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Name Malcolm , King of Alba
Alias/AKA Malcolm of Alba149
Birth Date ca 0954149,153
Death Date Nov 25, 1034149,153
Death Place Angus, Scotland
Death Memo Glamis Castle
Burial Place Iona, Scotland149,153
Father Kenneth , King of Alba (?-0995)
Spouses
Unmarried
Children Bethoc
Notes for Malcolm , King of Alba
He conquered Lothian in 1018. He is said to have married an Irishwoman from Ossory.149

"He formed an alliance with King Owen the Bald of Strathclyde, and with Owen's help he regained Lothian in 1018. Malcolm didn't have any sons; and to ensure the succession of his grandson Duncan, he killed all the sons of his cousin Kenneth (III) who had been King of Alba 997 - 1005."153

His daughter Dovada was the mother of Shakespeare's Macbeth.153
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