Qualla: Battle of Lumphanan https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Lumphanan https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan Battle of Lumphanan: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan/ Forget the play for a moment. On 15 August 1057, on rising ground near the Aberdeenshire settlement of Lumphanan, the King of Scots fought his last battle. His name was Macbeth, Mac Bethad mac Findlaich in his own language, and he had ruled Scotland for seventeen years, longer than most medieval monarchs managed, presiding over a kingdom secure enough that he had been able to make a pilgrimage to Rome in 1050 and reportedly scatter alms to the poor along the way. The man Shakespeare invented five and a half centuries later, the tortured tyrant haunted by witches, has very little to do with the king who died in a wood near Lumphanan. The real Macbeth was a competent ruler whose only crime, by the standards of his own time, was having defeated and killed his predecessor in battle, which was how most Scottish kingships changed hands.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/h/battle-of-lumphanan-wp/gfnh-battle-of-lumphanan-how-a-king-came-to-a-wood.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lumphanan: Three Years and Then a Wood https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan/ What happened between Dunsinane in 1054 and Lumphanan in 1057 the chronicles do not really record. Macbeth still controlled at least the northern half of his kingdom. Malcolm, presumably, was building up his forces and his support among the southern Scottish nobility. On 15 Augus...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/h/battle-of-lumphanan-wp/gfnh-battle-of-lumphanan-three-years-and-then-a-wood.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lumphanan: Macbeth's Stone https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan/ A large boulder still sits on the ground at Lumphanan, and tradition holds that this is the spot where the king fell. They call it Macbeth's Stone. It is the kind of monument every part of Britain has somewhere: a rock, a hollow, a corner of a field that the local memory has fixe...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/n/h/battle-of-lumphanan-wp/gfnh-battle-of-lumphanan-macbeths-stone.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Lumphanan: Lulach, the Briefly-King https://qualla.com/battle-of-lumphanan/ Macbeth's stepson Lulach, the son of his queen Gruoch by an earlier marriage, was crowned King of Scots almost immediately after Macbeth's death. He reigned eighteen weeks. On 17 March 1058 Malcolm killed him by treachery, the chronicles say, at Essie near Aberdeen, which probabl...

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