Malcolm II of Scotland
Malcolm II of Scotland (born v. 954 - died the November 25th 1034) was king d' Écosse of 1005 with 1034. He was the first sovereign to reign on a territory corresponding about to the current Scotland.
He was born towards 954. He reached the throne after having killed his cousin Kenneth III, as well as the son of this one - Giric - with the Bataille of Monzievaird the March 25th 1005. Arrived at the capacity, Malcolm abolishes the Tanistrie definitively - habit which caused to make alternate the royalty between the two branches descending from Kenneth I {{er}} '' MacAlpin '' († 860) - which generated wars between them unceasingly. With this intention, it made assassinate all the male descendants of Kenneth.
After having wiped a bloody defeat in front of the " saxons" of Northumbrie at the beginning of its reign, Malcolm II combined with Owen the Bald person king of Strathclyde it demolished the army of Northumbrie to the Bataille of Carham, on the edges of the Tweed in 1018. This victory of the Scot seems to have reinforced the seizure of Scotland on the Lothian. In 1031, Knut II, king of England, Denmark and of Norway went to Scotland and recognized the possession of Lothian by the king of the Scots.
Saga of Orcadiens specifies that king Malcolm granted to Jarl Sigurd II Digri the Orkneys one of his daughters in marriage and that it invests at the 5 years age the son of this union the future Jarl Torfinn II of the the Orkneys of the Caithness.
To make safe the rights of its grandson Duncan to the throne, it eliminated all the potential rivals from this one of which " the small son of Boide mac Cinaed " in 1033 and the previous year Gillacomgain mac Maelbrigte the Mormaer of Moray, but Macbeth escaped its lightnings.
He died in Glamis the November 25th 1034 and was buried in Iona.
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