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- RESEARCH_NOTES:
1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
“DUNCAN II, King of Scots, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He was a hostage to King William the Conqueror in 1072. He was released and knighted by King William II of England in 1087. He married about 1090 ETHELREDA (or OCTREDA) OF NORTHUMBERLAND, daughter of Gospatric I, Earl of Northumberland. They had two sons, Alexander and William. He became King of Scots after he deposed his uncle, King Donald Bane, in May 1094. In 1094 he gave lands to the church at Durham, Dunferm]ine, and St. Andrews. He was insnared and betrayed by his half-brother, Edmund, and his paternal uncle, Donald Bane, 12 Nov. 1094. Duncan II, King of Scots, was killed by Malpeder MacLoen, morrnaer of the Meams, at Monacheden 12 Nov. 1094. He was buried at Iona.
Nicolson & Burn Hist. & Antiqs. of the Counties of Westmorland & Cumberland 2 (1777): 69-77. Hutchinson Hist. of the County of Cumberland 2 (1794): 27-28 (Lucy-Multon ped.). Dalrymple Annals of Scotland 1 (1797): 52-54. Rud Codcum Manuscriptorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelmensis (1825): 217 ("Id. Nov. [13 Nov.]. Ob. Malcolmus et Dunecanus Reges Scottorum et Margarita Regina"). Scots Peerage 1 (1904): 2-3 (sub Kings of Scotland); 3 (1906): 241-245 (sub Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar). Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to AD. 1153 (1905): 271 ("The older writers call Duncan `nothus,' a bastard, but when Torfxus relying on the Orkneyinga Saga, stated that Malcolm Canmore had married Ingibiorg, the widow of Earl Thorfin, and had by her a son, Duncan, later Scottish historians began to consisder Duncan to be legitimate."), 273 ("The Orkneyinga Saga stated that 'King Melkolf and Ingibiorg had a son Dungad, King of Scotland, the father of William, who was a good man. His son was William the Noble, whom all the Scots wished to take for their King' (Coll. de Rebus Alban., p. 346). In 1179 King William the Lion had some trouble with a revolt of the men of Ross and Moray under a claimant who (Fordun says) 'pretended to be the son of William the son of Duncan the Bastard."). Notes & Queries 10th Ser. 3 (1905): 107-108 (D.M.R. suggests that Duncan II, King of Scots [died 10941, may have married a daughter of Lulach of Moray, rather than Ethelreda, sister of Waldef). Dunbar Scottish Kings (1906): 25-34, 37-40. Anderson Early Sources of Scottish Hist. 1 (1922). Hedley Northumberland Fams. 1(1968): 238-241. Anderson Early Sources of Scottish Hist. 2 (1990): 36-39. Barrow Kingship & Unity: Scot/and, 1000-1306 (1989). Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 57. Broun Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots (1999). Duncan Kingship Of the Scots 842-1292 (2002). Barrow Kingdom of the Scots (2003). Magnusson Scotland. The Stag of a Nation (2003): 62. Haskins Soc. Jour. 19 (2008): 108-110. Potter Gothic Kings of Britain: The Lives of 31 Medieval Rulers, 1016-1399 (2009).
Children of King Duncan II, by Ethelreda (or Octreda) of Dunbar:
i. ALEXANDER FITZ DUNCAN. He witnessed a charter of his uncle, King Alexander I, c. 1120. Liber Ecclesie de Scone (1863): 13 (charter of Alexander I, King of Scots, and his wife, Queen Sibyl; charter 'witnessed by his nephew [nepos], Alexander). Lawrie Early Scottish Charters prior to A.D. 1153 (1905): 28-30 (charter of Alexander I, King of Scots, dated c.1120), 262.
ii. WILLIAM FITZ DUNCAN [see next].”
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