Saint Margaret of Scotland
Queen of Scotland from 1070 to 1093 · Lived 1045 to 1093 · aged 48
Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". She was a member of the House of Wessex and was born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile.
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Malcolm greeting Margaret on her arrival in Scotland; detail of a mural (circa 1898) in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery by William Hole
Malcolm and Margaret from the Forman Armorial (1562)
Stained glass window showing St. Margaret of Scotland at Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
Relief sculpture of St Margaret of Scotland, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington, D.C.
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She and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected King of England but never crowned. After the family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070.