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