MessageToEagle.com – On 15 August 1057, the Battle of Lumphanan was fought between Macbeth, King of Scotland, and Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, the future King Malcolm III, the son of the dethroned and murdered King Duncan I.
On this day, Malcolm Canmore defeated and killed Macbeth.
Macbeth, then known as the King of Alba, was killed, having drawn his retreating forces north to make a last stand against the combined Scottish-Scandinavian army of Prince Malcolm Canmore.
According to tradition, the battle took place near the Peel of Lumphanan, in what is today Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Macbeth’s Stone, some 300 meters (980 ft) south-west of the peel, is said to be the stone upon which Macbeth was beheaded.
Little is known about the real King Macbeth who is most certainly one of the more infamous and yet unaccomplished monarchs in Scottish history.
In the famous Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth, the king was made immortal.
Macbeth is buried in Iona, in the company of venerated Scottish kings, in a location reserved for true kings, because he was one of them.
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