biography
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| lived:
| (c.1005–57)
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| biography:
| King of Scots (1040–57). The mormaer (provincial ruler) of Moray (c.1031), he became king (1040) after slaying Duncan I in battle near Elgin, and in 1050 went on a pilgrimage to Rome. He was defeated and killed by Duncan's son, Malcolm Canmore, at Lumphanan, Aberdeenshire. Macbeth represented the northern Scots who were opposed to the ties with the Saxons, advocated by Duncan. Shakespeare's version of events comes from the accounts of Holinshed and Boece. |
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