Margaret of Scotland, Countess of Kent

Margaret of Scotland (* between early 1187 and mid- 1195, † 1259 ) was a Scottish princess and her marriage with Hubert de Burgh Countess of Kent.

Life

Margaret was the eldest child of the Scottish king William I and his wife Ermengarde de Beaumont. She had two sisters, Isabella and Marjorie, and a brother, the future King Alexander II of Scotland, and several half-siblings.

Initially, Margaret was probably intended as a successor to her father. The decision taken by the English in 1195 by King Richard I plan Margarete become engaged as Scottish heiress with the later Holy Roman Emperor Otto ( IV ) failed because of the resistance of Scottish nobleman, the David, Earl of Huntingdon as William 's preferred successor. 1198 William I then got his son Alexander, who became the new heir to the throne. 1209 was a marriage of Margaret with the later King Henry (III ) in conversation, but did not materialize. Finally, she became the third wife of the much older and in opposition to it coming from low nobility Hubert de Burgh. Their wedding took place at York on June 19, 1221. At that time, Hubert de Burgh was actually the ruler of England for the underage Henry III.

Margaret and her husband had a daughter named Megotta (also known as Margaret ), who came to the world in 1222. 1227 took over Henry III. even the government and appointed Hubert de Burgh for his contributions to the Earl of Kent. The latter is five years later, in 1232, to have his divorce from Margaret intends, but was in the same year, the victim of a conspiracy of his enemies and landed in prison. Margaret lost her personal fortune and fled to the South East England town of Bury St Edmunds. Your situation improved in 1234, when her now escaped from prison husband the favor of Henry III. reasonably recovered. Without the consent of the king they married their daughter Megotta secretly with the minor Richard de Clare, 5th Earl of Hertford. As this marriage connection in 1236 was known Hubert de Burgh got in trouble once again, and although he claimed to have not initiated the marriage, and finally, despite Megottas death in 1237 he lost his previous political influence completely. Margarete died in the fall of 1259, sixteen years after her husband, and was just like this in the Church of the Black Friars buried in London.