Margaret of Denmark (23 June 1456 – 14 July 1486) was Queen of Scots from 1469 to 1486 by marriage to King James III. She was the daughter of Christian I, King of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Dorothea of Brandenburg.

In July 1469 (at age 13), at Holyrood Abbey, she married James III, King of Scots (1460-88). Her father, King Christian I of Denmark and also of Norway, agreed on a remarkable dowry to her. He however was strained in cash, so the islands of Orkney and Shetland, Norwegian crown possessions, were pledged as security until the dowry was to be paid. The islands still belongs to Scotland

William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness was at that time the Norse Earl of Orkney, who was made in 1473 to exchange his Orkney fief to castle Ravenscraig, so the Scottish throne took the earl's rights in the islands too.

This marriage produced three sons:

• James IV (17 March 1473 - 9 September 1513)
• James Stewart, Duke of Ross (March 1476 - January 1504), and
• John Stewart, Earl of Mar (December 1479 - 1503).

She died at Stirling Castle and is buried in Cambuskenneth Abbey.

Links:

• The Peerage
• Geneall
• Wikipedia: English Dansk Deutsch