♀Beatrix of Scotland

Beatrix of Scotland was the mother of Duncan of Scotland and the twenty-eighth, thirtieth and thirty-first great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by three separate lines of descent, all through her son Duncan.

She is said to have been a daughter of Malcolm II^W, King of Scots, and the wife of Grimus, governor of the Scots Island. Their son Duncan^W succeeded his grandfather. No dates are recorded for her.

Lines of descent

All three lines pass through Duncan of Scotland, Beatrix’s son, and then through Duncan’s son Malcolm of Scotland. Nancy Jane Blanchard is Beatrix’s twenty-eighth, thirtieth and thirty-first great-granddaughter by them. The lines meet again in Joan of England (1272–1307), whose parents Edward of England (1239–1307) and Eleanor of Castile (died 1290) both descend from Beatrix and Grimus, and in Polly Knapp (1798–1863), whose parents Joseph Knapp (1763–1839) and Eunice Carver (1763–1845) both descend from them.

Notes

Source and grade

Beatrix’s parentage, her marriage and her son rest on one printed peerage, Sir Bernard Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage (1869), p. xxviii, “The Royal Line of Scotland”, which names her father as Malcolm II. It is a compiled work, so these are given as tradition and not as records.

Her father

Her father is entered here simply as Malcolm of Scotland, which is also the name of Duncan’s son, Malcolm III. Burke’s Malcolm II is the earlier king.