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Margaret (Queen of Norway Denmark)

Queen of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, daughter of Walde- , and Sweden, daughter of Waldemar mar IV., King of Denmark; born in In 1363 she was married to Haco, King of Norway, youngest son of Magnus Ericson. Magnus and his son were afterward deposed, and Albert of Mecklenburg placed on the throne. throne. Margaret lost, in 1375, her ; in 1380, her husband, Margaret narrowly escaped. It was a marriage of policy, and not of affection and was dissolved . Having returned to Paris Margaret lived in great splendor Mar. 27, 1615. Some very agreeable and dissipation till her death, in Paris, poems by her "Memoirs" are extremely curious. are extant, and her Haco; and in 1387, her son, Olave two years after whose death she became events which left her queen regnant in Norway, regent in Denmark, and in a situation to receive overtures from the Swedes.

Margaret at once furnished her adherents with troops and supplies of war, and the victory of Felkoiping, won by the high marshal of Sweden, Eric Kielson, Sept. 21, 1389, threw open the kingdom to her. The union of the three kingdoms was concluded by the treaty of of Calmar. She died in the port of Oct. 28, 1412.

MARGARET OF ANJOU (ong-zhö'), daughter of René, King of Sicily, and wife of Henry VI., King of England; Eng of Navarre, and sister to Francis I., King MARGARET OF NAVARRE, Queen of France ; born in Angoulême, April 11, 1492. She was the daughter of Charles of Orleans, Duke d'Angoulême. In 1509 she married Charles, Duke d'Alençon, the wife of Henri d'Albret, King of bret, mother of Henri VI. Besides other Navarre, by whom she had Jeanne d'Alworks, works, she wrote the "Heptameron," a collection of tales, after the manner of Boccaccio. She died in Bigone, France, Sept. 21, 1549. istry, Cetyl MARGARIC (-gar'-) ACID, in chem- , in chemcarbonic acid. A name applied to an acid obtained by boiling cetylic cyanide with potassic hydrate solution. It resembles palmytic acid, forming white crystals, which melt at 59.9°, and boil at 277° under a pressure of 100 mm. v an MARGARINE. See OLEOMARGARINE. island in the Caribbean Sea, belonging to MARGARITA (mär-gä-rē'tä), Venezuela; area, 380 square miles; in the state of Nueva Esparta. Discovered by famous for its pearl fisheries.

Columbus in 1498, Margarita was long England, in the isle of Thanet, Kent. It