On This Day In History . 17 November 1093 . Saint Margaret of Scotland died at Edinburgh Castle . . About Saint Margaret; . ◼ Saint Margaret of Scotland was born around the year 1045, she was also known as Margaret of Wessex, & was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". . ◼ Margaret was born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short-ruling & uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret & her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. . ◼ Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming Scottish queen. She was a pious woman, & among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry & North Queensferry their names. . ◼ Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland (Edgar, King of Scotland r.1097–1107 ; Alexander I of Scotland r.1107–1124 ; David I of Scotland r.April or May 1124 – 24 May 1153, or four, if one includes Edmund of Scotland, who ruled Scotland with his uncle, Donald III) & of a queen consort of England, Matilda who married Henry I of England. . ◼ According to the Life of Saint Margaret, attributed to Turgot of Durham, she died at Edinburgh Castle in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle. In 1250 she was canonized by Pope Innocent IV, & her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation & subsequently lost. . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1093 #d17nov #queenMargaret #SaintMargaret #HouseofWessex #MargaretofWessex #History #EnglishMonarchy #ScottishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #Instahistory #Scotland #Edinburgh #EdinburghCastle #QueenofScotland #OnThisDay #Historic #thequeen #historyfacts #Anglosaxons #AngloSaxon (at Edinburgh Castle, Scotland) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4-fuQMgGYM/?igshid=1ekbkhjdmbv7v
