Chapter 453: King Duncan's Son
The wedding is over, but that doesn't mean William can enjoy a relaxed honeymoon as a couple, he also has to deal with the benefits of the wedding from King Macbeth of Scotland. The threat of Mureb.
This King MacPace was a despicable regicide and usurper who brutally murdered his own monarch - King Duncan I of Scotland. Dunkeld, take his place.
William really doesn't know much about the mediocre monarch who founded the Dunkeld dynasty and the tragic protagonist of one of Shakespeare's four tragedies, "Macbeth", but he has a very powerful intelligence agency that can collect the information he wants, let alone the life of a recently dead Scottish king.
Duncan I (1001 – 1040), King of Scotland (1034 – 1040), was the son of Crinan and his mother was the daughter of Malcolm II.
On November 25, 1034, his grandfather, Malcolm II, died, and he succeeded him as king. He may be Malcolm's designated heir, as he inherits the throne without anyone opposing him.
According to the narrative of John of Fulton, Duncan may have been established as heir by his grandfather in 1018 or 1034, and the kingdom of Strathclyde was made a fief of Duncan. Modern historians are skeptical of this view.
Duncan's early reign was very stable, and Macbeth was made Duke of Mali by Duncan during this period.
The duke may have been no different from the count at the time, but still had the Roman spirit of "leader of the war".
Linking this to the fact that the "Duke of Franks" and Godwin of Wessex, England, is known as the Duke of Wessex, suggests that Macbeth may have been behind the scenes.
In 1039, Duncan led a Scottish army to besiege Durham, an expedition that ended in disaster.
The following year, Duncan led an army north to attack the Duchy of Mali in order to defeat Macbeth in Mali.
Duncan was killed there, and Macbeth succeeded King of Alba, King of Scotland, on 14 August 1040 as a descendant of the royal family.
Duncan is generally believed to be buried near Elgin and may have later been relocated to Iona Island.
The historical figure of Duncan I became famous mainly due to Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth.
However, in the play, Macbeth is the villain of the usurper for power, and Duncan I, whom he defeated on the battlefield, becomes the dying king.
In fact, Duncan was only 39 years old when he died, just four years older than Macbeth.
William's concern for a Scottish king who had been dead for many years was because of his two sons, Prince Malcolm of Scotland. Dunkeld and Donald. Dunkeld took refuge at the Winchester court in England, where they asked William for help.
This was the time of the usurper King Macbeth of Scotland. At the time of Mureber's invasion of the Kingdom of England, William was particularly interested in the former Scottish King Duncan I and his sons, and he tried to identify certain things that could be used against the Kingdom of Scotland and the usurper MacPeth.
Malcolm II, Duncan's maternal grandfather and Malcolm's great-grandfather, died, and Malcolm's father, Duncan, became king later in 1034.
Malcolm's mother was Duke of Northumbria, Sword. Northumbria's niece, Earl of Northumbria, Edred. Bamburgh's daughter.
Duncan's reign was unsuccessful, and he was killed in battle with Macbeth in Mali on 15 August 1040.
Duncan was very young when he died, and in 1045 Malcolm and his brother Donald, as well as Malcolm's family, attempted to overthrow Macbeth, but the result was a complete failure. Dunkild was killed in this rebellion.
Subsequently, Malcolm's mom, Eldred. Bamburgh took her two sons to the court of England to ask for assistance from King William I of England, an enemy of the Macbeth family.
This is how it all began, but William was dealing with a rebellion in the Kingdom of England and then the Holy See and the Pope, and he had no time to take care of a young widow of the former King of Scotland and two exiled princes.
The daughter of the Bamburgh, the widow of King Duncan of Scotland, lost patience after two years of waiting, and she asked William to help her son Malcolm reclaim the throne of Scotland on the condition that she married the House of Normandy.
The beautiful Scottish queen was now under 24 years of age, and was at the height of women's attractiveness, and if it weren't for William's betrothed marriage, he might well have been tempted to marry the young widow.
However, since he was married, he could only regret to give up the young and beautiful widow of King Duncan.
"I could have married my uncle Ladolph and Queen Elfred, and they were just right." William thought so.
William's uncle and Prime Minister Rudorf. Morality. His marriage in Normandy was one of his family troubles, and he always refused to marry on the pretext that he did not have a suitable noblewoman, and remained single until now, much to his concern.
Just as the widow of the King of Scotland was interested in marrying the Normandy family, William thought of his uncle, and he planned to arrange a marriage between the two.
As for her request, William said that he could accept it, just as King Macpeth of Scotland sent troops to invade England, he could use the influence of Prince Malcolm and the former King Duncan I of Scotland to raise a resistance force in the Kingdom of Scotland to contain King MacPeth on the side.
William never wanted to help Malcolm regain the Scottish throne, he was just a pawn in William's hands to disrupt the Scottish kingdom, as for whether he could regain the Scottish throne as in history, it depended on his own creation.
According to historical records, Malcolm died on November 13, 1093, as King of Scotland, and he was the eldest son of Duncan I. Malcolm reigned for 35 years.
After his father was killed by Macbeth in 1040, he took refuge for several years in the palace of Edward the Confessor, King of England.
In 1054, Malcolm returned to Scotland and conquered the south of Scotland.
In 1057, Malcolm killed Macbeth with Seaward, Earl of Northumbria, in Longfa South, and ascended the throne the following year after executing Macbeth's stepson, Lurachi.
In 1072, Malcolm recognized King William of England as suzerainty and married Margaret (later St. Margaret), an exiled princess of England, as his second wife, but soon fell short of his feudal obligations.
Malcolm III fought a series of attacks against the Kingdom of England, most likely aiming for the battle for Northumbria, but these wars had little effect.
He invaded England 5 times, and was killed by the forces of William II the Redface during the last invasion.
His greatest contribution was to maintain the Dunkeld dynasty for 35 years.
Although he was the "Restorationist of the Dunkeld dynasty", he had no outstanding achievements compared to his descendants, and his youngest son, David I, did many far-reaching things.
Malcolm III's second wife was Margaret of Wessex, who later blessed, and was the only royal saint in Scotland.
Malcolm III was also a devout Christian, and he built Dunfermline Abbey, which became the main religious site in Scotland at the time, and promoted the reform of the Church.
Hundreds of years after his death, he was nicknamed Canmore, "King of the Big Heads", and it is recorded that he had a long neck.
From here, William could see that Prince Malcolm was not a puppet willing to follow his instructions, and that he had invaded England five times in history in order to seize the Duchy of Northumbria, which had to make William wary of Prince Malcolm.