biography
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Malcolm III
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nickname Malcolm Canmore (‘Big Head’)
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (c.1031–93)
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| biography:
| King of Scots (1058–93), the son of Duncan I, who was slain by Macbeth in 1040. He returned from exile in 1054, and conquered S Scotland; but he did not become king until he had defeated and killed Macbeth (1057) and disposed of Macbeth's stepson, Lulach (1058). He married as his second wife the English Princess Margaret (later St Margaret), sister of Edgar the Ætheling, and launched five invasions of England between 1061 and his death in a skirmish near Alnwick, Northumberland. |
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