♂Malcolm of Scotland

Malcolm of Scotland^W was the twenty-ninth, thirty-first and thirty-second great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006) by three separate lines of descent, all through his daughter Beatrix of Scotland.

He is said to have been King of Scots from 1003, the Malcolm II of Burke’s peerage, and to have had two daughters. Beatrix married Grimus, governor of the Scots Island, and their son Duncan succeeded his grandfather on the throne. The other daughter, Dovada, is said to have married Sigurd, Earl of Orkney. Malcolm is said to have been murdered in 1033, which left the crown to a grandson rather than a son. No birth date, wife or parents are recorded for him.

Lines of descent

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

Notes

Source and grade

Malcolm’s title, his two daughters, Beatrix’s marriage and his death in 1033 rest on one printed peerage, Sir Bernard Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage (1869), p. xxviii, “The Royal Line of Scotland”, under Malcolm the Second. It is a compiled work, so these facts are given as tradition and not as records. No dates, wife or parents are known for him.

Two Malcolms

This Malcolm of Scotland and his great-grandson Malcolm III appear here under the same name. Burke’s Malcolm II is the earlier king, so the page for Malcolm of Scotland on this site, who was Duncan’s son, is a different man.