St Margaret

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
St Margaret was canonised in 1250 and her feast day is 16th November.
In 1057 she arrived at the English court of Edward the Confessor. Ten years later she was in exile after William defeated Harold at the Battle of Hastings. She fled to Scotland where she was married against her wishes to King Malcolm to whom she bore six sons and two daughters. Her unlearned and boorish husband grew daily more Christian under the queen`s graceful influence.
Margaret was worshipped without authority until 1250 or 1251 when she was canonized by Innocent IV who ordered her sacred body to be translated from its first tomb. On July 19, 1297, all the arrangements being made the men who were appointed to raise the body, found it impossible to do so; stronger men were ordered to lift it and tried in vain; still more men were brought, but all their strength was unavailing. Evidently the saint objected to what was being done. The clergy and all present prayed earnestly that the mysterious opposition might cease and the sacred rite be completed. After some time an inspiration was granted to a devout member of the congregation; namely, that the saint did not wish to be separated from her husband. As soon as they began to take up his coffin, that of his dutiful wife became quite light and easy to move, and both were laid on one bier and translated with ease to the honourable place prepared for them under the high altar.
In 1693 Innocent XII transferred Margaret`s festival from the day of her death to June 10, though November 16 is still the day celebrated in Scotland. The bodies are said to have been acquired by Philip II, king of Spain, who placed them in the church of St. Lawrence in his new palace of the Escorial in two urns. The head of St. Margaret, after being in the possession of her descendant, Queen Mary Stuart, was secreted for many years be a Benedictine monk in Fife; thence it passed to Antwerp, and about 1627 it was translated to the Scotch college at Douai and there exposed to public veneration. It was still to be seen there in 1785; it was well preserved and had very fine fair hair. Neither the heads, the bodies nor the black rood can now be found, but the grave of Margaret may still be seen outside the present church of Dunfermline. Her oratory in Edinburgh castle is a small church with sturdy short pillars and a simple but beautiful ornamental pattern at the edge of its low rounded arches. It was falling to ruin when, in 1853, Queen Victoria had it repaired and furnished with coloured glass windows.

• connection. Robyn Bray's links to Ethelred II (c967) whose statue is in Essex
* Ethelred II (c967 - 1016)
* Edmund Ironside (c986)
* Edward the Exile (1016)
* He had St Margaret (c1045) who married Malcolm Canmore (1031)
* They had Matilda Canmore of Scoltand (c1079) who married Henry 1 Beauclerc (1068)
* They had Matilda (Maud) Empress of Germany (1101) who married Geoffrey V Duke of Normandy (1113)
* They had Henry II Curmantle Plantagenet (1133)
* He had John'lackland King of England in 1166
* He had Henry III King of England (1207)
* He had Edward I (Longshanks) King of England (1239)
* He had Joan Princess of Plantagenet Joan of Acre (1271) & she married
Gilbert the Red (Gloucester de Clare) (1243)
* They had Margaret De Clare (1293) who married Hugh de Audley (1290)
* They had Margaret De Audley in 1312 who married Ralf De Stafford (1301)
* They had Catherine Stafford (1339) who married John Sutton (1329)
* They had John Sutton (1361)
* He had John Sutton (1380)
*He had John Dudley Sutton (1400) (Lord Dudley)
* He had Edmund Sutton (1425)
* He had David Sutton(1471) who married Catherine Knight (1475) who also married David Ireland (1470)
* They had Marie Ireland (1509) who married Richard Trentham (1504)
* They had Catherine Ireland (1542) who married Thomas Lane (1531)
* They had John Lane (1558)
* He had Walter Lane (1604)
* He had James Lane (1650)
* He had John Lane (1680)
* He had Walter Lane (1710)
* He had Walter Lane (1735)
* He had Sarah Lane (1773) who married Tom New (1780)
* His father was Joseph New (1734) and who also had Daniel New (1752)
* He had Joseph New (1778)
* He had William New (1798)
* He had Edward New (1833)
* He had Nathaniel New (1861)
* He had Elsie New (1906) who married Albert Croft (1900)
* His father was Albert Croft (1871)
* His father was Albert Croft (1845)
* His father was James Croft (1801)
* His father was Matthew Croft (1741)
* His father was John Croft (1706) and he also had Thomas Croft (1736)
* He had Matthew Croft (1793)
* He had Ann Croft (1834) who married Thomas Bell (1833)
* They had Elizabeth Bell (1860) who married Thomas Atkinson (1859)
* They had Martha Atkinson (1892) who married Septimus Hunter (1888)
* They had Elizabeth Hunter (1916) who married George Heptinstall (1911)
* His father was Alan Heptinstll (1877) who married Harriet Evans (1881)
* Her father was William Evans (1845)
* His father was John Evans (1821) and he also had Josiah Evans (1851) who married Mary Davis (1848)
* Her father was Thomas Davis (c1805) and he also had Joseph Davies (1852)
* He had George Arthur Davies (1894)
* He had Colin Davies (1925)
* He had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) 1950

Margaret married Malcolm Canmore. (Malcolm Canmore was born in 1031 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland UK and died on 13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumbria England.)