‘Margaret Logie, Queen of Scotland’ by Michael Penman.

In The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women: From the earliest times to 2004, pp. 248 - 249.

Edited by Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes, Sian Reynolds and Rose Pipes.

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MARGARET Logie, Queen of Scotland, n. Drummond, born Perthshire c. 1330, died Marseille, France, c. 1373. Daughter of Malcolm Drummond, minor Lennox and Perthshire lord.

Margaret Drummond was the first Scotswoman since the 11th century to marry a reigning King of Scots, David I1 (1324-71), and the first Scots Q to face divorce. David had married Joan lof thc

Tower' (1322-62), daughter of Isabella of Francc and Edward I1 of England, in July 1328, under peace which closed the first phase of the Wars c

Independence. Their marriage was never happy without issue, David took mistresses after his release from English captivity (1346-57). His liaison with the shadowy Katherine Mortlmer

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probably daughter of Sir Roger ,f Inverbervie and wife of Sir William Zolluthie, whom David imposed as Earl lted region of Fife - caused Joan to ?gland and a religious life in 1358. perceived influence upon David's pro- icies proved tragic. On about 24 June s murdered on the orders of the Earl of other great lords: she was interred in lbbey, Lothian. low took up with Margaret i, wife of Sir John Logie of Logie (d. c. ~thearn, by whom she had a son, John, 1. David exploited the network of lands run by Margaret's Drummond kinfolk iominated Perthshire. Queen Joan's September 1362 and her burial in the London, freed David to marry

vho had lived with him for some time' 107, pp. 173-4), but only after her first is annulled or John Logie died. Their ked a rebellion led by the Stewart heirs ie in spring 1363. David combined the of these rebels with marriage to the Bishop of St Andrews' manor of

:h near Crail in about May 1363. Queen as gifted Perthshire lands and customs n Aberdeen and Inverkeithing, a expanded aggressively to judge from her 1 Glasgow's bishop over clerical ler bond with Sir John Kennedy of 1366 (who promised to warn her of any

t her) and her ambitious procurement of the royal lands of Annandale. She rid into stripping the Earl of Ross of his riefl? arresting the heir presumptive, {ard. But by mid-1368, David had mu1 this issueless marriage (one 15th- onicler even accused Queen Margaret of to be with child) and marry instead bar, sister of the Earl of March and ;nes Randolph ('Black Agnes'). Queen ippeal to the papacy prevented this threatened interdict upon Scotland. o recover a fortune in lands, gold wels continued after David's death on 22 February 1371: the new t 11, was spared only when Queen ed at Marseille on her way to the Pope The papacy paid for her burial. Her ogie, was stripped of his lands IP

n Transcripts, RH2/6. u

Maxwell, H. (trans.) (1907) Sir Thomas Grayi The Scuhcronica; ODNB (2004) (Margaret [n. Drummond]);

Penman, M. (2004) David 11,1329-71; Scoticbron.; SP.