Biography of Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland 1283-1290

Paternal Family Tree: Sverre

Maternal Family Tree: Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy 1180-1252

On 31st August 1281 [her father] Eric II King Norway [aged 13] and [her mother] Margaret Dunkeld Queen Consort Norway [aged 20] were married at Bergen. She the daughter of [her grandfather] King Alexander III of Scotland [aged 39] and [her grandmother] Margaret Queen of Scotland. He the son of King Magnus VI of Norway and Queen Ingeborg of Norway [aged 37]. They were half fourth cousin once removed. She a granddaughter of King Henry III of England.

On 9th April 1283 Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland was born to [her father] Eric II King Norway [aged 15] and Margaret Dunkeld Queen Consort Norway [aged 22] at Tønsberg. Her mother died in childbirth and was buried at Tønsberg. She a great granddaughter of King Henry III of England.

On 19th March 1286 [her grandfather] King Alexander III of Scotland [aged 44] died from a fall from a horse at Kinghorn Ness while riding in the dark to visit the Queen [aged 22] at Kinghorn in Fife because it was her birthday the next day. His granddaughter Margaret [aged 2] succeeded I Queen Scotland.

On 26th September 1290 Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland [aged 7] died at St Margaret's Hope.

In 1293 [her father] Eric II King Norway [aged 25] and [her step-mother] Isabel Bruce Queen Norway [aged 21] were married. She by marriage Queen Norway. She the daughter of Robert Bruce Earl Carrick [aged 49] and Marjorie Carrick 3rd Countess Carrick. He the son of [her grandfather] King Magnus VI of Norway and [her grandmother] Queen Ingeborg of Norway.

Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland 1283-1290 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland 1283-1290

Kings Wessex: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings England: Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of Charles "Charlemagne aka Great" King of the Franks King Lombardy Holy Roman Emperor

Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Hugh I King of the Franks

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland 1283-1290

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Haakon IV of Norway

GrandFather: King Magnus VI of Norway

Father: Eric II King Norway

Great x 4 Grandfather: Canute Lavard

Great x 3 Grandfather: Valdemar "Great" I King of Denmark

Great x 2 Grandfather: King Valdemar II of Denmark

Great x 3 Grandmother: Sophia of Minsk

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Eric IV of Denmark

GrandMother: Queen Ingeborg of Norway

Great x 2 Grandfather: Duke Albert I of Saxony

Great x 1 Grandmother: Jutta of Saxony

Margaret "Maid of Norway" I Queen Scotland Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Alexander II of Scotland 2 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Beaumont Sarthe I Viscount Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Constance Fitzroy Viscountess Beaumont Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Ermengarde Beaumont Sarthe Queen Consort Scotland Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Lucie Aigle Viscountess

GrandFather: King Alexander III of Scotland 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Enguerrand Coucy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Raoul Coucy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Beaugency

Great x 2 Grandfather: Enguerrand Coucy III Lord Coucy

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert "Great" Capet I Count Dreux

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alix II Dreux

Great x 4 Grandmother: Agnes Baudemont Countess Dreux

Great x 1 Grandmother: Marie Coucy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Marie Montmirail Lady Coucy

Mother: Margaret Dunkeld Queen Consort Norway Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Empress Matilda Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandfather: King John of England Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Aenor Chatellerault Duchess Aquitaine

Great x 1 Grandfather: King Henry III of England Son of King John of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabella of Angoulême Queen Consort England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Courtenay

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Courtenay Countess Angoulême

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Courtenay

GrandMother: Margaret Queen of Scotland Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Alfonso II King Aragon

Great x 3 Grandfather: Alfonso Barcelona II Count Provence

Great x 4 Grandmother: Sancha Ivrea Queen Consort Aragon

Great x 2 Grandfather: Raymond IV Count Provence

Great x 4 Grandfather: Rainou of Sabran

Great x 3 Grandmother: Gersenda II Sabran Countess Provence

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert Savoy III Count Savoy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Savoy I Count Savoy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Beatrice Macon Countess Savoy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Beatrice Savoy Countess Provence

Great x 4 Grandfather: William I Count Geneva

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Geneva Countess Savoy