Margaretha Aetheling, Saint b. 1046 Wessex, England d. 1093 Edinburgh Castle, Scotland

1046 - 1093 (47 years)

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Father	Eduard Atheling Wessex, Prince of England, b. 1016, Wessex, England d. 1057, London, Greater London, England (Age 41 years)
Mother	Agatha von Ludolf Sachsen, b. 1018, Bayern, Germany d. Aft 1066, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England (Age 49 years)
Family ID	F1540	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Spouse / Partner Malcolm III Cleanmor, King of Scotland, b. 1031, Scotland d. 1093, Dunfermline, Scotland (Age 62 years)

Children

Family ID F1541 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 12 Feb 2016

Notes

The exile Queen of Scotland.

English princess, saint of the Roman Catholic Church

Margaret was the daughter of the English prince, Edward the Exile and granddaughter of Edmund Ironside, king of England. After the Danish conquest of England in 1016, Canute had the infant Edward exiled to the continent. He was taken first to the court of the Swedish king, Olof Skötkonung, and then to Kiev. As an adult, he travelled to Hungary, where in 1046 he supported Andrew I's successful bid for the throne. The provenance of Margaret's mother, Agatha, is disputed, but Margaret was born in Hungary around 1045. Her brother Edgar the Ætheling and her sister Cristina were also born in Hungary around this time. Margaret grew up in a very religious environment in the Hungarian court. Andrew I of Hungary was known as "Andrew the Catholic" for his extreme aversion to pagans, and great loyalty to Rome, which probably could have induced Margaret to follow a pious life.