EN/EW/1783

verbatim

Et eodem mense Aprili die sancti Marci anno eodem coronatus est Rex Malcolmus et triginta sex annis regnauit . Ultimo anno regni sui fundauit nouam ecclesiam Dunelmensem, et ecclesiam sancte trinitatis de Dunfermlyn, et multis refecit donariis . Nupsit autem sanctissime ac religiosissime mulieri beate videlicet Margarete filie regis Edwardi Regis Anglie, genuitque ex ea sex filios quorum tres ante patrem defuncti, alii tres successiue regnauerunt . Ipse Malcolmus in obsidendo Castrum de Awnwik occisus est xiij die Nouembris; et gloriosa illa ac omni tempore recolenda Regina Margareta, quarto die sequenti, perceptis in ecclesia sacramentis ecclesiasticis, animam sanctam celo reddidit.

summary

And in the same month of April on St Mark's day, King Malcolm was crowned and reigned for thirty-six years. In the last year of his reign he founded the new church of Durham, and the church of the Holy Trinity of Dunfermline, and revived it with many gifts. He married the most holy and religious blessed woman namely Margaret, daughter of King Edward, king of England, and sired, by her, six sons, three of whom predeceased their father, the other three ruled successively. Malcolm himself was killed besieging Alnwick Castle on 13 November; and that glorious Queen Margaret who is to be adored for all time, followed four days later, after receiving the sacraments in church, and returned her saintly soul to heaven.

folio/page

51

charter period

James II

charter date range

?? - ??

document reference

DO/EW/1388