SCOTLAND, King Malcolm II of
954 - 1034 (80 years)
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Name SCOTLAND, Malcolm II of Title King Birth 954 Gender Male Relation to Me 32 GGF Royalty & Nobility Between 1005 and 1034 King of the Scots Web Address https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_II_of_Scotland Web Address https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/MacAlpin-34 Name Máel Coluim mac Cináeda Death 25 Nov 1034 Angus, Scotland 
Cause: Possibly murdered in a hunting lodge at Glamis Castle - Possibly murdered in a hunting lodge at Glamis Castle
Person ID I7311 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father SCOTLAND, King Kenneth II of, b. 925 d. 995 (Age 70 years) Relationship natural Mother Living Relationship natural Family ID F1806 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Living Children + 1. MACALPIN, Princess Bethóc, b. 973, Perthshire, Scotland d. 15 Sep 1049, Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 76 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1805 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Death - Cause: Possibly murdered in a hunting lodge at Glamis Castle - 25 Nov 1034 - Angus, Scotland 
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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 - To the Irish annals which recorded his death, Malcolm was ard rí Alban, High King of Scotland. In the same way that Brian Bóruma, High King of Ireland, was not the only king in Ireland, Malcolm was one of several kings within the geographical boundaries of modern Scotland: his fellow kings included the king of Strathclyde, who ruled much of the south-west, various Norse-Gael kings on the western coast and the Hebrides and, nearest and most dangerous rivals, the kings or Mormaers of Moray. To the south, in the Kingdom of England, the Earls of Bernicia and Northumbria, whose predecessors as kings of Northumbria had once ruled most of southern Scotland, still controlled large parts of the southeast. Malcolm demonstrated a rare ability to survive among early Scottish kings by reigning for twenty-nine years. He was a clever and ambitious man.