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• Title	Queen of Scotland
  Birth	1045	Castle Reska, Mecseknadasd, HUNGARY
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Nov 1093	Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
  Person ID	I0762	Burns
  Last Modified	24 May 2009 17:56:20
  Father	Edward "the Exile" Ætheling
  Mother	Agatha of Friesland
  Family ID	F275	Group Sheet
  Family	Malcolm III "Caenmore", b. Abt 1031, Scotland
  Married	1068	Dunfermline, Fife, SCOTLAND
  Children	1. Edgar of Scotland   2. Alexander I the Fierce   3. Matilda   4. Mary   5. David I "the Saint" Dunkeld, b. Abt 1084
  Family ID	F241	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Margaret moved from Exile on the Continent to England in about 1057. After the Norman conquest of England in 1066 Margaret fled to Scotland. Born about 1045, died 16 Nov., 1092, was a daughter of Edward "Outremere", or "the Exile", by Agatha, kinswoman of Gisela, the wife of St. Stephen of Hungary. She was the granddaughter of Edmund Ironside. A constant tradition asserts that Margaret's father and his brother Edmund were sent to Hungary for safety during the reign of Canute, but no record of the fact has been found in that country. 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. A storm however drove their ship to Scotland, where Malcolm III received the party under his protection, subsequently taking Margaret to wife. This event had been delayed for a while by Margaret's desire to entire religion, but it took place some time between 1067