Duncan I, King Scotland

b 1007, Of, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
d 14 Aug 1040, Iona, near Elgin, , Scotland
bur Iona, near Elgin, , Scotland
	Duncan, Lord Of Mormaer
	\| b 0949
Crinan De Mormaer, [Abbot]
\|b 0975	\|
\|d 1045	Mrs-Duncan Mormaer
\|	b 0951
Duncan I, King Scotland			Malcolm I, King Scotland	>
\|Sibyl Fitzsiward, [Queen]		Kenneth II, King Scotland	Mrs-Malcolm, Queen Of Scotland
\|m 1030	Malcolm II King Scotland	b 0932
\|, , , Scotland	\|b 0958	Mrs-Kenneth, Queen Of Scotland
Bethoc (Beatrix) Princess Scotland	d 25 Nov 1034	b 0936
b 0984	\|
	Mrs-Malcolm Queen Of Scotland
	b 0962

Children

1	<	Malcolm III, King Scotland
2		Donald 'Bane' III, Scotland
3		Melmare (Melkofr), Earl Atholl, [Prince]

Notes

Macbeth siezed the throne of Scotland in 1040 after defeating and killing Duncan I near elgin. He based his claim to the crown on his wife's royal descent (Duncan's former wife Sybal). Malcolm III, son of Duncan I, and Earl Siward of Northumberland defeated Macbeth at Dunsinane in 1054, but they did not dethrone him. Three years later, Malcolm III killed Macbeth at Lumphanan. Macbeth's stepson Lulach reigned for a few months, and then Malcolm III succeeded him as king.

William Shakespeare based his play, Macbeth, one of his greatest tragedies, upon a distorted version of these events which he found in Raphael Holinshed's 'Chronicle of Scottish History.' The only kernel of historical truth in the play is Duncan's death at the hand of Macbeth. From this fact, Shakespeare drew his portrait of ambition leading to a violent and tragic end.

Source: 'The World Book Encyclopedia', 1968, p M4. 'Ancestrial Roots of Sixty Colonists Who Came to New England between 1623 and 1650', 1969, Frederick Lewis Weis, p 111.

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