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Gruoch ingen Boite (fl.1020-1054) was the daughter of Boite (Bodhe) mac Cináeda son of Cináed III.[1] She is most famous for being the wife and queen of Mac Bethad mac Findlaích (Macbeth). The dates of her life are not certainly known. Before 1032 Gruoch was married to Gille Coemgáin mac Maíl Brigti, Mormaer of Moray, with whom she had at least one son, Lulach mac Gille Coemgáin, later King of Scots. Gille Coemgáin was killed in 1032, burned in a hall with fifty of his men.[2] The next year one of her male relatives, probably her only brother, was murdered by Malcolm II.[3] Gruoch is named with Boite and also with Mac Bethad in charters endowing the culdee monastery at Loch Leven. The date of her death is not known. In fiction She served as the model for the character Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare's play Macbeth. She is also a central character in David Greig's 2010 play Dunsinane, in which she is known as Gruach and outlives Macbeth. Gloria Carreño's 2009 play A Season Before The Tragedy Of Macbeth premiered by British Touring Shakespeare 2010, also sheds a new light on the central character, Gruach Macduff. The play considers events up to the opening of the letter from the three witches in Shakespeare's tragedy. Susan Fraser King wrote Lady Macbeth, a historical novel about Gruach. King asserts that the book is as deeply rooted in fact as possible. Notes Jump up ^ It is not entirely certain that the Cináed father of Boite was Cináed mac Duib rather than Kenneth II. Both possibilities are admitted by Duncan, p. 345, table A, although most sources, e.g. Woolf, favour Cináed mac Duib. Jump up ^ Annals of Ulster, s.a. 1032. Jump up ^ Marshall, Rosalind K. (2003). Scottish Queens, 1034-1714. Tuckwell Press. p. 4. References Annals of Ulster (translation ) at University College Cork's CELT project. Duncan, A. A. M., The Kingship of the Scots 842-1292: Succession and Independence. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2002. ISBN 0-7486-1626-8 Woolf, Alex, "Macbeth" in Michael Lynch (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Scottish History. Oxford UP, Oxford, 2001. ISBN 0-19-211696-7 Playwright Gloria Carreño Une Saison Avant La Tragédie de Macbeth, by Gloria Carreño. Les Editions Persée, 2010. ISBN 978-2-35216-684-9. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Another version: Gruoch (1007 - 1060) was the daughter of Bodhe, prince of Scotland. Gruoch was first married to Gillacomagnan, earl of Moray, of whom she had future king Lulach of Scotland. In 1032, her father arranged her marriage to Lord Macbeth, who would become king of Scotland in 1040. From then on, she is known as Lady Macbeth. She appears in Shakespeare's play Macbeth, but the play, and the character of Lady Macbeth, are only very loosely based upon actual events. Lady Macbeth has become an archetypical character, providing the standard template for a wife pushing her husband to do harm through her own ambition. http://en.wikipedia.org
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