Canmore, King of Scots Malcolm III

Male 1031 - 1093  (62 years)


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  • Name Canmore, Malcolm  [1
    Title King of Scots 
    Suffix III 
    Birth 1031  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death 13 Nov 1093  seige of Alnwick Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Notes 
    • [dunbar_tree.FTW]

      Malcolm III Canmore became king after the defeat of Macbeth at Lumphanan.
      He had spent fifteen years in his youth at the court of Edward the
      Confessor and after the Conquest gave asylum to Edgar the Aetheling and his
      sisters, marrying one of them in 1070. {-see Encyclopedia Britannica,1956
      Ed.,14:723,20:146:} "The kingdom of which Malcolm III took possession was a
      Celtic kingdom, though one of its provinces was peopled by Angles. Local
      and tribal custom prevailed alike in Scotland proper (the district north of
      the Forth and Clyde) and in Galloway; the speech was Celtic; the court and
      administrative system, so far as the latter can be said to have existed,
      were Celtic. The church still retained, to a large extent, the structure
      and customs of Irish Christianity, although in the beginning of the 8th
      century a powerful Pictish monarch had ordered his people to keep the Roman
      date for Easter.... The disorganized state of the Scottish church, and
      some peculiar customs which marked its ritual, shocked the conscience of
      Malcolm's wife, an English princess, Margaret, who after the Norman
      Conquest, sought refuge in Scotland along with her brother, Edgar the Athel
      ing. ...Margaret was a woman of saintly life - she was canonized a century
      and a half after her death - and her own desire was to be a nun. [She
      tried but failed to bring the Scottish church into full compliance with
      Rome and its systems.] ...Her most important personal achievements were
      the introduction of an English-speaking court and of English-speaking
      clergy, and the education of her children in English ways and traditions."
      Malcolm founded the house of Canmore which reigned for more than 200 years;
      thus he restored the House of Atholl. His reign was 1058-1093; he was
      crowned at Scone.
    Person ID I1113  Bratt Family Tree
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2015 

    Father MacCrinan, King of Scots Duncan I   d. 14 Aug 1040, Elgin Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Mother Northumberland, Sibyl of 
    Marriage Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F542  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret, Saint of Scotland,   b. 1045   d. 16 Nov 1093, Edinburgh Castle Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 48 years) 
    Marriage 1070  Dunfermline, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Children 
    +1. David, King of Scots I,   b. 1080   d. 24 May 1153, Carlisle, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 73 years)
    Family ID F510  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 22 Aug 2015 

  • Sources 
    1. [S9] Albert E. Myers, Dunbar family tree.
      Date of Import: Mar 1, 2003