[598]. The Saxon Chronicle states that in the same year ‘the king came to Winchester, and Easter was then on the x. Kal. of April,’ that is, March 23d, but Easter fell on that day in the year 1068.
[599]. Flor. Wig. Chron. ad an. 1068.
[600]. Fordun’s Chronicle, ed. 1872, vol. ii. p. 202. For the marriage having taken place here we have the distinct authority of Turgot, in his life of Saint Margaret, who says that King Malcolm and his queen founded a church to the Holy Trinity in the place where they were married.
[601]. Sim. Dun. de Gest. Reg. ad an. 1093.
[602]. Sim. Dun. de Gestis Reg. ad an. 1072.
[603]. Flor. Wig. Chron. ad an. 1069.
[604]. Sim. Dun. de Gestis Reg. ad an. 1070.
[605]. Orderic. Vit. B. iv. c. v.
[606]. Sim. Dun. de Gest. Reg. ad an. 1070. Simeon of Durham died in 1130.
[607]. See Fordun, Chronicle, book v. chap. xiv., ed. 1874, vol. ii. p. 201. The story as here told is too long for insertion, but it is obviously the same, the scene of it being removed to Scotland. In consequence of the marriage being placed under this year by Simeon, it appears in the Chronicle of Melrose and in Fordun under this year, and in the former also under the year 1067 on the authority of the Saxon Chronicle.