Donald Bane King of Scotland

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Donald Bane, born about 1033, ascended November 13, 1093, at the death of his older brother, deposed, May 1094, restored November 12, 1094 and finally deposed October 1097. During his 2nd reign he is said to have shared the government with Edmund, son of Malcolm III and Margaret.

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Duncan I. (Maldred), King of Scotland, was slain by his cousin, Macbeth, local chief of Moray in 1041. One source puts his death on August 14, 1040. He was also the King of Strathclyde. He married about 1030, a cousin (some say the sister) of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Wurts records that he married Algitha, daughter of Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland and his wife, Elgifu, daughter of King Ethelred II.

Duncan married Alfaed SIBYLLA OF NORTHUMBRIA about 1030. Alfaed (daughter of Sigurd BIOMSSON, Danish Earl of Northumbria and Aefflaed OF BERNICIA) was born in in Scotland. [Group Sheet]

Crinan married Princess Berthoc OF SCOTLAND, Heiress of Scone. Berthoc (daughter of Malcolm II KING OF SCOTLAND and Sigurd OF SCOTLAND) was born about 984 in Atholl, Perth, Perthshire, Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Beatrice was the eldest daughter of Malcolm II, married Crinan the Thane, Lord of the Isles, hereditary Abbot of Dunkeld, born in 975, died in 1045. She was the aunt of Macbeth. They had a son, Duncan.

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Siward led Malcolm's army as it advanced on Scotland by land and by sea. Siward was a Northumberland-Danish warlord. The English met little resistance from the Scots in the lowlands and were confronted by Macbeth just outside Scone, the Scottish capital. The "Annals of Ulstar" maintain that 3,000 Scots were killed and 1,500 English and Danes slain. Still, it was far from a vistory and Siward had to withdraw his troops from Scotland, Malcom having to be content with lordship over Cumbria. the next year, Siward died and in 1057 Malcom alone had to lead the battle against Macbeth.

Sigurd married Aefflaed OF BERNICIA. Aefflaed (daughter of Ealdred OF BERNICIA) was born about 997 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Malcolm II., born about 980, died November 25, 1034. He succeeded to the throne in 1003, and had a troubled reign of about thirty years. He defeated Kenneth IV., at Monievaird in Strathearn, and in consequence became king. His annoyance came from the Danes who, in previous reigns, had made several attempts to effect a settlement in Scotland, but had been defeated in all of them. They had secured a firm footing in England, and the year after Malcolm's accession to the throne, they commenced the most formidable preparations, under their celebrated king, Sweyn, for a new expedition to the Scottish coasts. Malcolm finally defeated this initial invasion in 1010. There was a second attempt made to gain a foothold in Northern England, but it too was defeated. In 1014, another Danish force landed on the coast of Buchan. The Danes on this occasion were led by Sweyn's celebrated son, Canute, afterwards King of England and Denmark, and again they experienced a signal overthrow. A treaty was drawn up which stipulated that the Danes agreed to quit every part of the Scottish coasts, and this was followed by the final departure, the same year, of these invaders from Scotland. Malcolm was next engaged in war with the Northumbrians, and, having in 1018, led his army to Carham, near Werk, on the south bank of the Tweed River, he was met there by Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland, when a desperate battle took place. The victory was claimed by Uchtred, who was, soon after, assassinated, when on his way to pay his obeisance to the great Canute. He killed Kenneth III., son of Dub. He had no sons. Having succeeded as King of Alba in 1005, Malcolm II. secured Lothian by the battle of Carham about 1016 and about the same time obtained Strathclyde for his grandson, Duncan, thus forming the kingdom of Scotland.

Malcolm married Sigurd OF SCOTLAND. Sigurd was born about 985; and died. [Group Sheet]

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He was the Earl of the Midlands. He was murdered in 1049 by Sweyn, son of Earl Godwine.

Kenneth married Princess of LEINSTER. [Group Sheet]

Ulf married Estrith Svendsdatter OF DENMARK in 1018. Estrith (daughter of Sweyn I 'Forkbeard' Haraldsson KING OF DENMARK and Sigrid 'the Haughty' Storrade OF SWEDEN) was born about 967 in Denmark; died after 9 May 1032; was buried in Roskilde, Denmark. [Group Sheet]

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Malcolm I, who died in 958, King of Scotland 943, acquired Cumbria 945 from Edmund, the Saxon king of England. On the abdication of Constantine III., Malcolm succeeded to the throne in 944. In 945, Edmund, the Saxon king of England, ceded Cumberland and part of Westmoreland to him, on condition that he would defend that northern territory, and become the ally of England. Edred, the brother and successor of Edmund, accordingly applied for, and obtained the aid of Malcolm against Anlaf, King of Northumberland, which latter country he wasted, and carried off the inhabitants with their cattle. In the time of Malcolm I., the people of the province of Moray, in the northeast of Scotland, were a mixed race, formed of Scandinavian settlers, with Scottish and Pictish Celts. Turbulent and rebellious, they were continually at war with the sovereign, and an insurrection having occurred under Cellach, maormer of Garmorgan, Malcolm marched north to reduce them to obedience. He killed Cellach, but was, some time thereafter, assassinated in 953 at Ulurn after a reign of nine years. He was succeeded by Indulph, the son of Constantine II., and Indulph had as his successor, Duff, the son of Malcolm, who ascended the throne in 961. Malcolm I.

Malcolm married Unknown Mac Donald of SCOTLAND. Unknown (daughter of Donald II OF ALBA SCOTLAND) was born about 901; and died. [Group Sheet]

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Swengen ruled as King of Denmark from 991 until his death at Gainsborough, England in 1014, when he was on one of his annual raiding expeditions to that county.

Sweyn married Sigrid 'the Haughty' Storrade OF SWEDEN about 994. Sigrid (daughter of Mieszko I OF POLAND and Dubrawka) was born in 967 in Sweden; died in 1014. [Group Sheet]

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Harold II "Blaatand" (Bluetooth), King of Denmark, King of Norway founded the Jomsborg Viking colony and established Christianity in Denmark. He was surnamed "the Old" because of the length of his reign--58 years. He was the first Christian king of Denmark, 931-979.

Harold married Gunhilda OF SWEDEN. Gunhilda was born about 925; and died. [Group Sheet]

Mieszko married Dubrawka. [Group Sheet]

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Gorm lived at Jelling and was a traditional Viking who had a wooden burial chamber built in a huge mound at Jelling. It was a double grave, doubtless for him and his wife. Connected with this mound, the Danish archaeologist Dyggve has traced a large triangular plot of ground framed by upright stones marking a consecrated place. It can be assumed that Gorm died sometime in the 940's.

Gorm, "the Old", was King of Denmark from 883-941, King of East Anglia in England, 905-918, King of Seeland by conquest and by marriage of Jutland c 880. He was nicknamed "the Old" because of the length of his reign. He was a pirate in his youth and did not share his father-in-law's acceptance of Chrisitianity. He united all provinces of what is now Denmark into one state.

Source:
A History of the Vikings, by Gwyn Jones, pp. 204, 368-369.

Gorm married Thyri Klacksdottir OF JUTLAND. Thyri (daughter of Klack-Harald KING OF JUTLAND) was born about 880; died in 935. [Group Sheet]