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	Margaret of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		At first, Margaret's step-grandmother Yolande declared that she was pregnant with a legitimate heir, countering the claims of two powerful nobles, Robert Bruce, 5th Lord of Annandale (grandfather of the future Robert I of Scotland) and John Balliol, each of whom wanted the throne for himself.
		Eager to extend his own influence in Scotland, Edward arranged the Treaty of Birgham (1290), by which Margaret was betrothed to his son the Prince of Wales (later Edward II of England), in return for an assurance of Scottish independence (though he would serve as ward for the young queen).
		Margaret set sail from Norway to her new realm in the autumn of 1290, but took ill during the stormy voyage and died soon after reaching the Orkney Islands around September 26.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Margaret_I_of_Scotland (541 words)

	Saint Margaret of Scotland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Margaret was very religious, and saw to the building of churches and the preservation of sacred relics.
		Margaret was ill, and she died on 16 November, 1093, three days after the deaths her husband and her eldest son.
		Nevertheless, the descendents of Margaret did, after the death of Duncan I, through the assistance of the Norman establishment of England, succeed Malcolm; and these sons regarded their Anglo-Saxon heritage as important, as the latter was one of the main devices for legitimizing the authority of the Scottish kings in Lothian and northern England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland (938 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Saint Margaret of Scotland
		Under Queen Margaret's leadership the Rite of the Celebration of the Mass was brought under standardized norms, the vernacular of the Mass was changed from the many dialects of Gaelic spoken throughout Scotland to the unifying Latin, the Scots began to receive Communion regularly, and the observance of Lent was improved.
		In 1250, Queen Margaret was canonized by Innocent IV, and her relics were translated on 19 June, 1259, to a new shrine, the base of which is still visible beyond the modern east wall of her restored chapel.
		Margaret was loved by the poor, especially orphans to whom she was particularly attached in personal care and through the unceasing distribution of alms.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saint-Margaret-of-Scotland (3040 words)

	Margaret Tudor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret Tudor was the first daughter born to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York.
		She was married to James IV of Scotland on 8 August, 1503 at Holyrood House.
		Margaret was apparently not happy in her early days in Scotland, as is evident in a letter she wrote to her father, Henry VII.
	tudorhistory.org /people/margaret (390 words)

	MARGARET, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND - LoveToKnow Article on MARGARET, QUEEN OF SCOTLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Canmore king of Scotland, was the daughter of the English prince Edward, son of Edmund Ironside, and sister of Edgar vEtheling, and was probably born in Hungary.
		MARGARET (1489-1541), queen of Scotland, eldest daughter of Henry VII., king of England, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV., was born at Westminster on the zgth of November 1489.
		Margaret returned to Edin->urgh, and being no longer responsible for the custody of the ting she fled to England in September, where a month later she bore to Angus a daughter, Margaret, who afterwards became countess of Lennox, mother of Lord Darnley and grandmother of James I. of England.
	www.1911ency.org /M/MA/MARGARET_QUEEN_OF_SCOTLAND.htm (1251 words)

	Saint Margaret, Queen of Scotland - Notable Women Ancestors
		Margaret was born around 1045 in Hungary, the daughter of the exiled English Prince Edward "the Outlaw" Atheling of the English royal house of Wessex, and a German Princess named Agatha.
		Margaret was raised in the court of St. Stephen, King of Hungary.
		Margaret, who was very devout and much impressed with the futility of earthly greatness, had very nearly determined to be a nun, but when Malcolm's request was made to Edgar, "the Childe said 'Yea,'" and Margaret was persuaded to marry the king as his second wife.
	www.rootsweb.com /~nwa/margaret.html (2848 words)

	Definition of Margaret of Scotland
		At first, Margaret's step-grandmother Yolande declared that she was pregnant with a legitimate heir, countering the claims of two powerful nobles, Robert Bruce (father of Robert I of Scotland) and John Balliol, each of whom wanted the throne for himself.
		Margaret was the daughter of Eric II of Norway and his wife Margaret, daughter of Alexander III, who died in childbirth.
		Margaret set sail from Norway to her new realm, but took ill during the stormy voyage and probably died soon after reaching the Orkney Islands.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Margaret_of_Scotland (370 words)

	saint margaret of scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret, of the royal house of England, was born in Hungary and spent her childhood there as an unusually devout and pious girl.
		Margaret's ancestry tells a lot about why she grew up in Hungary, returned to England, and how she came to be Queen of Scotland.
		Margaret was proclaimed a saint by Pope Innocent IV in 1250...
	www.1st-in-golf-travel.com /8/saint-margaret-of-scotland.html (540 words)

	St. Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Margaret of Scotland (1045-1093) was the wife of Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm III), King of Scotland.
		It is said that Margaret died of the shock or grief (or both) that the loss of her husband and son caused her.
		The Feast Day for St. Margaret of Scotland is celebrated all over Scotland on June 10th, with services at her shrine in Dunfermline Abbey and at her chapel in the south transept of St. Andrews Cathedral.
	www.chebucto.ns.ca /Heritage/FSCNS/Scots_NS/Sig_Date/Saints/St_Margaret.html (239 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The date of Margaret's birth cannot be ascertained with accuracy, but it must have been between the years 1038, when St. Stephen died, and 1057, when her father returned to England.
		It appears that Margaret came with him on that occasion and, on his death and the conquest of England by the Normans, her mother Agatha decided to return to the Continent.
		In 1250 Margaret was canonized by Innocent IV, and her relics were translated on 19 June, 1259, to a new shrine, the base of which is still visible beyond the modern east wall of the restored church.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/09655c.htm (636 words)

	Margaret TUDOR (Queen of Scotland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A sketch of Margaret from the Recueil d'Arras
		Henry VIII had never tired of lecturing Margaret on morality (she had married the Earl of Angus after James of Scotland's death at Flodden); this, of course, is laughable when one considers his own matrimonial career.
		Lady Margaret Douglas, daughter of Archibald and Margaret Tudor was thrown into the Tower of London when Henry VIII came to know that she was engaged to Sir Thomas Howard, brother of the Duke of Norfolk.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/MargaretTudor(QueenScotland).htm (736 words)

	Saint Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Saint Margaret of Scotland (circa 1045 - 1093) Edgar Atheling 's sister married King Malcolm Canmore.
		The marriage of Malcolm and Margaret took place and was followed by several of Northumberland by the Scottish king probably support of the claims of his brother-in-law These however had little result beyond the of the province.
		The Roman Catholic church formerly marked the of Saint Margaret of Scotland on June 10 but the date was transfered to November 16 in the liturgical reform of 1972.
	www.freeglossary.com /Saint_Margaret_of_Scotland (585 words)

	St. Margaret of Scotland
		Margaret Atheling, though by birth a Saxon princess, was born in Hungary around 1045, where her father, Edward Atheling ("the Exile"), had been sent in infancy for protection in the court of King (Saint) Stephen of Hungary, following the death of his father, King Edmund, and the invasion of the Danish Canute.
		Margaret and her family were again in danger, and intended to return to Hungary; however, their boat was carried by North Sea winds to Scotland, where they found refuge in the court of Malcolm.
		Though Margaret originally wished to become a nun (her sister, Christina did enter a convent), Malcolm persuaded her to marry him (in 1097), and through her influence the kingdom was transformed from a remote and barbaric outpost to a beacon of Christian culture.
	www.wf-f.org /StMargaret%20of%20Scotland.html (1194 words)

	David McRoberts
		Margaret was a daughter altogether worthy of such forbears, strong in character, solid in piety and a profound scholar, the ideal person required to carry through the renaissance of culture and piety of which her adopted country stood so much in need.
		The source of Margaret's reform is the same Cluniac revival which led her contemporary, Hildebrand, to fight against the moral degeneracy of the church and to fight for its independence against the lay usurpers of ecclesiastical rights.
		Margaret's immediate achievement was hard-won and of necessity limited in range: for instance the queen did not attack the root cause of the whole evil state of the church, namely the usurpation of ecclesiastical positions by laymen.
	www.ewtn.com /library/MARY/STMARG.htm (6327 words)

	Life of Saint Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Hungary, Margaret was trained to be a princess by her parents and taught to be a devout Christian by Benedictine nuns.
		Margaret had hoped to become a nun and devote her life to the Church, but Malcolm had other plans.
		Margaret's second daughter Mary asked Margaret's confessor and friend Turgot to prepare a biography of her mother, in which he wrote: "Queen Margaret was a virtuous woman, and in the sight of God she showed herself to be a pearl, precious in faith and works."
	www.stmargaretstl.org /about/life.shtml (924 words)

	About Queen Margaret of Scotland
		QUEEN MARGARET of Scotland, born in southern Hungary, in the village of Mecseknadas, probably in Castle Reka, was the granddaughter of the English king, Edmund Ironside.
		Margaret's children saw the beginning of the Britain we know, the end of the exclusively separate period, the merging of Celt and Saxon into the unity now so firmly welded.
		It is an interesting fact that of all the saints canonised by the Church of Rome, Queen Margaret stands alone as the happy mother of a large family, a mother who reared sons and daughters to her credit and died surrounded by her children.
	www.qmssa.org /st_marg.htm (2984 words)

	About Queen Margaret of Scotland
		Queen Margaret was one of the most lovely Queens there has ever been, and she was loved because she herself loved so much, and did all she could for her subjects.
		Margaret's Chapel resembles some of the primitive Celtic chapels of both Scotland and Ireland in being small and irregular.
		In 1942 the St. Margaret's Chapel Guild was started under the patronage of Her Royal Highness The Princess Margaret and the enthusiastic leadership of Lady Russell, and on her death in 1958, she was succeeded by her daughter, Mrs Margaret Anne Macaulay, as convener of the Guild.
	www.qmssa.org /chapel.htm (1144 words)

	St. Margaret of Scotland
		Margaret, despite her appellation, was born a Saxon in 1046 and raised in Hungary.
		Hostilities again arose between Scotland and England, and in the ensuing unpleasantness Malcolm was killed along with Edward, the eldest son of Malcom and Margaret.
		Margaret herself was declared a saint in 1250, particularly for her work for religious reform and her charitable works.
	www.pitt.edu /~eflst4/MofScotland.html (845 words)

	St. Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		For Margaret knew that a greater than an earthly king was with her, and that He, her Lord and Master, held the grey waters and their uncertain fortunes in the hollow of His hand, able as ever to calm the winds and waves of this troublesome world with that comforting command, "Peace, be still."
		Margaret's beauty was not a thing to be lightly forgotten, and the Scottish King, with his lionlike head and lionlike nature, had a large heart which was very easily touched by beauty of any kind.
		Margaret's speech too was soft and courteous, and they were fain to confess that her graciousness won their hearts, almost in spite of themselves.
	www.stmargaretschurch.org /steedman.html (5350 words)

	Saint Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The daughter of the English prince Edward the Exile or "EdwardOutremer", son of Edmund Ironside, Margaret was probablyborn in Hungary.
		Malcolm's marriage undoubtedly improved the condition of the Englishto a great extent, and under Margaret's sons, Edgar, Alexander I and David I, the Scottish court practically became anglicized.
		Margaret died on 16 November, 1093, four days after her husband and hereldest son Edward, who were killed in an invasion of Northumberland.
	www.therfcc.org /saint-margaret-of-scotland-156059.html (332 words)

	St. Margaret of Scotland - Saint of the Day - American Catholic
		Margaret of Scotland was a truly liberated woman in the sense that she was free to be herself.
		Because of Malcolm’s love for Margaret, she was able to soften his temper, polish his manners and help him become a virtuous king.
		Margaret's outstanding virtue was her love of the poor.
	www.americancatholic.org /Features/SaintOfDay?id=1201 (581 words)

	St Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		St Margaret is regarded as one of the pearls of Scotland.
		Margaret was trained to be a princess by her parents, and was taught to be a devout Christian by the local Benedictine nuns.
		Margaret saw that the Church in Scotland had fallen into rather lax ways, and as Queen, she prompted the clergy to hold church councils to bring Scottish practices into line with Rome.
	www.webtrader.org /tayport/margaret.htm (1011 words)

	Abbeyfield St. Margaret of Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Abbeyfield project is the culmination of an undertaking designed to celebrate the diamond anniversary of St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church, which was established on Sperling Avenue over 70 years ago.
		A registered non-profit society, it is overseen by a board of volunteer directors comprised mainly of members of St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church.
		The Society is a registered charitable, non-profit organization and an outreach of St. Margaret of Scotland Anglican Church.
	www.seniorhome.com /webpages/abbeyfield/abbeyfield.htm (785 words)

	Margaret of Scotland, Saint on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MargS1c.asp (345 words)

	June 10: Margaret of Scotland's Feast
		King Malcolm III of Scotland was away, maneuvering against William the Conqueror, the Norman whose claim to England had forced the royal family to flee.
		In light of Margaret's remarkable story, we must believe that it was no mere chance that sent her to Scotland.
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	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/06/daily-06-10-2002.shtml (570 words)

	EBK: St. Margaret of Scotland
		She returned to England during the reign of her great-uncle, Edward the Confessor, but, as one of the last remaining members of the Saxon Royal Family, she was forced to flee north to the Royal Scots Court at the time of the Norman Conquest.
		Margaret was one of the principal agents of the reform of the Church of Scotland which was, at the time, at a low point in its history.
		Margaret founded churches, monasteries and pilgrimage hostels, including the revival of Iona, the building of the tiny chapel which still bears her name at Edinburgh Castle and establishment of the Royal Mausoleum of Dunfermline Abbey with monks from Canterbury.
	www.earlybritishkingdoms.com /adversaries/bios/scot_pict/margaret.html (394 words)

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