Margaret Drummond, Queen of Scotland

Margaret Drummond (c. 1340 – after 31 January 1375), known also by her first married name as Margaret Logie, was the second queen of David II of Scotland and a daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, Knt. (died c. 1346) by his wife Margaret Graham, Countess of Menteith.

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 14 August 1362.

Margaret then married David II of Scotland at Inchmurdach in Fife, on 20 February 1364. Her niece Annabella was subsequently married to John Stewart, later king as Robert III and Margaret's grand-nephew by marriage.^[3] They had no children and the King divorced her on 20 March 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. Having borne a child from her first marriage, it seems likely that David himself was infertile, since his thirty-four year marriage to his first wife also bore no issue.^[4]

Margaret survived the King, and was alive on 31 January 1375, but seems to have died soon after that date.^[5] Her funeral was paid for by Pope Gregory XI.^[6]

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. ↑ Barrell, A. D. M. (2000). Medieval Scotland. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. 
4. ↑ Ashley, Mike (1999). The mammoth book of British kings and queens. London: Robinson Publishers. p. 551. ISBN 1-84119-096-9. 
5. ↑ Dunbar, Sir Archibald H., Scottish Kings - A Revised Chronology of Scottish History 1005 - 1625, Edinburgh, 1899, p.156
6. ↑ Barrell, A. D. M. (2000). Medieval Scotland. Cambridge University Press. p. 132. 

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