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Personal data MALCOLM II "The Destroyer" King of Scotland 27th GGF 

• Alternative name: MALCOLM II King of Scotland 27th GGF
• He was born on October 5, 954 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland.

  Mael Coluim (Malcolm II) "King of Scotland" of Scotland formerly MacAlpin aka mac Cinaeda, Mackenneth

• (King of Scots) on 1005-1034: succeeded in 1005 to the throne by defeating and killing Kenneth III, son of Duff, at Monzievaird, Perthshire..
• (Conquered Lothian) in the year 1018.
• (King of Strathclyde) on 997 -1005.
• (King of Strathclyde) on 990-995: He was the King of Strathclyde.
• He died on November 25, 1034 in Glamis Castle, Angusshire, Scotland (Murdered), he was 80 years old.

  Killed by his kinsman

• He is buried in Iona, Argyllshire, Scotland.
• A child of KENNETH II King of Scotland (Alba) and SHEILAH "Flamehair" O'neill, Princess of Leinster

Household of MALCOLM II "The Destroyer" King of Scotland 27th GGF

He had a relationship with EDITH Ælfgifu Sigurdsdóttir Queen of Scotland (Alba).

Child(ren):

1. BETHOC Ingen Maíl Coluim Meic Cináeda Princess of Scotland  984-1049 

Notes about MALCOLM II "The Destroyer" King of Scotland 27th GGF

Malcolm II (1005-1034), son of Kenneth II, demonstrated a rare ability to survive among early Scottish kings by reigning for twenty-nine years. He was a clever and ambitious man. Brehon tradition provided that the successor to Malcolm was to be selected by him from among the descendants of King Aedh, with the consent of Malcolm’s ministers and of the church. Ostensibly in an attempt to end the devastating feuds in the north of Scotland, but obviously influenced by the Norman feudal model, Malcolm ignored tradition and determined to retain the succession within his own line. But since Malcolm had no son of his own, he undertook to negotiate a series of dynastic marriages of his three daughters to men who might otherwise be his rivals, while securing the loyalty of the principal chiefs, their relatives.

First he married his daughter Bethoc to Crinan, Thane of The Isles, head of the house of Atholl and secular Abbot of Dunkeld; then his youngest daughter, Olith, to Sigurd, Earl of Orkney. His middle daughter, Donada, was married to Findláich, Mormaer of Moray, Thane of Ross and Cromarty and a descendant of Loarn of Dalriada. This was risky business under the rules of succession of the Gael, but he thereby secured his rear and, taking advantage of the renewal of Viking attacks on England, marched south to fight the Sasunnaich. He defeated the Angles at Carham in 1018 and installed his grandson, Duncan, son of the Abbot of Dunkeld and his choice as Tanist, in Carlisle as King of Cumbria that same year.

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