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Life of St. Margaret, Queen of Scotland
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An early 12th century manuscript written by Turgot, Bishop of St. Andrews, based on the text printed in the Acta Sanctorum, Vol. II, 101. Translated from the Latin by Rev. Father William Forbes-Leith, SJ.Saint Margaret of Scotland, 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 King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, her brother Edgar Ătheling 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.Margaret was a very pious Christian, and among many charitable works she established a ferry across the Firth of Forth in Scotland for pilgrims travelling to St Andrews in Fife, which gave the towns of South Queensferry and North Queensferry their names. Margaret was the mother of three kings of Scotland, or four, if Edmund of Scotland (who ruled with his uncle, Donald III) is counted, and of a queen consort of England. According to the Vita S. Margaritae (Scotorum) Reginae (Life of St. Margaret, Queen (of the Scots)), attributed to Turgot of Durham, Margaret died at Edinburgh Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1093, merely days after receiving the news of her husband's death in battle.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS.
- VIGNETTES.
- INTRODUCTION.
- THE PROLOGUE.
- CHAPTER I. - ST. MARGARETâS NOBLE DESCENT. HER VIRTUES AS A QUEEN AND AS A MOTHER.
- CHAPTER II. - HER CARE FOR THE HONOUR OF THE REALM AND THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH.
- CHAPTER III. - HER PIETY; HER CHARITY TO THE POOR; HER REDEMPTION OF ENGLISH CAPTIVES; HER MANNER OF PASSING LENT; HER BOOK OF THE GOSPELS.
- CHAPTER IV. - THE QUEENâS PREPARATION FOR HER DEPARTURE, HER SICKNESS AND HAPPY DEATH.