Máel Coluim mac Donnchada called in most Anglicised regnal lists Malcolm III, and in later centuries nicknamed Canmore - "Big Head", or "Long-neck", was King of Scots. Malcolm's father Duncan I (Donnchad mac Crínáin) became king in late 1034, on the death of Malcolm II. Duncan's reign was not successful and he was killed by Macbeth (Mac Bethad mac Findlaích) in 1040. Although Shakespeare's Macbeth presents Malcolm as a grown man and his father as an old one, it appears that Duncan was still young in 1040. In 1057 various chroniclers report the death of Macbeth at Malcolm's hand. Macbeth was succeeded by his stepson Lulach, who was crowned at Scone. Lulach was killed by Malcolm, "by treachery", near Huntly in 1058. After this, Malcolm became king.
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