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  1. Queen of Scotland, the granddaughter of King
  2. Edmund Ironside of England. She went to
  3. Scotland after the Norman Conquest, and soon
  4. after married Malcolm III. The marriage of
  5. her daughter Matilda to Henry I united the
  6. Norman and English royal houses. Through her
  7. influence, the Lowlands, until then purely
  8. Celtic, became largely anglicized. She was
  9. canonized 1251 in recognition of her
  10. benefactions to the church.
  11.