What is Malcolm III of Scotland?
{{Infobox Monarch | name = Malcolm III | title = King of Scots | image=Margaret and Malcolm Canmore (Wm Hole).JPG | reign= 1057 – 1093 | coronation = 10 April 1057 | predecessor = [[Macbeth of Scotland|Macbeth]] | successor = [[Donald III of Scotland|Donald III]] | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|[[Ingibiorg Finnsdottir]]|1066|1069|end=died}} * {{marriage|[[Saint Margaret of Scotland|Margaret of Wessex]]|1070|}} }} | issue = {{plainlist| * [[Duncan II of Scotland]] * Domnall *Malcolm *[[Edward, Prince of Scots]] * [[Edmund, King of Scotland]] * Ethelred, Abbot of Dunkeld * [[Edgar of Scotland]] * [[Alexander I of Scotland]] * [[Matilda of Scotland|Matilda, Queen of England]] * [[David I of Scotland]] * Mary, Countess of Boulogne }} | house = [[House of Dunkeld|Dunkeld]] | birth_date = 26 March 1031 | birth_place = [[Scotland]] | death_date = {{death date|1093|11|13|1031|3|26}} | death_place = [[Alnwick]], [[Northumberland]], England | burial_place = [[Tynemouth]] | father = [[Duncan I|Duncan I of Scotland]] | mother = [[Suthen]] }} '''Malcolm III''' of [[Scotland]] (also called '''Malcolm Canmore'''), [[Scottish monarchs|King of Scots]] was the first of a [[dynasty]] of [[king]]s who ruled [[Scotland]] for over two [[century|centuries]]. == Career == Malcolm was born in 1031, the son of king [[Duncan I of Scotland]] and his wife; a cousin of [[Siward, Earl of Northumberland]].<ref name=Paul1.2>''The Scots Peerage, Founded on Wood's Edition of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland'', ed. James Balfour Paul, Vol. I (Edinburgh: David Douglas, 1904), pp. 1-2</ref> When his father was killed in 1040 Malcolm did not [[Order of succession|succeed]] to the [[throne]]. At the time the system [[:wikt:alternate|alternated]] between different lines of the same royal family.{{efn|Scotland had an unusual system of [[:wikt:select|selecting]] the next king. Instead of a dynasty (members of the same family succeeding one another) they alternated between different royal families. Kings were selected from a group