Edmund of Scotland

Male Aft 1070 - Aft 1097  (> 27 years)


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  • Name Edmund of Scotland 
    Born Aft 1070 
    Gender Male 
    Name Etmond mac Maíl Coluim 
    Reference Number 38033 
    Died Aft 1097 
    Person ID I38033  Thompson-Milligan
    Last Modified 12 Apr 2018 

    Father Máel Coluim mac Donnchada,   b. 26 Mar 1031, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margaret of Scotland,   b. 1045, Hungary Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1093  (Age 48 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 1068  Dunfermline, Perthshire, Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1615  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Edmund or Etmond mac Maíl Coluim (after 1070 - after 1097) was a son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada and his second wife Margaret. He may be found on some lists of Scottish kings, but there is no evidence that he was king.

      On the death of Edmund's father and his heir-designate, Edward, his eldest son by Margaret, in November 1093, Máel Coluim's brother Domnall Bán took the throne. Edmund and his younger brothers Edgar, Alexander and David fled abroad, to England, to join their half-brother Donnchad at the court of William Rufus.

      In 1094 Donnchad, with Rufus's blessing and the support of landless nobles from the English court and landowners in Lothian, drove Domnall Bán from the throne. It is supposed that Edmund, as the next in age, was Donnchad's heir-designate. Donnchad was forced by a rebellion to send his English allies home, and was shortly afterwards killed. The killer was Máel Petair, Mormaer of Mearns, but the Annals of Ulster and William of Malmesbury agree that the killing was done on the orders of Domnall Bán and Edmund.

      What caused Edmund to join with his uncle is unknown. It is assumed that Domnall appointed him his heir as Domnall had no sons of his own, and it is thought that Edmund was granted an appanage to rule.
      Edmund's maternal uncle Edgar Ætheling came north in 1097, driving Domnall from the throne and installing Edgar as King, with Alexander as his heir-designate. While Domnall was mutilated and imprisoned, dying in 1099, Edmund was more fortunate. He was tonsured and sent to the Cluniac monastery at Montacute in Somerset. The exact date of his death is unknown.