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Personal data Margaretha van Wessex 

• She was born about 1045 in Hongarije.
• She died on November 16, 1093 in Schotland.
• A child of Edward Atheling van Wessex and Agatha van Hongarije
• This information was last updated on October 17, 2009.

Household of Margaretha van Wessex

She is married to Malcolm III 'canmore' van Schotland.

They got married about 1069 at Dunfermline, Fife (Schotland).

Child(ren):

1. Maria van Schotland  ± 1068-1116 
2. Mathilda van Schotland  ± 1080-1118 
3. David I 'de Heilige' van Schotland  ± 1085-1153 

Notes about Margaretha van Wessex

Zij stamt uit het huis Wessex en is later heilig verklaard.
Daughter of Atheling the Exile. Events: Canonization in 1250, also called St. Margaret.
Margaret was canonized by Pope Innocent IV. Margaret was an English princess.
She and her mother sailed to Scotland to escape from the king who had conquered their land.
King Malcolm of Scotland welcomed them and fell in love with the beautiful princess.
Margaret and Malcolm were married before too long. As Queen, Margaret changed her husband and the country for the better.
Malcolm was good, but he and his court were very rough. When he saw how wise his beloved wife was, he listened to her good advice.
She softened his temper and led him to practice great virtue.
She made the court beautiful and civilized. Soon all the princes had better manners, and the ladies copied her purity and devotion.
The king and queen gave wonderful example to everyone by the way they prayed together and fed crowds of poor people with their own hands.
They seemed to have only one desire: to make everyone happy and good. Margaret was a blessing for all the people of Scotland.
Before she came, there was great ignorance and many bad habits among them.
Margaret worked hard to obtain good teachers, to correct the evil practices, and to have new churches built.
She loved to make these churches beautiful for God's glory, and she embroidered the priest's vestments herself.
God sent this holy Queen six sons and two daughters. She loved them dearly and raised them well.
The youngest boy became St. David. But Margaret had sorrows, too.
In her last illness, she learned that both her husband and her son, Edward, had been killed in battle.
Yet she prayed: "I thank You, Almighty God, for sending me so great a sorrow to purify me from my sins."
Let us take this saintly Queen for our example. While we do our duties, let us keep in mind the joys that God will give us in Heaven.
Her feast day is November 16th. Source: 1997 Catholic Online

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