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  • ID: I3239
  • Name: Domnall III bán KING OF SCOTS 1 2
  • Name: Donald III "Bane" of Scotland KING OF SCOTS 3 4 5 6 7
  • Name: Domnall bán EARL OF GOWRIE
  • Note: He became Mormaer (or Earl) of Gowrie about 1060. 1
  • Name: Domnall MAC DONNCHADA 1
  • Sex: M
  • Change Date: 21 JUL 2010
  • Birth: BET 1033 AND 1034 in of Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland 8
  • Death: 1099 in Rescobie, Angusshire, Scotland 3
  • Event: Accedence NOV 1093
  • Note: The death of his brother King Malcolm threw Scotland into a virtual civil war. From his refuge in the Western Isles, where he had been living since MacBeth had killed his father King Duncan I, Donald bán claimed the vacant throne and was crowned as Domnall III at the age of 60. It was the Celtic backlash aginst the anglicisation of the court; his accession seems to have been backed by the native aristocracy, who had come to resent the foreign influences associated with Malcolm's wife, Queen Margaret. According to the Anglo-Saxon Chroncile entry for the year 1093, "the Scots drove out all the English who had been with King Malcolm". The surviving children of Malcolm and Margaret fled to the English court for safety. 9 10
  • Event: Note BET MAY 1094 AND NOV 1094
  • Note: As a protege of King William II Rufus, Donald's nephew Duncan, eldest son of Malcolm, was a fully "normanized" Celt who had sworn fealty to the English king. With the help of an English and French army raised by William II of England, Duncan ousted his uncle Donald III and was accepted as King of Scots as Duncan II--but only on condition that he dismissed his alien supporters. It was a fatal promise: before the year was out he had been murdered and Donald III resumed his interrupted reign. 11 12
  • Burial: 1099 Iona, Scotland
  • Note: He was the last King of Scots buried on Iona. 11
  • Event: Biography
  • Note:
    Donald III of Scotland (Domnall mac Donnchada) (c. 1033 - 1099) was king of Scotland from 1093 to 1094 and 1094 to 1097.

    In his native Gaelic language he was known as Domnall Bán which means Fair Donald. The minor character of Donalbain in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is loosely based on him, this name is an English phonetic spelling of the former name. He is also known as Donaldbane, Donald Ban, Donald Bane, or Donald Bain.

    He was born about 1033 and became Mormaer (or Earl) of Gowrie about 1060. He was the son of Duncan I, brother of the previous king Malcolm III, and uncle of his successor Duncan II.

    Donald III took the throne of Scotland in 1093 on the death of his brother Malcolm III, in a joint rule with his nephew Edmund I. No record exists that indicates that Donald was ever crowned. Malcolm's son Duncan II deposed Donald III in May 1094 with the help of English troops, who then withdrew. Donald III and Edmund then rose against Duncan, killed him, and retook the throne the following November, with Donald ruling the north of the kingdom and Edmund ruling the south. Donald III and Edmund were deposed by King Edgar in 1097, again with the help of English troops.

    Donald died, imprisoned at Rescobie, Angus, in 1099. He is buried on Iona.

    At some point in his life Donald married, and had a daughter, Bethóc, through this marriage. Bethóc married and had children of her own. Bethóc's husband was Ughtred of Tynedale, an Anglo-Saxon noble and lord in Northumbria. They had a daughter Hextilda, who married Richard de Comyn, a noble of Norman descent. Their descendants, the Comyns became important in Scotland, for example obtaining the earldom of Buchan by marriage, and lordship of Badenoch. However, Bethóc's descendants did not make a bid for the Scottish throne until 1290, when her descendant John Comyn of Badenoch, heir of William Comyn, son of Hextilda, was one of claimants to the Scottish throne after the death of Margaret of Norway. See Competitors of Scotland.
    1
  • Event: Accedence BET NOV 1094 AND OCT 1097
  • Note: Upon the death of his nephew Duncan, Donald "Bane" returned as King until Duncan's half brother Edgar in turn drove him off the throne again. 13 12
  • Event: Note OCT 1097
  • Note: King William II Rufus sent Donald's nephew Edgar to Scotland as his vassal at the head of an army that William raised. Donald III was soundly defeated, hunted down and captured, then blinded and thrown into a dungeon. 11 12



    Father: Duncan I mac Crínáin "the Gracious" KING OF SCOTS b: ABT 1001 in of Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
    Mother: Sybil OF NORTHUMBRIA b: BET 1009 AND 1014

    Marriage 1 Spouse Unknown
      Children
      1. Has No Children Uchtred OF SCOTLAND b: ABT 1090
      2. Has Children Bethóc OF SCOTLAND b: 1092 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland

      Sources:
      1. Title: Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia, Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
        Abbrev: Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia
      2. Title: University of Hull Royal Database (England), Url: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
        Abbrev: University of Hull Royal DB
        Author: bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk, Compiler: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
        Publication: University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX, 1994, 1995, 1996
        Note:
        Usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc.
        Page: Donald III Bane of Scotland, King of Scotland
      3. Title: University of Hull Royal Database (England), Url: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
        Abbrev: University of Hull Royal DB
        Author: bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk, Compiler: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
        Publication: University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX, 1994, 1995, 1996
        Note:
        Usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc.
      4. Title: Royal Genealogies DB, Address: 149 Kimrose Lane, Broadview Heights, OH 44147-1258, ah189@cleveland.freenet.edu, Url: http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/royalgen.html#about
        Abbrev: Royal Genealogies DB
        Author: Denis R. Reid
        Repository:
          Name: 216/237-5364
      5. Title: Ahnentafel for Margery Arundell, Subject: Ancestry of the Margery Arundell who married John Nance, Recipient: J.H. Garner, Author E-mail: marlyn@earthworld.com
        Abbrev: Ahnen for Margery Arundel
        Author: Marlyn Lewis
        Publication: October 8, 1997
      6. Title: Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
        Abbrev: Lineage & Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
        Author: Gerald Paget
        Publication: Skilton, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1977
        Page: Vol I p 56
      7. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, 7th ed.
        Abbrev: Ancestral Roots
        Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
        Publication: Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, MD, 1992
        Note:
        Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6
        Repository:
          Name: J.H. Garner

        Page: line 121A p 108, s of Duncan, K of Scots, no mother
      8. Title: University of Hull Royal Database (England), Url: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
        Abbrev: University of Hull Royal DB
        Author: bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk, Compiler: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
        Publication: University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX, 1994, 1995, 1996
        Note:
        Usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc.
        Page: b ca 1033 no place
      9. Title: Kings & Queens of England & Scotland
        Abbrev: Kings & Queens of England & Scotland
        Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry
        Publication: Grove Press, New York, 1990
      10. Title: University of Hull Royal Database (England), Url: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
        Abbrev: University of Hull Royal DB
        Author: bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk, Compiler: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
        Publication: University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX, 1994, 1995, 1996
        Note:
        Usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc.
        Page: Acceded: 1093, Reigned 1093-May 1094,Nov 1094-Oct 1097 and imprisoned.
      11. Title: Scotland: The Sory of a Nation
        Abbrev: Scotland: The Sory of a Nation
        Author: Magnus Magnusson
        Publication: Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 2000
      12. Title: University of Hull Royal Database (England), Url: http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/
        Abbrev: University of Hull Royal DB
        Author: bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk, Compiler: Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science
        Publication: University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX, 1994, 1995, 1996
        Note:
        Usually reliable but sometimes includes hypothetical lines, mythological figures, etc.
        Page: Reigned 1093-May 1094,Nov 1094-Oct 1097 and imprisoned.
      13. Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America bef 1760, 7th ed.
        Abbrev: Ancestral Roots
        Author: Frederick Lewis Weis
        Publication: Genealogical Publishing, Baltimore, MD, 1992
        Note:
        Same ref source as earlier ed, "Ancestral Roots of 60 Colonists who Came to New England 1623-1650" ed 1-6
        Repository:
          Name: J.H. Garner

        Page: Reigned 1093-May 1094, Nov 1094-Oct 1097. line 121A p 108, K of Scots 1093-1094
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