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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 20 January 2025. Scottish king from 1040 to 1057 This article is about the historical Scottish king. For for the play by William Shakespeare, see Macbeth. For for the main character of that play, see Macbeth (character). Macbeth The name Mac Beathad Mac Fhindlaích in the Annals of Ulster King of Alba ...
No other version of the story has Macbeth kill the king in Macbeth's own castle. Scholars have seen this change of Shakespeare's as adding to the darkness of Macbeth's crime as the worst violation of hospitality. Versions of the story that were common at the time had Duncan being killed in an ambush at Inverness, not in a castle. Shakespeare ...
An early-adopter of artillery, James was killed when a cannon exploded while attacking one of the last Scottish castles still held by the English after the Wars of Independence. Richard III: House of York (England) 2 October 1452 1483–1485 22 August 1485 Killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field. Last English king to be killed in battle. James III
Macbeth was a cousin of Duncan and was a maternal grandson of Malcolm II. In a series of battles between 1057 and 1058, Duncan's son Malcolm III defeated and killed Macbeth and Macbeth's stepson and heir Lulach and became the king, thereby passing the throne back to the House of Dunkeld.
Since the death of his father, King Duncan, in battle with Macbeth, Malcolm had been sheltered by Earl Siward of Northumbria, [1] his uncle. [2] It was with Siward's backing that Malcolm first attacked Macbeth leading to the battle of Dunsinane in 1054, where Malcolm failed to win the crown, but had his own lands restored to him. [1]
Became king Thomas of Brotherton, Earl of Norfolk: Heir presumptive Half-brother 8 July 1307 Brother became king 13 November 1312 Son born to king Edward II: Edward of Windsor, Earl of Chester: Heir apparent Son 13 November 1312 Born 25 January 1327 Father abdicated, became king John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall: Heir presumptive Brother 25 ...
Crínán of Dunkeld, also called Crinan the Thane (c. 975–1045), was the erenagh, or hereditary lay-abbot, of Dunkeld Abbey and, similarly to Irish "royal- and warrior-abbots" of the same period like the infamous case of Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, led armies into battle and was very likely also the Mormaer of Atholl during the events later fictionalized in William Shakespeare's verse drama The ...
Charles IV [note 1] (18/19 June 1294 – 1 February 1328), called the Fair (le Bel) in France and the Bald (el Calvo) in Navarre, was last king of the direct line of the House of Capet, King of France and King of Navarre (as Charles I) from 1322 to 1328. Charles was the third son of Philip IV; like his father, he was known as "the fair" or "the ...