Margaret was born in 1046 and was a member of English royal family. She was the granddaughter of King Edmund Iron side of England through his son Edward. She was beautiful like also intelligent receiving her formal education in Hungary. As some of the last remaining Saxon Royals in England, Margaret and her family’s position was uncertain and fearing for their lives they fled northwards, in the opposite direction to the advancing Normans. They were heading back to the continent from Northumbria when their ship was blown off course and landed in Fife. The Scottish King, Malcolm III, known as Malcolm Canmore offered his protection to the royal family. He was particularly protective towards Margaret. She at the beginning refused his proposition of …show more content…
She was a prime mover in the reform of the Church in Scotland. Under Queen Margaret's leadership Church councils promoted Easter communion and abstinence from work on a Sunday. Margaret founded churches, monasteries and pilgrimage hostels and established the Royal Mausoleum at Dunfermline Abbey with monks from Canterbury. She was especially fond of Scottish saints and instigated the Queen's Ferry over the Forth so that pilgrims could more easily reach the Shrine of St. Andrew. Mass was changed from the many dialects of Gaelic spoken throughout Scotland to the unifying Latin. By adopting Latin to celebrate the Mass she believed that all Scots could worship together in unity, along with the other Christians of Western Europe. Many people believe that in doing this, it was not only Queen Margaret's goal to unite the Scots, but also the two nations of Scotland and England in an attempt to end the bloody warfare between the two countries. In setting the agenda for the church in Scotland Queen Margaret also ensured the dominance of the Roman Church over the native Celtic Church in the north of the