On this day in 1058 Malcolm III was crowned King of Scotland at Scone in Perthshire.
Malcolm III was King of Scotland from 1058 to 1093. He was later nicknamed "Canmore" ("ceann mòr", Gaelic, literally "big head" ).Malcolm's long reign of 35 years preceded the beginning of the Scoto-Norman age
Malcolm's kingdom did not extend over the full territory of modern Scotland: many of the islands and the land north of the river Oykel were Scandinavian, and south of the Firth of Forth there were numerous independent or semi-independent realms, including the kingdom of Strathclyde and Bamburgh, and it is not certain what if any power the Scots exerted there on Malcolm's accession.Over the course of his reign Malcolm III led at least five invasions into English territory. One of Malcolm's primary achievements was to secure the position of the lineage that ruled Scotland until the late thirteenth century, although his role as founder of a dynasty has more to do with the propaganda of his descendants than with history
