Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland

Margaret Drummond
Queen consort of Scotland
Tenure 1364–1369
Spouse Sir John Logie
David II of Scotland
Issue
John of Logie (by her first marriage)
House Clan Drummond
Father Sir Malcolm Drummond
Mother Margaret Graham
Born c. 1340
Died after 31st January 1375

Margaret Drummond (circa 1340 – after January 31, 1375) was the second queen of David II of Scotland and a daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, Knt. (died circa 1346) by his wife Margaret, née Graham.

Margaret first married Sir John Logie of that ilk, having by him a son John of Logie.[1][2] She later served as a mistress to King David who was widowed from his first wife Joan of The Tower on August 14, 1362.

Margaret then married David II of Scotland at Inchmurdach in Fife on February 20, 1364. They had no children and the King divorced her on March 20, 1369 on grounds of infertility. Margaret, however, travelled to Avignon, in southern France and made a successful appeal to the Pope to reverse the sentence of divorce which had been pronounced against her in Scotland. She survived the King, and was alive on January 31, 1375, but seems to have died soon after that date.[3]

References

  1. ^ Fraser, Douglas Book vol i, pp248-249
  2. ^ Bain, Cal.Doc.Scot. p.22 no 93. In which he is gifted a "parcel-gilt cup by the English King valued at £4 5s 1d
  3. ^ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Scottish Kings - A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899, p.156
Scottish royalty
Preceded by
Joan of The Tower
Queen consort of Scotland
1364–1369
Succeeded by
Euphemia de Ross