Malcolm
the name of various Scotch rulers, as follows: MALCOLM I., King of Scotland; reigned from 943 to 954. MALCOLM II. succeeded Kenneth IL II. succeeded Kenneth II. in 1005. In his reign Lothian and Strathclyde became parts of the Scottish kingdom. He was assassinated at Glams in 1034. He was the last direct male descendant of Kenneth MacAlpine. MAL- COLM III., surnamed CANMORE (Great Head); born about 1024. After the murder of his father, Duncan, by Macbeth, he sought aid from Siward of Northumbria, and his cause was also espoused by Edward the Confessor. On the defeat and death of Macbeth he was crowned at Scone in 1058. In 1068 he granted asylum to Edgar Atheling, his mother, and two sisters (one of whom, Margaret, he married in 1070), with a number of Saxon exiles. His reign, which was mostly taken up with wars with England, had nevertheless an important bearing on the civilization and consolidation of Scotland. MALCOLM IV.
Maiden) succeeded his grandfather, (the Ma David I., in 1153. He surrendered Northumberland and Cumberland to Henry II. in 1157. Died in Jedburgh in 1165, at the age of 24.