King M�el Coluim mac Donnchada

   Cause of his death was Killed in Battle.

   Another name for M�el was Malcom III.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJB-53.

  General Notes:

Malcolm III "Ceanmor (Longneck)" King of Scotland, founder of the dynasty that consolidated royal power in the Scottish kingdom. The son of King Duncan I, Malcolm lived in exile in England during part of the reign of his father's murderer, Macbeth. Malcolm killed Macbeth in battle in 1057 and then ascended the throne. After the conquest of England by William the Conqueror, in 1066, Malcolm gave refuge to the Anglo-Saxon prince Edgar the Aetheling and his sisters, one of whom, Margaret (later St. Margaret), became his second wife. Malcolm acknowledged the overlordship of William in 1072 but nevertheless soon violated his feudal obligations and made five raids into England. During the last of these invasions he was killed by the forces of King William II Rufus (reigned 1087-1100), near Alnwick, Northumberland, England. Except for a brief interval after Malcolm's death, the Scottish throne remained in his family until the death of Queen Margaret, the Maid of Norway, in 1290. Of Malcolm's six sons by Margaret, three succeeded to the throne: Edgar (reigned 1097-1107), Alexander I (1107-24), and David I (1124-53).

  Burial Notes:

Holy Trinity Church

  Noted events in his life were:

� He worked as a King Of Scotland.

M�el married Margaret, daughter of Edward "Atheling" Prince Of England [The Exile] and Agatha Von Brunswick, in 1060 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland. (Margaret was born about 1042-1045 in Wessex, England, died on 16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland and was buried in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

Dunfermline Abbey

M�el next married Ingeborg Finnsdatter Queen Of Scotland about 1059 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland.