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(b.1045 - d.1093) The Saintly Queen. Hungarian-born queen of Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm III), who she was forced to marry after fleeing from the Norman invasion of England. Margaret is said to have had a remarkable influence on Malcolm, who lost his uncultured ways. She re-founded the monastery on the Island of Iona (originally founded by Saint Columba) and built an abbey at Dunfermline. Gravely ill in Edinburgh Castle, her death was hastened when she received the news that both Malcolm and one of her sons had been killed in battle at Alnwick (Northumberland). She was buried with Malcolm in the abbey she founded in Dunfermline and was canonized by Pope Innocent IV in 1251.
