A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling

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4120775A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Margaret, sister of Edgar Atheling

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.