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Image of Saint Margaret in a window in Edinburgh

Saint Margaret of Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Naomh Maighréad; Scots: Saunt Marget, c. 1045 – 16 November 1093), also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in the Kingdom of Hungary to the expatriate English prince Edward the Exile, Margaret and her family returned to England in 1057. Following the death of Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ætheling was elected as King of England but never crowned. After she and her family fled north, Margaret married Malcolm III of Scotland by the end of 1070. (Full article...)


Attributes: queen, reading
Patronage: Scotland, Dunfermline, Fife, Shetland, The Queen's Ferry, and Anglo-Scottish relations
See also: Gertrude the Great, Germany; Giuseppe Moscati, Italy; Roque González y de Santa Cruz, Peru

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