 Abt 1074 - 1093 (~ 19 years)
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| Name |
Ethelred Canmore |
| Born |
Abt 1074 |
Scotland  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
13 Nov 1093 |
Scotland |
| Person ID |
I231 |
King of Scots |
| Last Modified |
26 Jun 2013 |
| Father |
Malcolm III Canmore (King of Scotland), , b. 1031, Scotland , d. 13 Nov 1093, Alnwick, Northumberland, England (Age 62 years) |
| Mother |
Margaret of Atheling (Queen of Scotland), b. 1045, Southern Transdanubia, Hungary , d. 16 Nov 1093, Edinburgh Castle Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland (Age 48 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1069 |
Dunfermline Abbey (Holy Trinity Church) Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland |
| Family ID |
F104 |
Group Sheet |
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| Notes |
- GLENN ABERNETHY: See contact info on Ethelrod Canmore
The legendary beginning of the Abernathy or Abernethy name is from the 5th century AD in Scotland. The name is first mentioned, as a church, in the famous Pictish Chronicles, which lists the founder of the church at Abernethy as King Nectan (Nathan) about the year 470 AD. He may have been the Nectan who was converted to Christianity at Restinoth, the monastery in the parish of Forfar, by Boniface, an Israelite and a descendant of the Jonah, father of the apostles Peter and Andrew. According to the Chronicles, Nectan had been banished to Ireland by his brother, but St. Brigid of Ireland had prophesied that he would return to possess the kingdom in peace. When he did return as prophesied, he built the church at Abernethy to honor St. Brigid, who is said to have died there in 518 AD. Later, a second larger church was built there by King Gartnaith. In the 8th Century AD, the holy man, St. Donald lived with his nine virgin daughters at Ogilvy in Forfarshire. After he died, his daughters moved to Abernethy and established a monastery near Banff in Scotland, though legend says that they first lived in a hollowed out tree. The monastery at Abernethy, with its famous, still existing tower, built about 850 AD, is one of the three most famous towers in Britain. This tower was used as place of refuge by King Malcolm III and his family. The location of this church, near Perth, is at the confluence of the mouths of the Earn and Tay Rivers. The Nethy river flows into the Tay very close to Abernethy Church, which in Gaelic means- by the ford (Aber) of the River Nethy. Another possible meaning of the name is Ab Earn Ne Tay, meaning by the ford of the rivers Earn and Tay.
A charter concerning the parish of Abernethy was written near the end of the 11th century AD by Ethelred, son of King Malcolm Canmore (Malcolm III of Scotland). Ethelred was the last Lay Abbot and first secular peer of Abernethy. Ethelred, whose name in Gaelic is Aehd, may have married the granddaughter of Luloch, a King of Scotland who was slain by Malcolm III, and Aehd's sons appear to have continued as secular heads of the Abernethy parish. The charter, written by Ethelred, was the first use of the name Abernethy by anyone. Scottish history relates that Malcolm Ceann Mor (Canmore or Big Head), son of the slain Duncan I, was the man who defeated and slew MacBeth about 1057 AD (See Shakespeare) and that he married St. Margaret about 1070. After facing a battle with William Rufus (William II of England), Malcolm III decided to pledge an oath of allegiance at Abernethy to William I (The Conqueror) in 1072. However, he did not keep his word and continued to launch attacks across the Northern English border. Malcolm was ambushed and slain at Alnwick in England in November, 1093, and his wife Margaret died a few days later, but several of their children became Kings of Scotland, and a Queen of England. St. Margaret was canonized as a Saint of the Roman Catholic Church on June 19, 1250.
The Abernethy family seat was located at Caprow, where remains of a Roman Villa and baths have been unearthed. By the year 1100 AD, the church at Abernethy had expanded to become a large parish, which was first administered by Lay Abbots. For several hundred years the secular power of the parish was inherited by the eldest son of the nobility. The Abernethy family was one of only three families which had the religious privilege of giving Sanctuary (a form of religious protection from punishment by Civil law authorities.)
The first famous Secular peer of the Culdee monastery at Abernethy was Hugh De Abernethy, possibly the grandson of Ethelred (Aedh).
- Dates of Birth and Death:
http://www.gencircles.com/users/uncledarryl/1/data/8006
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