Margaret Drummond, Queen consort of Scotland

The second wife of David II, King of Scots, Margaret Drummond was born in Perthshire, Scotland in about 1330. She was the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, a minor Lennox and Perthshire lord, and his wife from the Graham family, possibly named Annabelle. In 1314, Sir Malcolm fought at the decisive Battle of Bannockburn, a landmark in Scottish history. Stirling Castle, a Scots royal fortress, occupied by the English, was under siege by the Scottish army. King Edward II of England, who was at the battle, assembled a formidable force to stop the siege. This attempt failed, and Edward II’s army was defeated by a smaller army commanded by Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots. Sir Malcolm is credited with the use of caltrops at the battle, a weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spikes arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base to injure horses and unseat their riders. The caltrops were spread on the ground prior to the Battle of Bannockburn and were very effective against the English horses. After the battle, the Clan Drummond was given lands in Perthshire by Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots. In memory of Malcolm’s feat, caltrops appear in many versions of the Drummond coat of arms and the Clan Drummond motto is “Gang Warily” (Go carefully).

Margaret had at least one sibling:

Sir John Drummond of Stobhall (born circa 1300 – died circa 1360), married Mary de Montfichet, daughter and co-heiress with her sisters of Sir William de Montfichet, of Stobhall, Cargill and Auchterarder, had issue including Annabelle Drummond who married John Stewart, Earl of Carrick (the future Robert III, King of Scots), son of Robert II, King of Scots

Sir Malcolm Drummond, a son of Margaret’s brother, obtained the clan home, Stobhall Castle, from Margaret after she became Queen of Scots.

Margaret first married Sir John Logie, and the couple had a son John of Logie, born about 1350. As very young children, David II, King of Scots, son of Robert I the Bruce, King of Scots from his second marriage, and Joan of the Tower, daughter of King Edward II of England, were married under the terms of the peace which ended the Wars of Scottish Independence which were fought between Scotland and England. The marriage was unhappy and childless, and David had mistresses. Around 1360, David and Margaret began an affair.

In 1362, Joan of the Tower died, leaving David free to marry Margaret, who had lived with him for some time. Around 1363, either Margaret’s first husband died or her first marriage was annulled and David and Margaret made plans to marry. However, the marriage plans provoked a rebellion by supporters of David’s nephew and heir presumptive Robert Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Robert was the only child of Marjorie Bruce, daughter of Robert the Bruce by his first wife Isabella of Mar. The rebels eventually submitted and on February 20, 1364, David and Margaret married at Inchmurdoch, the manor of the Bishop of St. Andrews near Crail, Scotland.

History has depicted Margaret as beautiful, but also arrogant and greedy. As Queen of Scots, Margaret received land in Perthshire and the customs revenue from Aberdeen and Inverkeithing. She also managed to procure royal lands in Annandale for her son John of Logie. Margaret pressed her husband into stripping his first cousin William, 5th Earl of Ross of his lands and title and briefly arresting his heir presumptive Robert Stewart, High Steward of Scotland.

By 1368, Margaret’s behavior and her failure to produce an heir had convinced David to annul their marriage. Instead, he planned to marry his current mistress Agnes Dunbar. David had the marriage annulled on March 20, 1369 on grounds of Margaret’s infertility. However, Margaret traveled to Avignon, in southern France, and made a successful appeal to the Pope Urban V to reverse the annulment which had been pronounced against her in Scotland. Since Margaret had a child in her first marriage, it seems likely that David himself was infertile, since his thirty-four-year marriage to his first wife was childless. David never did marry Agnes Dunbar. He died unexpectedly on February 22, 1371 at Edinburgh Castle and was buried at Holyrood Abbey in Edinburgh, now in ruins. His nephew, the son of his half-sister Marjorie, succeeded him as Robert II, King of Scots, the first monarch of the House of Stewart. Around 1373, Margaret died in Marseilles, France. Pope Gregory XI paid for her funeral and burial. Her burial place is unknown, but it is assumed it is in France.

Works Cited

• “Clan Drummond”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.
• “David II Of Scotland”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.
• Ewan, Elizabeth et al. The Biographical Dictionary Of Scottish Women. 1st ed. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. Print.
• “Margaret Drummond: Genealogics”. Genealogics.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.
• “Margaret Drummond, Queen Of Scotland”. En.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.
• “Marguerite Drummond”. Fr.wikipedia.org. N.p., 2017. Web. 7 Apr. 2017.

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Margaret Drummond

• F, #105307, b. circa 1340, d. after 31 January 1374/75
• Last Edited=22 May 2015
• Consanguinity Index=6.25%
• http://www.thepeerage.com/p10531.htm#i105307

Margaret Drummond was born circa 1340. She was the daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, 10th Thane of Lennox and unknown daughter Graham.1,2

She married, firstly, Sir John Logie of that Ilk.2

She married, secondly, David II Bruce, King of Scotland, son of Robert I Bruce, King of Scotland and Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, on 20 February 1363/64 at Inchmurdach Manor, Fife, ScotlandG.2 She and David II Bruce, King of Scotland were divorced circa 20 March 1370.2,1

She died after 31 January 1374/75 at Avignon, FranceG.3 Her married name became Logie.2

Child of Margaret Drummond and Sir John Logie of that Ilk

John of Logie2

Origins

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY%20UNTITLED.htm...

MALCOLM de Drummond, son of MALCOLM de Drummond & his wife --- (-after 1346).
m ---. The name of Malcolm’s wife is not known.

Malcolm & his wife had three children:

• 1. JOHN Drummond (-after 1360). m [MARY Montefichet, daughter of WILLIAM Montefichet of Auchterarder and Cargill & his wife ---]. John Drummond had three children: ...
• 2. MAURICE Drummond (-after 1368).
• 3. MARGARET Drummond (-[Avignon] soon after 31 Jan 1375). The Chronicle of John of Fordun (Continuator - Annals) records the second marriage of "lord David king of Scotland" and "Margaret of Logie" at "Inchmurdach" in 1363[424]. The Liber Pluscardensis records the marriage "apud Enchemarthow", dated to [1362/63] from the context, of King David and "Margaretam de Logi, filiam domini Malcolmi de Drummond" and their divorce without her consent "circa festum Carnis Brevii" in 1369[425]. m firstly JOHN Logie of that Ilk, son of ---. m secondly (Inchmurdach Manor, Fife or Inchmahone Priory, Perthshire Apr or Dec 1363, divorced 20 Mar 1370) as his second wife, DAVID II King of Scotland, son of ROBERT I King of Scotland & his second wife Elizabeth de Burgh (Dunfermline Palace, Fife 5 Mar 1324-Edinburgh Castle 22 Feb 1371, bur Holyrood Abbey, Edinburgh).

Citations

1. BP2003 volume 3, page 3102.
2. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 211.
3. Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, page 212.

“[David II.] married, secondly, about 20 February 1363-4, Margaret, daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, and widow of Sir John Logie of that Ilk. The king divorced her about 20 March 1369-70, but she obtained a reversal of this decision from the Pope at Avignon. She died after January 1374-5. David II. left no issue by either wife, and was succeeded by his nephew ROBERT, High Steward of Scotland, and son of his half-sister Marjory Bruce.”

• Source: Douglas, S. R. and Wood, J. P. (1904) The Scots Peerage: Founded on Wood’s Edition of Sir Robert Douglas’s Peerage of Scotland; Containing an Historical and Genealogical Account of the Nobility of that Kingdom. Edited by S. J. B. Paul. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK: David Douglas. Available at: Google Books.

“King David,” says the writer, “set about espousing Margaret Logie, daughter of Sir Malcolm Drummond, a noble and most beautiful lady at Inchmurthow; and he raised her to the throne with great magnificence as Queen. He did not, however, stay very long with her before again getting a divorce.” Margaret’s father, therefore, was Sir Malcolm Drummond, Lord of that Ilk, and tenth Thane of Lennox, who died about 1346, and who had three sons, John, Maurice, and Walter.

“The New Queen, strong in the influence which her seductive charms and winning arts had acquired over the facile mind of the King, was able to sway him at her will. Nothing was denied her. She was fond of extravagant display, which the Scottish Treasury was ill able to support. She grasped at wealth and power: and her kindred shared fully in her good fortune. The King, says Fordun, “endowed her with many lands and possessions:” and the second volume of The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, issued under the competent editorship of Mr. Burnett….show many grants which she obtained for herself and for the aggrandizement of her friends. Her dowry was ample. She received the customs and fermes of the burgh of Aberdeen from May 1364, and the rents of the Constabulary of Kinghorn; and the fermes of Banff, in 1367. Besides, various domains in Perthshire were conveyed to her, namely: the thanage of Kinclaven; the lands of Abirnyt, Ferdyll, Rate, Lethendy, Glasclone, Balcarne, and Cochreske; the abthania of Dull, of which her brother, Sir Robert Drummond, was Bailie; and the lands of Stobbal, Cargill, and Kinloch. Out of these possessions, she made grants to her friends. She gave the abthania of Dull to her son, Sir John Logie: and the lands of stobball, Cargill, and Kinloch to her nephew Malcolm, the eldest son of her brother, Sir John Drummond:… Through her influence, other grants came to Sir John Logie. In 1365, he obtained from Robert, Steward of Scotland, and Earl of Stratherene, with consent of Euphemia, his spouse, a charter of the following lands in the Earldon of Stratherne, namely, the manor-place of Foulys; the dominical lands of Foulys, with the pertinents; Gask, Cristkynkell, Buchnyn, Letirbonactyn, Lekog, Dromfyne, the tofts Dromy, Fauchalathyn, Pitlandyn, Fornoucht, Creef Easter, mills of Foulys and of Melach, with their pertients, in the shire of Perth. The Parliament of 1366 reinstated Sir John in the lands of Logie; and the King, on 29th July, 1368, granted him the free Barony and Regality of Logie. Sir John was also for some period in possession of the lands in Annandale: and about 1370, Isabella, Countess of Fife, granted a charter in his favour, for his counsel and assistance rendered to her, of her whole lands of Lanyne, in the shire of Edinburgh….”

• Source: Fittis, R. S. (1881) “The Drummond Queens of Scotland,” in Recreations of an Antiquary in Perthshire History and Genealogy. Perth, Scotland, UK: Constitutional Office, pp. 437–468. Available at: Google Books.