SCOTLAND, Margaret of
1045 - 1093 (48 years)
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Name SCOTLAND, Margaret of Birth 1045 Hungary 
Gender Female Books About Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland 
Margaret of Scotland Books About Queen Margaret of Scotland 
Queen Margaret of Scotland Differentiator According to John of Worcester, Margaret lived for only three days after learning of the deaths of her husband and eldest son Relation to Me 29 GGM Royalty & Nobility Queen Consort of Scotland; English Princess of the House of Wessex Name Saint Margaret of Scotland, Margaret of Wessex and The Pearl of Scotland Death 16 Nov 1093 Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Person ID I3 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father EDWARD-AETHELING, b. 1016 d. Aug 1057 (Age 41 years) Relationship natural Mother AGATHA, b. Bef 1030 d. Aft 1070 (Age > 42 years) Relationship natural Family ID F1779 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family SCOTLAND, Malcolm III of, b. 26 Mar 1031, Scotland d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 62 years) Children + 1. PRINCESS OF SCOTLAND, Matilda, b. 1088 d. 1 May 1118 (Age 30 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] + 2. SCOTLAND, King David I of, b. 1084 d. 24 May 1153 (Age 69 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] Family ID F226 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 1045 - Hungary 
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Saint Margaret of Scotland - Wikipedia
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Royal Connections (3)
When you find a Gateway Ancestor in your family tree, it is almost impossible not to go down a rabbit hole of ancestry leading to connections with countless ancestors of the royal and noble classes. These lines have been extensively researched and documented by historians, so it is really just a matter of following the line. I've spent countless hours engrossed in the stories these royal lines have uncovered. In this album, I will link to ancestors who were members of the Royal class. Royalty refers to the ruling monarch and their immediate family. This includes kings, queens, princes, and princesses. The monarch is typically the highest authority in the land and has the power to grant titles of nobility.
Keep in mind that it is not necessarily unusual to be descended from royalty. After all, many of these connections go back to my 25th great grandparents and beyond. Theoretically, we have 67,108,864 sets of 25th great grandparents (In reality, due to a phenomenon known as pedigree collapse, where ancestors appear in the family tree multiple times in different generations due to intermarriage within a community, the actual number of unique 25th great-grandparents a person has is likely to be much lower). With this many, it might be more unusual NOT to descend from royalty. However, what makes our ancestry so unique is that we can TRACE it that far back, person to person to person. Since my fascination with our ancestry lies in my curiosity about the stories of the individual people, this is beyond compelling to me. It is like getting lost in a series of medieval novels in which I have an actual connection to the characters. It brings history to life.
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Notes - Scotland's only royal saint, Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) and of a queen consort of England. According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation and subsequently lost.