Tour Video St Margaret Stained Glass Window Edinburgh Castle

Tour Scotland travel of the St Margaret stained glass window in St Margaret's Chapel in the Castle on ancestry, genealogy, family history visit and trip to Edinburgh. Saint Margaret of Scotland, born 1045, died 16th November 1093, also known as Margaret of Wessex and Queen Margaret of Scotland, was an English princess of the House of Wessex. Born in exile in Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the short ruling and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057, but fled to the Kingdom of Scotland following the Norman conquest of England of 1066. Around 1070 Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland, becoming his queen consort. She was a pious woman, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims travelling to >Dunfermline Abbey, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names.


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