Malcolm III of Scotland

Malcolm III, known as Malcolm Canmore, was king of Scots from 1058 to 1093. He defeated Macbeth’s successor and established a dynasty that strengthened ties between Scotland, England and continental reform movements.

His marriage to Margaret of Wessex connected the Scottish court to the displaced Anglo-Saxon royal family. Malcolm repeatedly invaded northern England and was killed at Alnwick during one of these campaigns.

In Nigel Tranter’s Macbeth the King, In eleventh-century Scotland, Mac Bethad mac Findlaích—remembered as Macbeth—is a powerful ruler of Moray before he is a king. In Nigel Tranter’s Margaret the Queen, Driven from England after the Norman Conquest, Margaret of Wessex arrives in Scotland with the blood of the old English royal house and little expectation of becoming a queen.