*Malcolm MacKenneth
Male 958 - 25 November 1034
Born, Scotland.
Died, Glamis Castle, Forfarshire, Scotland.
Son of *Kenneth Alpin and **Perth Leinster.
King of Scotland 1005-1034; Assassinated on the way to Glamis.eth Rice;cestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call; Royal Daughters of England and Queens of Scotland and English Princes.an p. E- 21.er or Wife of Malcolm II, his daughter married a Sigurd, Earl(Jarl) of Orkney. Jarl-is a Cheiftian or Nobleman.ia otland he Danes.le against the Danes.s, Rulers, Dynasties, and Kingdoms of the World" by R.F. Tapsel, p.180ceeded in 1005 to the throne by defeating and killing Kenneth III, son of Duff, at Monzievaird, Perthshire. He commenced his reign by a raid on Northumbria and the siege of Durham, before whose gates he was repulsed with great slaughter by Uchtred son of the Ealdorman Waltheof, in 1006. Uchtred was rewarded for this victory by receiving a grant of the two Northumberland earldoms, Bernicia and Deira, from Ethelred king of Wessex, who gave him as his thrie wife his daughter Ægifu. The whole south-eastern border of Scotland being thus united under this powerful earl, Malcolm truned his attention to the north of Scotland. He allied himself to Sigurd, jarl of Orkney, in 1008, by giving his daughter in marriage, and the son of this marriage, Thorfinn, a boy of five, on the death of his father at Clontarf, 1014, was made EArl fo Caithness and Sutherland, while his elder brother succeeded to the Orkney, Shetland, and other island held by the Norse jarls. In 1018 Eadulf Cudel, the brother of Uchtred (slain by Canute), who retained the district north of the Tees, in spite of Canute's grant of the Northumberian earldom to Eric, another Dane, was defeated at Carham on the Tweed, two miles above Coldstream, by the united forces of Malcolm and Eugenius, or Owen the Bald, king of the Strathclyde Britons. The great victory, which ahd been presaged by a comet, led to the cession of Lothian to the Scottish kingdom, although John of Wallingford and Rober of Wendover assert there was an earlier grant by Eadgar, king of Wessex , to Kenneth circa 968, a view which Freeman, in his 'Norman Conquests,' adopts in a modified form, while admitting the effect of the victory of Carham, and acknowledging that Simeon of Durham is the best English authority on the point. His argument on 'The Cession of Lothian,' against Mr E W Robertson, is partial, and although he stated that the subject was suited 'for a monograph, and I do not find any opportunity for a single combat with Mr Robertson, he never found the opportunity; and 'his hope that some other champion of the rights of Edward and Athelstane may be forthcoming' has not been realised, for more recent English writers have not supported his views.at the men of Lothian should retain their customs and laws, with the important result that the Scottish south-eastern lowlands became the centre from which Anglo-Saxon and Norman civilisation gradually permeated Scotland. About the same time, on the death of Owen, the king of Strathclyde, that district which consisted of Cumbria north of the Sloway became an appanage of the Scottish kingdom under Duncan, grandson of Malcolm, by the marriage of one of his daughters with Crinan, the lay abbot of Dunkeld, while modern Cumberland, south of the Solway, fell into the hands of the English kings. The southern boundary of future Scotland was for the first time indicated by these two acquisitions, and, in spite of attempts to restrict or extend it, the Tweed and the Solway were marked out as the limits between the kingdoms.ute, who had conquered England, after a visit to Rome made a raid on Scotland, and, according to the 'Saxon Chronicle,' Malcolm 'bowed to his power, and became his man, retaining his allegiance for a very short time.' One of the poems of Sighvat, the Norse contemporary poet, perhaps refers to the same victory in the lines:e, are conjectured by Skene to have been Macbeth, son of Finlay, mormær of Moray, afterwards King of Scotland, and another mormær of uncertain name and district perhaps of Argyll. On 25 Nov 1034 Malcolm died, for the statement of Fordoun and Wyntoun that he was killed at Glamis is not supported by the earlier authorities. He is called by Marianus Scotus, the monk of Cologne, who was born during his reign, 'Rex Scotiæ,' the first instance of the territorial title of king of Scotland, and by Tighernac, the Irish annalist, 'king of Alban, and head of the nobility of the west of Europe.' A later chronicle (1165) mentions his benefactions to the church; but the foundation of the see of Mortlach, afterwards transferred to Aberdeen, ascribed to him by Fordoun, can scarcely be historical, and probably belongs to the reign of Malcolm III. The laws atributed to him, by which all Scotland was transformed into a feudal monarchy at a council held at Scone, are apocryphal, for feudalism proper did not penetrate Scotland till the time of Malcolm Canmore and his sons. The year before his own death he had slain a possible competitor for the crown, who is described by the 'Ulster Annals' as 'the son of Boete, the son of Kenneth, possibly his cousin or nephew,' and he was succeeded by his grandson, Duncan I, son of his daughter Bethoe by Crinan, lay abbot of Dunkeld, and father of Malcolm III. With Malcolm ended the male line of Kenneth Macalpine. [Dictionary of National Biography XII:843-844]and roughly corresponding to much of modern Scotland.I, and allegedly secured his territory by defeating a Northumbrian army at the battle of Carham (c. 1016); he not only confirmed the Scottish hold over the land between the rivers Forth and Tweed but also secured Strathclyde about the same time. Eager to secure the royal succession for his daughter's son Duncan, he tried to eliminate possible rival claimants; but Macbeth, with royal connections to both Kenneth II and Kenneth III, survived to challenge the succession. [Encyclopædia Britannica, online
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