Tour Scotland travel video, with Scottish music, on ancestry visit to St Margaret's Chapel located in Edinburgh Castle. The Chapel is the oldest surviving building in the city of Edinburgh. Stained glass windows in the chapel include; 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 King 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 in Fife, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names; Saint Columba who travelled to Scotland in 563 with twelve companions, where according to legend he first landed on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend. However, being still in sight of his native land he moved further north up the west coast of Scotland. In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts; William Wallace who entered into the history books during a fairly calm and affluent period of time period in Scottish history, Andrew, also called Saint Andrew the Apostle, ne of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and the brother of St. Peter. He is the patron saint of Scotland and of Russia.
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