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Malcolm's father Duncan I became king in late 1034, on the death of Malcolm II, Duncan's maternal grandfather and Malcolm's great-grandfather.One Scottish king-list gives Malcolm's mother the name Suthen (Suthain), a Gaelic name; [7] John of Fordun states that Malcolm's mother was a "blood relative" (consanguinea) of the Danish earl Siward, [8] [9] though this may be a late attempt to deepen ...
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, claiming the throne. The dynastic feuds did not end there: on Malcolm III's death in battle, his brother Donald III, known as "Bán", claimed the throne, expelling Malcolm III's sons from Scotland.
The death of Malcolm and his heir meant that there was a dispute over the succession between Malcolm’s surviving sons and his younger brother Donald Bane. Donald became king but a civil war began with Malcolm’s sons trying to displace him. The lack of a strong, undisputed king in Scotland suited William Rufus well.
Malcolm II King of Scots c. 980 –1034 r. 1005–1034: Bethóc: Crínán of Dunkeld Mormaer of Atholl d. 1045: Edward the Exile 1016–1057: Duncan I c. 1001 –1040 r. 1034–1040: William I the Conqueror King of England c. 1028 –1087: Edgar the Ætheling: Margaret of Scotland c. 1045 –1093: Malcolm III Canmore c. 1031 –1093 r. 1058 ...
After the family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070. Margaret was a pious Christian , and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth in Scotland for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews in Fife , which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names.
The Treaty of Abernethy was signed at the Scottish village of Abernethy in 1072 by King Malcolm III of Scotland and by William of Normandy.. William had started his conquest of England when he and his army landed in Sussex, defeating and killing English King Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings, in 1066.
Scottish sources report that a revolt in Moray brought Malcolm north, and it is said that he: [R]emoved [the men of Moray] from the land of their birth, as of old Nebuchadnezzar , king of Babylon , had dealt with the Jews, and scattered them throughout the other districts of Scotland, both beyond the [ Mounth ] and this side thereof, so that ...
Donald was born about 1033, during the reign of his great-grandfather King Malcolm II.He was the second known son of the king's grandson, Duncan.Malcolm died when Donald was a baby, at age 80, and Donald's father became king.