_CRINAN MORMAER __________+
_ DUNCAN _________|
| |_BETHOC "BEATRICE" ALPIN _+
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|-- MALCOMB
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| __________________________
|_Sybil Fitziward _|
|__________________________
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AFTER THE DEFEAT OF HIS FATHER , DUNCAN I. MALCOLM CANMORE (GAELIC
CEANN
MOR: BIG HEAD OR GREAT CHIEF) BORN C 1031, TOOK REFUGE WITH HIS UNCLE
SIWARD OF NORTHUMBERLAND, AND THUS AQUIRED ANGLO-SAZON ATTITUDES. HIS
TWO
ACTS OF REGICIDE ESTABLISHED HIS AS A FORMIDABLE WORRIOR-KING: HIS
FIRST
MARRIAGE PRODUCED THREE CHILDREN OF WHOM THE ELDEST SON DUNCAN WAS THE
HEIR APPARENT. IN 1066 THE NORMAN CONQUEST FORCED MANY ENGLISH
REFUGEES
INTO LOTHIAN, AMONG THEM EDGAR THE ATHELING (ANGLO-SAXON HEIR TO THE
THRONE) AND HIS SISTER MARGARET. MALCOLM MARRIED MARGARET IN 1069 AND
SUBSEQUENTLY TRANSFORMED SCOTLAND A FEAT DESCRIBED GLOWINGLY IN THE
ANGLO-SAXON CHRONICLE. WHAT MARGARET ACTUALLY DID WAS PERSUADE HER
ILLETERATE HUSBAND TO UNDERMINE CELTIC TRADITIONS: HE ROMANIZED THE
CELTIC CHURCH. SUBSTITUDED SAXON FOR GAELIC AS THE COURT LANGUAGE AND
REPLACE THE CLAN SYSTEM WITH A FORM OF FEUDALISM. HIS DREAM OF
EXPANDING
HIS KINGDOM INTO ENGLAND INTO A NIGHTMARE WHEN WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR
ABVANCED INTO SCOTLAND IN 1072. AT ABERNETHY MALCOLM WAS FORCED TO
SUBMIT
AS WILLIAM'S MAN AND TO DELIVER HIS SON DUNCAN TO THE ENGLISH COURT AS
HOSTAGE. IN 1093 MALCOLM WAS AMBUSHED AND KILLED AT ALNWICK DURING HIS
FIFTH INVASION OF ENGLAND.