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Saunt Marget o Scotland
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Saunt Marget o Scotland (c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), kent as Margaret of Wessex forbye, wis a Scots queen an English princess. Marget whiles wis cried "The Pearl o Scotland". She wis born in the Kinrick o Hungary tae the English prince Edward Ætheling. Kent as Edward the Exile, Margret's faither wis expatriate in Hungary bi Cnut the Great an wadna retour wi his faimly in England til 1057. Efter Harold Godwinson wis kilt at the Battle o Hastings, Margret's brither Edgar Ætheling wis wale't tae be King but wisna crount. Syne, Margret an her faimly flichtit tae Scotland an wis marriet til Malcolm III o Scotland afore the end o 1070.
Saunt Marget o Scotland | |
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Queen consort of Scotland | |
Tenur | 1070–1093 |
Born | c. 1045 Kingdom of Hungary |
Dee'd | (1093-11-16)16 November 1093 Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Kingdom of Scotland |
Buirial | Dunfermline Abbey |
Spouse | Malcolm III, King of Scotland |
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Hoose | Wessex |
Faither | Edward the Exile |
Mither | Agatha |
Releegion | Catholicism |
Saunt Marget | |
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Queen o Scots | |
Veneratit in | Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion |
Canonised | 1250 by Pope Innocent IV |
Major shrine | Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland |
Feast | 16 November |
Attributes | readin |
Patronage | Scotland, Dunfermline, Fife, Shetland, The Queen's Ferry, an Anglo-Scottish relations |
She wis a gey godlie Christian an was weel-kent for her mony warks o charity. Sicna wark wis the steidin o a ferry ower the Firth o Forth for pilgrims vaigin tae St Aundraes in Fife an gied the touns o North Queensferry an South Queensferry their names. Three o Marget's bairns wad be Kings o Scotland (fower gin Edmund, that rang wi his uncle, Donald III is taen tae be a King), an anither wis a queen consort o England. Frae wark attribute tae Turgot o Durham, Marget is thocht tae hiv dee'd in 1093 at Edinburgh Castle, days juist efter bein telt her man wis kilt fechtin the English at Northumbria.
In 1250, Marget wis canonize bi Pope Innocent IV, an she wis reyirdit intil a shrine in Dunfaurlin Palace. Her relics war skailt wi the Scottish Reformation an syne, tint. Mary, Queen o Scots wis gien Marget's heid that wis syne hained bi Jesuits at the Scots College, Douai, France. The heid wis tint in the French Revolution.