What finally happened to Lady Macbeth?

Answer 1

According to the Shakespearean play 'Macbeth', Lady Macbeth ended up killing herself. Readers and viewers weren't given the specifics of the suicide. The means and even the exact timing were left unspecified. According to the historical record, Lady Macbeth's life was lived with only sketchy details for succeeding generations. There was no reference anywhere as to how, when, or where she might have died. But it was common in the eleventh century for the wife to be dispersed along with the properties of the deceased or disgraced titleholder. That decision would have been made by the King. The immediate successor to Macbeth [d. August 15, 1057] was his stepson, Lulach mac Gille Coemgain [d. March 17, 1058]. King Lulach was the only surviving child that Gruoch ingen Boite ka Lady Macbeth had. He was from her first marriage to Gille Coemgain [d. 1032], who may have been burned to death along with 50 other men by Macbeth. The killing may have been provoked by the suspicion that Coemgain had played some role in the killing of Macbeth's father, Findlaech mac Ruaidri [d. 1020]. King Lulach may or may not have seen to his mother's care. He was nicknamed the Unfortunate, the Simple-minded, and the Fatuous. According to those descriptions, he might have done exactly what his mother wanted or he might have been manipulated by others who put him on the throne. Just as the subsequent King Malcolm III [d. November 13, 1093] mortally wounded Macbeth at the battle of Lumphanan, so did he kill Lulach. Malcolm and then his brother Donalbain, the subsequent King Donald III [d. 1099], took control of the throne. If Lady Macbeth still lived, her existence might have ended or taken a decided downturn. On the other hand, Lulach's son and her grandson Mael Snechtai [d. 1085] and then her great grandson Oengus [d. 1130] took over Macbeth's title as King of Moray.