{"id":923,"date":"1093-04-22T14:22:00","date_gmt":"1093-04-22T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/dev2\/who-was-st-margaret-of-scotland\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:41:23","slug":"who-was-st-margaret-of-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/who-was-st-margaret-of-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"Who was St. Margaret of Scotland?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some of you are probably wondering who Saint Margaret was, and why the cemetery is named after her.  Fortunately, we have Wikipedia at our fingertips, and we can see in the following that she was very important to the country of Scotland, and was the mother of three Kings of Scotland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saint Margaret of Scotland<\/strong> (c. 1045 \u2013 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex<\/strong> and Queen Margaret of Scotland<\/strong>, was an English<\/a> princess of the House of Wessex<\/a>. Margaret was sometimes called \u201cThe Pearl of Scotland\u201d.[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar \u00c6theling<\/a>, the short-ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon<\/a> King of England<\/a>. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland<\/a> following the Norman conquest of England<\/a> of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland<\/a>, becoming his queen consort<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth<\/a> for pilgrims travelling to Dunfermline Abbey<\/a>, which gave the towns of South Queensferry<\/a> and North Queensferry<\/a> their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland and a queen consort of England. According to the Life of Saint Margaret<\/em>, attributed to Turgot of Durham<\/a>, she died at Edinburgh Castle<\/a> in 1093, just days after receiving the news of her husband’s death in battle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1250 she was canonised<\/a> by Pope Innocent IV<\/a>, and her remains were reinterred in a shrine at Dunfermline Abbey. Her relics were dispersed after the Scottish Reformation<\/a> and subsequently lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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