A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling
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MARGARET,
Sister of Edgar Atheling, grandson of Edmund Ironsides, King of England, fled to Scotland on the invasion of William the Conqueror, and married Malcolm, King of that country. She was a very amiable and benevolent princess. Her sons, Edgar, Alexander, and David, successively filled the throne of Scotland; and her daughter Matilda married Henry the First. She died November 16th., 1093, aged forty-seven.