Prior Thurgot returned to his desk at the scriptorium intending to set down the facts surrounding Queen Margaret’s death. Even as he took his seat, he realised that in his mind he could not separate this event from the death of her husband, Malcolm. Yet, he did not wish to write about that unworthy man in his Life of Queen Margaret. Instead, he ignored his quill and sat thinking about the savage king that the great woman had to a great extent civilised. He ran through his knowledge of the reign until he arrived at the year leading up to the queen’s demise.
thatLife of Queen Margaret.The prior recalled that in 1092, the shaky peace between England and the Scots began to break down. The Scots controlled much of Cumbria, but William Rufus"s new castle at Carlisle and his settlement of Englis
