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SCOTTISH ANNALS 363
land, to wit the widow of king Alexander and daughter of
Engelram de Coucy, departed from Scotland to return to
her own land, for the sake of visiting her country and her
after assignation to her of the part which pertained
relatives ;
to her of the kingdom of marks in revenue.
Scotland, to wit seven thousand
1
And when, taking her way through the midst, she came
to the lord king to salute him, he enriched her with many
honours and gifts, even as it is the king's custom to afford
to all foreigners gifts and honour ; and requested her to
return without interval of delay when she should be called
to the wedding of her son Alexander the second, 2 whom the
nobles of Scotland had raised to the throne.
1251, Dec.
MATTHEW PARIS, CHRONICA MAJORA, VOL. V, PP. 266-270. 3
The lord king was at York at Christmas.
In the year of the Lord 1252, which is the thirty-fifth
year of the kingdom of lord king Henry III, the lord king
was at York at Christmas for the union in marriage of his
4
daughter Margaret, now in her . . .
year, with Alexander,
1
Cf. however M.P., infra, " four thousand marks and more."
2 "
filii sui Alexandri secundi : perhaps her second son." Alexander III
was eight years old, according to Ann. of Burt., infra, note : nevertheless he
was born on the 4th September, 1241 ; Sc. Peer., i, 6. His parents were
married in May, 1239.
3 Cf. M.P., H.A., iii, 117-118; Abbr. Chr., ibid., iii, 321-322; Fl. His.,
ii, 378.
4 The year of her age is omitted; so also in H.A., iii, 118. Margaret
was born in Gascony in 1243, according to Ann. of Winch., in A.M., ii, 89.
In 1242, according to Ann. of Osn., and T.W., in A.M., iv, 90. In 1241,
Ann. of Dunst., in A.M., iii, 156. In 1240, M.P., Chr. Maj., iv, 48, and H.A.,
ii, 438, (after the 29th September on ; the 29th, according to Abbr. Chr.. in
M.P., H.A., iii, 281 ;) Ann. of Tewk., in A.M., i, 116 (where she is called
Matilda, and the day is given as the 1st October ;) Ann. of Wore., in A.M.,
iv, 432. In 1240, October 2nd, according to Fl. His., ii, 239-240.
Cf. Ann. of Burt., in
"
A.M., i, 296, s.a. 1251 : In this year the king of
Scotland, son of king Alexander, a small boy of eight years, married at York
on the day of Christmas Margaret, the daughter of king Henry of England,
a little girl of the same age ; king Henry being present there, and queen
Eleanour, his wife, and the queen of Scotland, mother of the king, and nearly
all the nobles and magnates of England and of Scotland. And she was
taken with them to Scotland."
Margaret was Henry Ill's eldest daughter. (Ann. of Tewkesb., in
A.M., i, 146.)
Ann. of Wore., in A.M., iv, 436, s.a. 1245 :
" The lord king sought aid
from the religious houses throughout England for the marrying of his firstborn
daughter, and we gave him a hundred shillings " (sols) " and a silver
cup of price."
Ann. of Tewkesb., u.s., i, 145 :
" The king exacted tallage from all