#OnThisDay in #history - in 1040, the king of Alba (Scotland), Duncan I, died at the hands of the army of his cousin and rival, Macbeth. Duncan had inherited the throne from their grandfather, Malcolm II, as a young man. After Duncan's death, Macbeth ruled for 10 years, until his own death. Their story was dramatized in Shakespeare's Macbeth, written in 1606 as a means of soliciting recognition from the new king of England, James I, who hailed from Scotland. #OTD#histodons@histodons
