Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland
Margaret Drummond | |
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Queen consort of Scotland | |
Tenure | 1364–1369 |
Born | c. 1340 |
Died | after 31 January 1375 |
Spouse | Sir John Logie |
Issue | John of Logie |
House | Clan Drummond |
Father | Sir Malcolm Drummond |
Mother | Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith |
Margaret Drummond (c. 1340 – after 31 January 1375), known also by her first married name as Margaret Logie, was the second queen of David II of Scotland and a daughter of Sir Malcolm de Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox (b. after 1295 – d. 17 October 1346 at the Battle of Neville's Cross, Durham, England) by his wife Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith.[citation needed]
Margaret first married Sir John Logie of that Ilk, having by him a son, John of Logie.[1][2]
To counter Stewart influence, David II of Scotland pardoned John Logie in September 1343, son of a conspirator against Robert the Bruce in 1320, and restored to him the large lordship of Strathgartney bordering the earldoms of Menteith and Lennox. Strathgartney had been held by Sir John Menteith of Arran and Knapdale's family (cadets of the Stewarts and also former keepers of Dumbarton and guardians of Menteith). At the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, the king was apparently deserted by some of his subjects and led off to eleven years' captivity in England. After Neville's Cross the Steward as lieutenant would allow John Menteith to recover Strathgartney: This led David, when he returned from England in 1357/58, to try again to restore Logie's sasine.[3]
By 1361/62 Margaret was a mistress to King David who was widowed from his first wife,
Margaret then married
Margaret survived the King, and was alive on 31 January 1375, but seems to have died soon after that date.[9] Her funeral was paid for by Pope Gregory XI.[10]
References
- ^ Fraser, Douglas Book vol i, pp248-249
- ^ Bain, Cal.Doc.Scot. p.22 no 93. In which he is gifted a "parcel-gilt cup by the English King valued at £4 5s 1d
- ^ "The Scots at the Battle of Neville's Cross, by Michael A. Penman, page 168. Retrieved 7 August 2016" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 August 2017. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ Regesta Regum Scottorum VI: The Acts of David II, 1329-71, ed. B. Webster (Edinburgh, 1982), nos. 75, 212, 327.
- ^ S. Boardman, The Early Stewart Kings: Robert II and Robert III, 1371-1406 (East Linton, 1996), 16-19
- ^ Fraser, Menteith, i, 109-15.
- ^ Barrell, A. D. M. (2000). Medieval Scotland. Cambridge University Press. p. 132.
- ISBN 1-84119-096-9.
- ^ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Scottish Kings - A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899, p.156
- ^ Barrell, A. D. M. (2000). Medieval Scotland. Cambridge University Press. p. 132.
- Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy
- A pedigree of the Drummonds