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  YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> it:1286   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
March 19 - King Alexander III of Scotland dies in a horse accident with only Queen Yolande de Dreux's unborn child and the 3-year-old Margaret, Maid of Norway as heirs; this sets the stage for the First war of Scottish Independence and increased influence of England over Scotland.
In Laos, King Panya Leng is overthrown in a coup d'etat led by his son Panya Khamphong, which is likely to have been supported by the regionally dominant Mongol Empire (Yuan dynasty of China).
King Philip IV of France imposes the gabelle — a tax on salt in the form of a state monopoly — which would become immensely unpopular and grossly unequal, but persist until 1790.
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 Scotland - Search View - ninemsn Encarta
The extent of rule of the mac Alpin dynasty south of the Forth ebbed and flowed during the 10th century and was not established until the Battle of Carham, immediately to the south of the Tweed, in 1018.
It was both the making and the breaking of Malcolm Canmore, who harboured ambitions to extend his authority to the Tyne and perhaps as far south as the Humber.
When the last of the Canmore kings, Alexander III, died in 1286, he left the throne to Margaret, known as the Maid of Norway, daughter of Erik, King of Norway, his young granddaughter and only living descendant.
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 "Treachery in the remotest territories of Scotland: "Northern resistance to the Canmore dynasty, 1130-1230 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
"Treachery in the remotest territories of Scotland: "Northern resistance to the Canmore dynasty, 1130-1230
This paper argues that not only were many of the uprisings carefully timed and orchestrated predatory strikes against the Scottish kings in their weakest moments, but also that careful reexamination of these insurrections is crucial to our understanding of key issues in the history of twelfth-century Scotland.
The long and eventftil reign of Malcolm III "Canmore" ["Great Chief"] (1058-93), which established the so-called "Canmore dynasty" that would rule Scotland until the death of Alexander III in 1286, brooked little opposition.
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 Kings Of Scotland - A Chronological list of the Kings of Scotland, Scottish Monarchy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Edgar the fourth son of Malcolm Canmore and Queen Margaret was subserviant to England, he gave the western islands to the King of Norway to establish peace.
The son of King Malcolm III Canmore (reigned 1058-93), Alexander succeeded to the throne upon the death of his brother King Edgar (ruled 1097-1107).
The youngest of the six sons of the Scottish king Malcolm III Canmore and Queen Margaret (afterward St. Margaret), David spent much of his early life at the court of his brother-in-law King Henry I of England.
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 Margaret I of Scotland
Margaret set sail from Norway to her new realm, but took ill during the stormy voyage and died soon after reaching the Orkney Islands.
With her death, the Canmore dynasty came to an end.
In the two years that followed, Scotland was left with fourteen claimants to the throne.
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 Malcolm III of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Máel Coluim's long reign, spanning five decades, did not mark the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age, nor can Máel Coluim's reign be seen as extending the authority of Alba's kings over the Scandinavian, Norse-Gael and Gaelic north and west of Scotland.
Malcolm's accession to the throne, as modified by tradition, is the climax of Macbeth by William Shakespeare.
"House of Dunkeld" is all but unknown; "Canmore kings" and "Canmore dynasty" are not universally accepted, nor are Richard Oram's recent coinage "meic Maíl Coluim" or Michael Lynch's "MacMalcolm".
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This paper deals with a hitherto largely neglected facet of medieval Scottish history: resistance to the so-called "Canmore dynasty" (Malcolm III and his descendants) from Moray and Ross between the early twelfth century and 1230.
The kings of Moray might be portrayed as defending their rightful inheritance against the "wicked men of the race of Canmore." And Malcolm Canmore, his sons, and grandsons, might well be the ones regarded as treacherous and deceitful: Malcolm's path to the throne was, after all, bloodier than Macbeth's.
Although usually weaker than the Canmore kings, the rulers in these regions were semi-autonomous, and, in the case of Moray, had attained the zenith of power only recently, in the middle of the eleventh century, under Macbeth and Lulach.
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 Biography of Malcolm, III | Life of Malcolm, III
Malcolm III (died 1093), the king of Scotland from 1058 to 1093, established the Canmore dynasty, which ruled Scotland for two centuries.
His reign was marked by the introduction into Scotland of English influences.Malcolm was a claimant to the Scottish kingship as the son and heir of Duncan I, who had been displaced by Macbeth in 1040.
The epithet Canmore (big head) was originally descriptive of Malcolm's physical attributes; in later years it was used as a surname for his descendants.
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 Canmore Leader, Canmore, AB   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Canmore Leader — Canmore Peaks basketball tournament organizer Glenn Nelson says the tournament officially has a dynasty.
The Collective beat Etch, a Calgary-based team that took the championship in 1999, by a score of 92-82 in the final Sunday in Canmore.
A total of 12 teams competed in the two-day 26th annual Canmore Peaks tournament.
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 Normandy
The annexation of Strathclyde and of the English settlements Lothian identified Scotland as an aggressor scheming for Cumbria and Northumberland.
After 1058, Scotland, unlike the other Celtic kingdoms, was ruled by a single royal dynasty; the Canmores cast aside other claimants and moved from being kings of a boisterous federation to be dominators.
In the last decades of the 13th century, at the end of the Canmore dynasty and Edward I of England's search for real influence in Scotland combined to sweep away the balance between English claims and Scottish independence.
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While the Canmore dynasty was secure in Scotland, in twelfth century England there was civil war followed by the rise of the Angevin dynasty.
A military recovery under Henry V appeared to have handed him the French victory; instead, after his death, England quickly declined into a period of bloody civil war known as the Wars of the Roses.
Scotland saw the establishment of a new dynasty - a dynasty that would eventually capture the English throne - the Stewarts.
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 DFA: Judices Family History
Long held family tradition has it that the earliest known ancestor of the Dempsters was Alan, a close relative of King Malcolm III Canmore, who was granted lordship of all the lands between the two Esks and the "Sword of Justice" after supporting that king during "the rebellion of the Thane of Loguhabriae".
The position's title was later latinised as "Judex" and remained one of considerable influence until the eleventh and twelfth centuries when the Normanising influence of the Margaretson Dynasty led to the start of a fall in prestige and authority.
Malcolm III Canmore was born in 1031, son of Duncan I, King of Scots by his wife, a relative of Siward of Northumbria.
easyweb.easynet.co.uk /~jdempster/Histjudices.html   (1987 words)

  
 The Discernment Ministries: British-Israelism
The Scottish Stewarts claim to be the sacred Merovingian dynasty, rightful heirs of the thrones of Scotland, England and, therefore, of the lineage of Jesus Christ.
A group of families linked by marriage, blood and shared loyalties and beliefs who were involved with the Templars throughout their history, with the propagation of their traditions after the suppression, with early Freemasonry in Scotland and with support for the Stuart cause.
Although there is no minor contention as to whether the Stewart bloodline later became the Stuart dynasty, it is well known that Robert the Bruce was in the royal bloodline of Scotland.
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 Brock University - Department of History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
"`Causa ruine regni insularum:' Somerled mac Gillebrigde and the rise of a new dynasty in the Isles." Chapter in A New History of the Isle of Man. Volume 3: The Medieval Period 1000-1405, ed.
“ ‘Treachery in the Remotest Territories of Scotland:’ Northern Resistance to the Canmore Dynasty, 1130-1230,” Canadian Journal of History 33 (August 1999), 161-192.
“‘Treachery in the Remotest Territories of Scotland’: Opposition to the Canmore Dynasty (c.1130-1230).” International Medieval Congress 1999, University of Leeds, 13 July 1999.
www.brocku.ca /history/a_mcdonald-publications.html   (973 words)

  
 BookRags: Macbeth Biography
A second invasion, in 1057, led by Malcolm was successful, and Macbeth fell in battle; but rather than accept the "Saxon" Malcolm, Macbeth's supporters took Lulach for their king.
Within a few months LuIach was defeated, and Malcolm was able to inaugurate the Canmore dynasty.
When later Canmore kings fought Celtic forces of decentralization, they exalted their ancestor Duncan and developed a hostile vision of Macbeth, the last Celtic king, so as to discredit the Celtic cause.
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 CANMORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Canmore dynasty commenced with Malcolm III in 1057 and lasted until 1290 with a brief interlude between 1093 and 1097 when Malcolm III’s younger brother Donald Ban secured the crown.
Malcolm, son of Duncan I whose murder was immortalized in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, ascended to the throne of Scotland after slaying Macbeth in 1057.
On her death she was reunited with her husband in Dunfermline Abbey.
www.hometown.aol.com /pitreavieg/pitreavie/canmore.htm   (334 words)

  
 Queen Margaret - Travelscotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Malcolm Canmore was the monarch of Scotland who created a royal dynasty which ruled for 200 years.
With a new Norman dynasty on the English throne, she and her family were advised to flee to Hungary.
She bore him no less than eight children, three of whom - Edgar, Alexander I and David I - were to themselves become kings of Scots and so secure the Canmore dynasty for hundreds of years.
www.travelscotland.co.uk /guide/Queen_Margaret   (2159 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: September 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Events Margaret I of Scotland became queen of Scotland, end of Canmore dynasty.
The emperor or huángdì (皇帝) of China was the head of government and head of state of China from the Qin dynasty in 221 BC until the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
Events The Ly Dynasty in Vietnam is established (or 1009).
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 A History of Europe, Chapter 9
The trouble began with the extinction of the Canmore dynasty, caused by the aforementioned deaths of Alexander III and his granddaughter Margaret.
With that the Capetian dynasty became extinct, and the French picked a cousin, Philip VI of the House of Valois, to be the next king.
Frederick was from the Hohenzollern family, so this marked the beginning of another great dynasty, one which would play a pivotal role in the politics of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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 Edgar the Aetheling - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
1130), Anglo-Saxon prince, and last male of the West Saxon dynasty (Aetheling meaning heir-apparent), was probably...
His reign is conventionally seen as a marking of a new era, characterized by fundamental transformations of the ancient Celtic culture and...
From another viewpoint, the turning point of the reign and for Scottish history throughout the two centuries of the Canmore dynasty came in 1070.
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 Scotsman.com Heritage & Culture - Timeline - House of Canmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
THE CANMORE dynasty began with a period of peace between Scotland and England.
The dynasty came to a close with the disastrous death of Alexander III, an event which led to Scotland's invasion by the English Edward I - the 'Hammer of the Scots'.
The last of Malcolm Canmore's sons to be crowned.
heritage.scotsman.com /timelines.cfm?cid=1&id=41702005   (1166 words)

  
 Scottish Highlands and Islands Travel Information | Lonely Planet Destination Guide
A royal marriage between the two tribes saw a Scott become king of Alba, and thereafter the Scotti gained cultural and political ascendancy and Alba eventually became known as Scotia.
In the 11th century, Malcolm III and his English queen founded the Canmore dynasty of able Scottish rulers and introduced new Anglo-Norman systems of government and religious foundations.
David I adopted the Norman feudal system, granting land to great Norman families in return for their promise of protection.
www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/europe/scotland/scottish-highlands-and-islands?v=print   (1697 words)

  
 A History of Scotland Presented by Scottish Radiance - Peoples of the Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
David and his successors, of the line of Canmore or macMalcolm, managed to be at once both Celtic and feudal kings.
By the end of the twelfth century, the notion of a territorial kingdom, stretching to the north and south of the 'Scottish sea' of the Forth and embracing both Scotia and Lothian, was also widely accepted.
Yet the tradition of submission to a king of Scots did not begin with the Canmore dynasty; it was already more than two centuries old.
www.scottishradiance.com /scothistory/scothistory0201.htm   (543 words)

  
 Paradox Interactive Forums - Dunkeld vs. Canmore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
For one thing, Canmore was a personal nickname of Malcolm III (meaning something like "Big Head" I believe?) and was not a name applied to his whole family.
The Plantagenet dynasty also derived its name from a nick-name of sorts.
That and a Breton culture for Brittany, and the ability to play a Muslim, Pagan, or even Jewish dynasty are all mods I would like to play.
www.europa-universalis.com /forum/printthread.php?t=225608   (1695 words)

  
 Freefire Zone Forums - Historical Filth reprints- The worst job in history
The disillusion Constantine saw his country forced into humiliating decline and he relinquished the throne in 944 to become a monk.
Last of the Canmore dynasty, the "Golden Age" of Scottish Kings (Oh, the irony....).
Became King at the age of 8, had notable military successes against the Norse and reconquered the Hebrides.
www.freefirezone.net /showthread.php?t=2767   (1302 words)

  
 scottish heritage - genealogy scotland - clans - scottish associations - historical attractions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The Canmore bit is Gaelic; can is from ceann, 'chief' or 'head', more is from mor, 'great'.
As he has been variously described as lusty, barbaric, aggressive and a dedicated soldier, his name probably depended on which side of him you stood.
Whatever, he founded the great House of Canmore, a dynasty which consolidated royal power in Scotland for more than two centuries.
www.scotlandonline.com /heritage/heritage_gscots_detail.cfm?id=132   (433 words)

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