Margaret SAXON, Atheling

Abt 1045 - 1093  (48 years)

• Name	Margaret SAXON
  Suffix	Atheling
  Birth	Abt 1045	, , Hungary
  Gender	Female
  Occupation	Queen of Scots and Saint
  Death	16 Nov 1093	, , Scotland
  Notes	Came to England after the Norman Conquest. Her Father acquired land in the N. Daughter of Edward Atheling and sister of Edgar Atheling, who had fled with his sisters from Northumberland to Scotland. Young, lovely, learned and pious she won the heart of the rude Scots King. She did much to civilise the realm and to assimilate the Celtic Church to the rest of Christendom. She refounded Iona. She was canonised by Pope Innocent IV in 1251. {Burke's Peerage}
  Person ID	I6975	Gadd
  Last Modified	2 Oct 2006

  
  

  Father	Edward SAXON, "the Exile",   b. Aft 1015, , , England d. IN 1057, , , Hungary (Age < 40 years)
  Mother	Agatha
  Family ID	F2339	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Malcolm III CAENNMOR, King of Scots,   b. Abt 1031   d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland (Age 62 years)
  Marriage	IN 1068	Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
  Children	1. Edward MACCAENNMOR   d. 16 Nov 1093, , Northumberland, England   2. Edmund MACCAENNMOR + 3. Ethelred MACCAENNMOR, 1st Earl of Fife   d. Bef 1097   4. Edgar MACCAENNMOR, King of Scots,   b. IN 1074   d. 8 Jan 1106 (Age 32 years)   5. Alexander MACCAENNMOR,   b. IN 1077   d. 23 Apr 1124, Stirling Castle, Stirling, Scotland (Age 47 years) + 6. Matilda (formerly Eadgith) MACCAENNMOR,   b. Abt 1079, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 1 May 1118, Palace of Westminster, London, England (Age 39 years) + 7. David I MACCAENNMOR, "The Saint",   b. Abt 1080   d. 24 May 1153 (Age 73 years) + 8. Mary MACCAENNMOR   d. 31 May 1116
  Family ID	F2549	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart