Qui es va casar amb Margaretha van Schotland (ca. 1045-1093)?

Margaretha van Schotland (Rékaburcht bij Mecseknádasd in Hongarije, ca. 1045 — Edinburgh Castle (Schotland), 16 november 1093) was een kleindochter van koning Edmund II van Engeland en de zuster van Edgar Ætheling, ongekroond Angelsaksisch koning.

Haar vader was Eduard Ætheling, zoon van koning Edmund II, en haar moeder was Agatha, vermoedelijk een edelvrouw uit Hongarije of Kiev. Waarschijnlijk werd zij in Hongarije (op de Rekaburcht, 'Terra Brittanorum' bij Mecseknádasd) geboren. Toen haar oom, koning Eduard de Belijder stierf, ging zij naar Engeland waar haar broer Edgar aanspraak maakte op de Engelse troon. Na de Normandische verovering van Engeland in 1066 besloot Agatha om Engeland met haar kinderen te verlaten en terug te keren naar het vasteland. Een storm dreef hun schip echter terug naar de kust van Schotland, waar zij de bescherming zochten van de Schotse koning Malcolm III.

Margaretha huwde Malcolm, hervormde de Kerk en verengelste het Schotse hof. Ook introduceerde zij de rooms-katholieke liturgie in Schotland, herstelde de abdij van Iona en stichtte een priorij in Dunfermline, door haar zoon verheven tot Dunfermline Abbey.

Malcolm III (Middle Irish: Máel Coluim mac Donnchada; Scottish Gaelic: Maol Chaluim mac Dhonnchaidh; c. 1031–13 November 1093) was King of Alba from 1058 to 1093. He was later nicknamed "Canmore" (Scottish Gaelic: ceann mòr, lit. 'big head', understood as "great chief"). Malcolm's long reign of 35 years preceded the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age. Henry I of England and Eustace III, Count of Boulogne were his sons-in-law, making him the maternal grandfather of Empress Matilda, William Adelin and Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. All three of them were prominent in English politics during the 12th century.

Malcolm's kingdom did not extend over the full territory of modern Scotland: many of the islands and the land north of the River Oykel were Scandinavian, and south of the Firth of Forth there were numerous independent or semi-independent realms, including the kingdom of Strathclyde and Bamburgh, and it is not certain what if any power the Scots exerted there on Malcolm's accession. Throughout his reign, Malcolm III led at least five invasions into English territory. One of Malcolm's primary achievements was to secure the position of the lineage that ruled Scotland until the late thirteenth century, although his role as founder of a dynasty has more to do with the propaganda of his descendants than with history. He appears as a major character in William Shakespeare's Macbeth, while his second wife, Margaret, was canonised as a saint in the thirteenth century.