Ermengarde (Beaumont) Queen of Scots (abt. 1158 - 1233)

Born about 1158 in Beaumont-le-Vicomte, Maine, France

Ancestors

Wife of William (Dunkeld) King of Scots — married 5 Sep 1189 in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

Descendants

Died 11 Feb 1233 at about age 75 in Balmerino Abbey, Fife, Fifeshire, Scotland

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Biography

Family

Ermengarde was a daughter of Richard de Beaumont, Vicomte of Beaumont-en-Maine and Lucy de l'Aigle.^[1] She is believed to have had six siblings (including at least one brother, Raoul, and one sister, Constance) but the date of her birth is unknown.^[1]

Marriage and Children

She was proposed by Henry II as a bride for William the Lion, King of Scots, but this proposal was initially rejected by the Scottish nobility because Ermengarde's paternal grandmother, Constance, was an illegitimate daughter of Henry I of England, making her royal line of descent slightly tainted.^[2] W.W. Scott speculates that because a contemporary writer referred to her as a girl ("puella) she may have been only twelve years old or even slightly younger and that her youth may have been a further reason the Scots objected,^[2] although no source is provided for this suggestion. King William was 43 years of age at the time. The matter was settled when Henry agreed to pay for four days of wedding celebrations and included Edinburgh Castle as part of Ermengarde's dowry.^[2] William I, King of Scots, and Ermengarde de Beaumont were married 5 September 1186 at Woodstock, Oxfordshire.^[3] Following the festivities, the young bride was escorted to Scotland by the Bishop of Glasgow, and Henry and William departed for Marlborough (supposedly to do some hunting).^[2]

There were at least five children from this marriage:

• Alexander II, King of Scots; b. 24 Aug 1198;^[4][5][6] m(1) 19 Jun 1221 Joan Plantagenet;^[5][6] m(2) Marie de Coucy;^[5][7] d. 8 Jul 1249^[5][6]

• Malcolm Dunkeld; b. bef. 1214^[8]

• Margaret Dunkeld; m. Jun 1221 Hubert de Burgh, justiciar of England and Ireland;^[9][10] d. 15 Nov 1259^[11]

• Isabella Dunkeld; m. 1 Jun 1225 Roger Bigod, 6th earl of Norfolk;^[12][13] d. aft. Oct 1263^[12]

• Margery Dunkeld; m. 1 Aug 1235 Gilbert Marshal, 7th earl of Pembroke;^[14][15][13] d. 17 Nov 1244^[15][13][16]

Death

Ermengarde survived her husband by almost eighteen years. King William I died 4 December 1214 and was buried before the high altar in the church at Arbroath Abbey in Angus,^[17][18] and Queen Ermengarde died 11 February 1232/3 and was buried at Balmerina Abbey in Fife, which she had founded.^[3][16]

Source

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 1, pp. 302-303 BEAUMONT 4.iii. Ermengarde de Beaumont.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Scott, W.W. Ermengarde (Ermengarde de Beaumont). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online, 23 Sep 2004, available here by subscription.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, p. 583 SCOTLAND 4. William the Lion.
4. ↑ Skene, William F. John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas (1862), Annals, XXIII, p. 270
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scotts Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), vol. 1, p. 6.
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, pp. 590-593 SCOTLAND 5. Alexander II.
7. ↑ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), p. 90.
8. ↑ Innes. Liber S. Marie de Dryburgh (1847), 102 [describing a grant from King William to Dryburgh Priory of 20s. per annum of the farm of his burgh of Roxburgh "for the salvation of my soul and of Malcolm my son and my ancestors and heirs."] cited in Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, p. 584 SCOTLAND 4.ii. Malcolm of Scotland.
9. ↑ Stevenson, J. (ed). Chronica de Mailros. Edinburgh: the Societatis Edinburgensis (1835), ["...Eodem anno tradita est domina Margareta, filia pie recordationis Willelmi regis Scotie, et soror domini Alexandre regis, domino Huberto de Burc, justiciario Anglie, scilicet et Scotie..."], p. 138.
10. ↑ Turnbull, William. Extracta e variis Cronicis Scocie. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Printing Co. (1842), ["Humbertus de Burgo, justiciarius Anglie, disponsauit Margaretam sororem regis Alexandri apud Londone, anno predicto."], p. 92.
11. ↑ McCray Catalogue, Aynho Deeds, Magdalene College, Oxford University, p. 31 #36 undated grant of Thomas de Crewelton, son of Robert de Niweman, of Frutewelle, to the Hospital at Aynho, Northamptonshire "to hold upon condition of celebrating yearly on the day of St. Machute [15 November] the anniversary of Margaret Countess of Kent, deceased..." cited in Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, p. 587 SCOTLAND 4.iii. Margaret of Scotland.
12. ↑ ^{12.0 12.1} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, p. 587 SCOTLAND 4.iv. Isabel of Scotland
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1 13.2} Paul, Sir James Balfour. The Scotts Peerage. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1904), vol. 1, p. 5.
14. ↑ Stevenson. J. (ed). Chronica de Mailros. Edinburgh: the Societatis Edinburgesis (1835), (A.D. 1235: "Item, desponsata est domina Mariori, soror domini Alexandri regis Scottorum apud Beruuich, in die sancti Petri ad vincula [August 1], cujus desponsationi interfuit ipse rex et magnates ejus regni, sicut ex altera parte dominus G. Anglie marschallus et comes de Penbruch, qui eam duxit in uxorem, cum multis nobilibus viris Anglie."), p. 147.
15. ↑ ^{15.0 15.1} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), vol. 4, p. 588 SCOTLAND 4.v. Margery of Scotland
16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1} Dunbar, Sir Archibald H. Scottish Kings: A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005-1625. Edinburgh: D. Douglas (1899), p. 83.
17. ↑ Skene, William F. John of Fordun's Chronicle of the Scottish Nation. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas (1862), Annals, XXVIII, pp 274-275.
18. ↑ Skene, William F. Chronicles of the Picts and Scots. Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House (1867), p. 175.

See Also:

• Harvey, Charles C.H. (ed). Calendar of Writs Preserved at Yester House 1166-1625. Edinburgh: J. Skinner and Co. (1916), pp. 6-7.

• Lawrie, Archibald C. (ed). Annals of the Reigns of Malcolm and William 1153-1214. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (1910), pp. 265-266.