I looked up Lady Macbeth--the real life one--because I'm writing about the play version for FemGen and that means blending play and history like mad.
Lady Macbeth DID have a child--by her first marriage to Gille Coemgáin. Her husband, who was the King of Moray, and fifty of his men were burned alive in his great hall, almost certainly on the orders of the king of Alba. Indeed, it's possible that the assassin was Macbeth himself. The boy was named Lulach, and was referred to when he grew up as "Lulach the Unfortunate" and "Lulach the Simple-Minded." When Macbeth married the future Lady Macbeth, he adopted Lulach as his own child. And simple or not, Lulach did marry and produced a son (Máel Snechtai) and an unnamed daughter who became the mother of the last King of Moray (Óengus of Moray). So far as I can tell, RL Macbeth never had any biological kids.
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Date: 2010-04-27 03:16 am (UTC)Lady Macbeth DID have a child--by her first marriage to Gille Coemgáin. Her husband, who was the King of Moray, and fifty of his men were burned alive in his great hall, almost certainly on the orders of the king of Alba. Indeed, it's possible that the assassin was Macbeth himself. The boy was named Lulach, and was referred to when he grew up as "Lulach the Unfortunate" and "Lulach the Simple-Minded." When Macbeth married the future Lady Macbeth, he adopted Lulach as his own child. And simple or not, Lulach did marry and produced a son (Máel Snechtai) and an unnamed daughter who became the mother of the last King of Moray (Óengus of Moray). So far as I can tell, RL Macbeth never had any biological kids.