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Margaret (Queen of Scotland born)

Queen of Scotland; born in Hungary, about 1045. From 1057 she was brought up at the court of her greatuncle, Edward the Confessor. In 1068, with her mother and sister and her boy brother, Edgar the Atheling, she fled from Northumberland to Scotland. Malcolm Canmore next year wedded her at Dunfermline. She did much to civilize the N. realm, and still more to assimilate MARGARET MARGIN DEALS the old Celtic Church to the rest of marriage at Paris that the massacre of Christendom. She built, too, a stately St. Bartholomew was perpetrated, and church at Dunfermline, and refounded Iona. She bore her husband six sons and two daughters, and died three days after him, in Edinburgh Castle, Nov. 16, 1093.