Marianus Scotus tells how Macbeth, as King…

Marianus Scotus tells how Macbeth, as King of Scots, made a pilgrimage to Rome in 1050, where, Marianus says, he gave money to the poor as if it were seed.

Macbeth in 1052 is involved indirectly in the strife in the Kingdom of England between Godwin, Earl of Wessex and Edward the Confessor when he receives a number of Norman exiles from England in his court, in so doing perhaps becoming the first king of Scots to introduce feudalism to Scotland.