Malcolm III of Scotland

Malcolm III of Scotland , called Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm Gross-Head) (Scottish Maíl Choluim mac Donnchada ), born towards 1031, died the November 13rd 1093 with Alnwick, was king of Scotland of 1058 with 1093.

It was wire of Duncan I {{er}} (1001 - 1040), known as Duncan the Gracious , king de Strathclyde (1018 - 1040) and king d' Écosse (1034 - 1040), and of Sybille de Huntingdon (born towards 1010).

After the assassination (or the death with the combat) of his/her father, the August 14th 1040, it does not succeed to him, the throne being usurped by his/her cousin Macbeth I {{er}}.

In 1054, Malcolm succeeds in obtaining to the assistance of the king d' Angleterre Edouard the Confessor, who lends an army to him to reconquer his throne. King Macbeth is killed in 1057 and his successor, Lulach I {{er}}, in 1058.

Malcolm III is crowned king d' Écosse the April 25th 1058, in the Abbaye of Scone, in the Perthshire. At once gone up on the throne, it renews its alliance with the England, alliance which is sealed by its second marriage with the princess Marguerite of England, later known under the name of holy Marguerite of Scotland, small-niece of the late king Edouard the Confessor and sister of the new king Edgar II.

After the transitory reigns of the kings d' Angleterre Edgar II and Harold II, in 1066, it tries without much success to fight against William the Conqueror, of which it must recognize supremacy in 1072. A new war, in 1093, against another king d' Angleterre, Guillaume II, shows a heavy Scottish defeat and by the death of Malcolm III and its Edward son, which his/her brother Donald III succeeds.

Later on, four wire of Malcolm III become in their turn kings d' Écosse: Duncan II (of its first bed with Ingeborg Finndottir), Edgar I {{er}}, Alexandre I {{er}} and David I {{er}} (all three resulting from the second bed with holy Marguerite of Scotland).

The skin of Malcolm III undergoes some vicissitudes after its death. It is first of all buried with Tynemouth, then moved later with the abbey of Dunfermline. Nearly four centuries later, its remainders are transported, at the request of the king Philippe II of Spain, and for a reason which remains to be specified, to the palate of the Escurial, near Madrid, where it always rests.

Family & descent

Malcolm married initially

1) towards 1060 Ingeborg Finndottir widow of Torfinn II Jarl of the the Orkneys died before 1069 of which

2 in 1070 Holy Marguerite of Scotland died in 1093 whose

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