Margaret

/mahr"geuh rit, -grit/, n.

a female given name: from a Greek word meaning "pearl."

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(as used in expressions)

Frances Margaret Anderson

Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft

Atwood Margaret Eleanor

Bourke White Margaret

Brent Margaret

Margaret Tobin

Burbidge Eleanor Margaret

Eleanor Margaret Peachey

Cameron Julia Margaret

Court Margaret Smith

Margaret Smith

Drabble Margaret

Margaret Hookham

Fuller Sarah Margaret

Margaret Rumer Godden Haynes Dixon

Mariel Margaret Hamm

Laurence Margaret

Jean Margaret Wemyss

Leighton Margaret

Margaret of Antioch Saint

Margaret of Austria

Margaret of Parma

Margaret of Scotland Saint

Margaret Tudor

Mead Margaret

Mitchell Margaret

Sanger Margaret

Margaret Higgins

Margaret Natalie Smith

Smith Margaret Chase

Margaret Madeline Chase

Florence Margaret Smith

Margaret of Angoulême

Margaret of Navarra

Margaret of Valois

Margaret of France

Thatcher Margaret Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven

Margaret Hilda Roberts

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▪ queen of Scotland

byname  The Maid Of Norway  

born 1282/83

died September 1290, in the Orkney Islands

      queen of Scotland from 1286 to 1290, the last of the line of Scottish rulers descended from King Malcolm III Canmore (ruled 1058–93).

      Margaret's father was Eric II, king of Norway; her mother, Margaret, a daughter of King Alexander III of Scotland (ruled 1249–86), died in 1283. Because none of Alexander III's other children were alive at the time of his death (March 1286), the Scottish lords proclaimed the infant Margaret as their queen. In 1290 her great-uncle, King Edward I of England, arranged a marriage between Margaret and his son Edward, later King Edward II of England. On the voyage from Norway to England, however, Margaret fell ill and died. Although the marriage treaty had specified that Scotland was to maintain its independence of England, Edward now proclaimed himself overlord of Scotland; the Scots resisted, and for more than 20 years Scotland suffered foreign domination and civil war.

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