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Edmund (
Etmond mac Maíl Coluim or
Eadmund Margotsson) (after
1070 – after
1097) was a son of
Máel Coluim mac Donnchada and his second wife
Margaret. He may be found on some lists of Scottish kings, but there's no evidence that he was king.
On the death of Edmund's father and his heir-designate, Edward, his eldest son by Margaret, in November 1093, Máel Coluim's brother
Domnall Bán took the throne. Edmund and his younger brothers
Edgar,
Alexander and
David fled abroad, to
England, to join their half-brother
Donnchad at the court of
William Rufus.
In 1094 Donnchad, with Rufus's blessing and the support of landless nobles from the English court and landowners in Lothian, drove Domnall Bán from the throne. It is supposed that Edmund, as the next in age, was Donnchad's heir-designate. Donnchad was forced by a rebellion to send his English allies home, and was shortly afterwards killed. The killer was
Máel Petair,
Mormaer of Mearns, but the
Annals of Ulster and
William of Malmesbury agree that the killing was done on the orders of Domnall Bán and Edmund.
What caused Edmund to join with his uncle is unknown. It is assumed that Domnall appointed him his heir as Domnall had no sons of his own, and it's thought that Edmund was granted an
appanage to rule.
Edmund's maternal uncle
Edgar Ætheling came north in 1097, driving Domnall from the throne and installing Edgar as King, with Alexander as his heir-designate. While Domnall was mutilated and imprisoned, dying in 1099, Edmund was more fortunate. He was tonsured and sent to the
Cluniac monastery at
Montacute in
Somerset. The exact date of his death is unknown.
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