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Margaret Drummond Queen Consort of Scotland
- Preferred Name: Margaret Drummond Queen Consort of Scotland[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]
- Alternate Name: Logie
- Alternate Name: Bruce
- Gender: F
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: in Queen Consort of Scotland at LATI: N6.2514 LONG: E111.9641 with note: GEDCOM data
- King+David+divorced+her+20/03/1369+for+Infertiliy..+However,Margaret+made+a+successful+plea+to+rever: Pope Gregory 11th. Paid for Margaret's Funeral.. with note: Description: David's 34 yr.Marriage to Joan produced no children, so likely David was infertile..
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- Death: 31 JAN 1375 in Avignon, Jura, Franche-Comté, France at LATI: N6.3909 LONG: E0.8457
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Queen Consort of Scotland
- FSID: LWL3-HXY
- Second+Marriage: with note: Description: Margaret married King David of Scotland after her first husband Sir John Logie passed away.
- Birth: 1325 in Ruthven, Angus, Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N6.6243 LONG: E3.1667
- Burial: FEB 1375
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
The second wife of David II, King of Scots ( The only survivingg son of Robert1 the Bruce King of Scots), Margaret Drummond was born in Perthshire, Scotland in about 1330. She was the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, a minor Lennox and Perthshire lord, and his wife from the Graham family, possibly named Annabelle. In 1314, Sir Malcolm fought at the decisive Battle of Bannockburn, a landmark in Scottish history. Stirling Castle, a Scots royal fortress, occupied by the English, was under siege by the Scottish army. King Edward II of England, who was at the battle, assembled a formidable force to stop the siege. This attempt failed, and Edward II’s army was defeated by a smaller army commanded by Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots. Sir Malcolm is credited with the use of caltrops at the battle, a weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spikes arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base to injure horses and unseat their riders. The caltrops were spread on the ground prior to the Battle of Bannockburn and were very effective against the English horses. After the battle, the Clan Drummond was given lands in Perthshire by Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots. In memory of Malcolm’s feat, caltrops appear in many versions of the Drummond coat of arms and the Clan Drummond motto is “Gang Warily” (Go carefully).
Margaret had at least one sibling:
Sir John Drummond of Stobhall (born circa 1300 – died circa 1360), married Mary de Montfichet, daughter and co-heiress with her sisters of Sir William de Montfichet, of Stobhall, Cargill and Auchterarder, had issue including Annabelle Drummond who married John Stewart, Earl of Carrick (the future Robert III, King of Scots), son of Robert II, King of Scots
Sir Malcolm Drummond, a son of Margaret’s brother, obtained the clan home, Stobhall Castle, from Margaret after she became Queen of Scots.
Margaret first married Sir John Logie, and the couple had a son John of Logie, born about 1350. As very young children, David II, King of Scots, son of Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots from his second marriage, and Joan of the Tower, daughter of King Edward II of England, were married under the terms of the peace which ended the Wars of Scottish Independence which were fought between Scotland and England. The marriage was unhappy and childless, and David had mistresses. Around 1360, David and Margaret began an affair (whilst she was still married to Sir John Logie who only died in 1363 and DavidII was still married to Joan)
In 1362, Joan of the Tower died ( probably from the Black Death), leaving David free to marry Margaret, who had lived with him for some time. Around 1363, either Margaret’s first husband died or her first marriage was annulled and David and Margaret made plans to marry. However, the marriage plans provoked a rebellion by supporters of David’s nephew and heir presumptive Robert Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Robert was the only child of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the Bruce by his first wife Isabella of Mar. The rebels eventually submitted and on February 20, 1364, David and Margaret married at Inchmurdoch, the manor of the Bishop of St. Andrews near Crail, Scotland.
History has depicted Margaret as beautiful, but also arrogant and greedy. As Queen of Scots, Margaret received land in Perthshire and the customs revenue from Aberdeen and Inverkeithing. She also managed to procure royal lands in Annandale for her son John of Logie. Margaret pressed her husband into stripping his first cousin William, 5th Earl of Ross of his lands and title and briefly arresting his heir presumptive Robert Stewart, High Steward of Scotland.
By 1368, Margaret’s behavior and her failure to produce an heir had convinced David to annul their marriage. Instead, he planned to marry his current mistress Agnes Dunbar. David had the marriage annulled on March 20, 1369 on grounds of Margaret’s infertility. However, Margaret traveled to Avignon, in southern France, and made a successful appeal to the Pope Urban V to reverse the annulment which had been pronounced against her in Scotland. Since Margaret had a child in her first marriage, it seems likely that David himself was infertile, since his thirty-four-year marriage to his first wife was childless. David never did marry Agnes Dunbar. He died unexpectedly on February 22, 1371 at Edinburgh Castle and was buried at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, now in ruins. His nephew, the son of his half-sister Marjorie, succeeded him as Robert II, King of Scots, the first monarch of the House of Stewart. Around 1373, Margaret died in Marseilles, France. Pope Gregory XI paid for her funeral and burial. Her burial place is unknown, but it is assumed it is in France.
Works Cited
“Clan Drummond”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017. “David II Of Scotland”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017. Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary Of Scottish Women. 1st ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Print. “Margaret Drummond: Genealogics”. Genealogics.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017. “Margaret Drummond, Queen Of Scotland”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017. “Marguerite Drummond”. Fr.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.
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=== http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Drummond_(Queen) ===
Was the second queen of David II of Scotland and a daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, Knt. (died circa 1346) by his wife Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith.
Margaret first married Sir John Logie of that Ilk, having by him a son, John of Logie. She later served as a mistress to King David who was widowed from his first wife, Joan of The Tower, on 14 August 1362.
Margaret then married David II of Scotland at Inchmurdach in Fife, on 20 February 1364. They had no children and the King divorced her on 20 March 1369 on grounds of infertility. Margaret, however, travelled to Avignon, in southern France, and made a successful appeal to the Pope to reverse the sentence of divorce which had been pronounced against her in Scotland. Having borne a child from her first marriage, it seems likely that David himself was infertile, since his thirty-seven year marriage to his first wife also bore no issue.
Margaret survived the King, and was alive on 31 January 1375, but seems to have died soon after that date.
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=== From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
=== !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
!NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; July 1996 (c), data as of 2 January 1996; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
=== From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
=== 1 John/Logie ===
1 John/Logie
=== David II tried unsuccessfully to divorce ===
David II tried unsuccessfully to divorce her after she produced no heirs.
=== AFN: 9G47-X6 ===
AFN: 9G47-X6
=== Child ===
Margaret had a child by first husband when she married, David King of Scots. David King of Scots had no bio children. So was "John of Logie" name changed to "David"? See LTV9-LRL
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=== SISTER OF QUEEN ANABELLA Dau of Sir John ===
SISTER OF QUEEN ANABELLA Dau of Sir John Drummond of Stoball and MaryMontifex; m. Sir Colin Iogantach Campbell of Luchow. [Greg Martin
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=== (21) dead ===
(21) dead
Preferred Parents:
Father: Malcolm Drummond -Tenth Thane of Lennox, b. 1296 in Stobhall, Inchmahome/Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland d. 17 OCT 1346 in Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, England, United Kingdom
Mother: Annabella Graham, b. 1299 in Stobhall, Cargill, Perthshire, Scotland d. 1358 in Fearn, Ross-shire, Scotland
Family 1: John Erskine Logie of that Ilk, b. 1324 in Logie, Fife, Scotland d. 1363
- m. 20 FEB 1348 in Ruthven, Perthshire, Scotland
- Margaret Logie, b. 1357 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom d. 1376 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Family 2: David de Bruce, b. 5 MAR 1324 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland d. 22 FEB 1371 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
- m. 20 FEB 1364 in Inchmurdach, Fife, Scotland
Sources:
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond -
Author: Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222799
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond -
Author: Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2737222797
- Title: Roots Web World Connect Project
Author: Roots Web World Connect Project, database: :3281087.
- Title: Wikipedia Margaret Drummond
Publication: Name: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Drummond,_Queen_of_Scotland;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond - birth-name: Margaret Drummond
Author: Ancestry Family Trees, Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members., Page number: Ancestry Family Trees
Note: birth-name: Margaret Drummond
This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3245633205
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond - birth: about 1330;
Author: "International Genealogical Index™ - Version 5.00", The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Common Index of International Genealogical Information (Salt LakeCity:UT, Family History Center, July 1996 © data as of 2, SLC - Family History Library, 25 N. West Temple Street~Salt Lake City, UT 84150 U.S.A.~SLC - Family History Library~25 N. West Temple Street~~Salt Lake City~~UT~~84150~~U.S.A., Page number: Film: Number: #1985350
Note: birth: about 1330;
Repository:Family History Library35 N West Temple StreetSalt Lake City,UT 84150 USA
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3248100115
- Title: Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-Current
Publication: Name: http://search.ancestry.com/collections/9289/records/31928225;
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond - birth-name: Margaret Drummond
Author: Public Member Trees, Ancestry.com, Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;, www.ancestry.com, null, Page number: Database online.
Note: birth-name: Margaret Drummond
birth: 1330; Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom
death: 1375;
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3243985408
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Margaret Drummond - Event: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
Author: "Héraldique européenne", Arnaud Bunel , Coats of Arms for European Royalty and Nobility(http://www.heraldique-europeenne.org, Arnaud Bunel, 1998) , Internet, Arnaud Bunel, France~Arnaud Bunel~France
Note: Event: ; Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
"Armigerous" (ahr-MIJ-ehr-us) adjective
Bearing or entitled to bear heraldicarms.
The reason the notion of a family crest was brought into the languagewasthat those who were armigerous (entitled to bear arms) used to put theircrest or achieveme
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