391
Atheling, Margaret (St.) the Exile
Born: 1045, Hungary
Died: 16 NOV 1093, Edinburgh Cast le,Scotland
Interred: Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland
Notes:
Canonised 125 0 and her feast day is 16th November. In 1057 she arrived at
the
English cou rt of Edward the Confessor. Ten years later she was in exile
after
William d efeated 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 tw o daughters. Her unlearned and boorish husband grew daily more
graceful
and Christian under the queen's graceful influence.
Her remains were removed to Es corial Spain and her head Douai, France.
Father: Atheling, Edward the Outlaw, b. ABT 1016
Mother: , Agatha
Father: Atheling, Edward the Outlaw, b. ABT 1016
Mother: , Agatha
Married 1068, Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland to , Malcol m III Caennmor
of Scotland, King of Scotland
Child 1: , Edward
Child 2: , E dmund I of Scotland, King of Scotland
Child 3: , Ethelred, Abbot of Dunkeld
C hild 4: , Edgar of Scotland, King of Scotland, b. ABT 1074
Child 5: , AlexanDe r I the Fierce of Scotland, King of Scotland, b. 1078
Child 6: , Matilda (Edit h) of Scotland, b. 1079/80
Child 7: , David I the Saint of Scotland, King of S cotland, b. ABT 1084
Child 8: , Mary of Scotland
sole heiress of the Saxon royal line, married Malcolm III Canmore, King
of Scotland, descended from a lon g line of Scottish royalty. See the
Scottish lineage elsewhere in Volume I. S he died in 1093. They had the
following children:
1. Edward , died November 16, 1093, slain with his father near Alnwick.
2. Edgar, born about 1074, King of Scotland, ascended 1097, died in
January 1107. He was absent from Scotland with William Rufus in England,
about 1099-1100; with Henry I. in England, ab out 1101-1102.
3. Edmund.
4. Ethelred, who was bred a churchman and became Al dee, abbot of Dunkeld.
5. Alexander I., the Fierce, born about 1077, King of S cotland, ascended
January 8, 1107, died April 25, 1124. He was absent from Sc otland in the
invasion of Wales in the summer of 1114, and in cooperation wit h Henry I
of England. He married Sybilla.
6. David I. (St. David), King of S cotland, married Matilda (Maud). See
below in the Section on Scottish Kings.
7. Edith - Margaret (Matilda) of Scotland. See below.
8. Mary, died May 31, 1 115, married Eustace, Count of Boulogne. They were
parents of Matilda, who married Stephen, King of England
grey sky overhead;
A grey sky overhead; a cold bitter wind sweeping the spray from off the cr
ests of the great grey waves; a grey inhospitable-looking land stretchi
ng north and south. This was what the dim morning light showed to the ey
es of the anxious watchers in the little boat which was battling its way a
long the shores of the Firth of Forth. Truly it was but a dark outlook, a
nd the hearts of the little company on board were as heavily overshadow
ed by the clouds of misfortune, doubt, and foreboding, as the gloomy shor
es were wrapped in their folds of rolling mist.
It was a royal burden that the little boat bore up the waters of the Fir
th that wintry day of wind and mist. Edgar the Etheling, grandson of Edmo
nd Ironside, driven from his kingdom by the all-conquering William, had fl
ed northwards with his mother and two sisters, Margaret and Christina. So
me faithful followers had thrown in their lot with the royal fugitives, b
ut it was but a small company all told. No wonder that their hearts were h
eavy that wintry morning. Obliged to flee from their own country, driven o
ut of their course by the raging tempest, what welcome awaited them in th
is bleak land, of which they had heard many a savage tale?
Would they be treated as friends or looked upon as enemies? The royal fami
ly had meant to return to Hungary, where Edgar and his sisters had spent t
he days of thei