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Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of [Saint] Patrick"), [citation needed] (died after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria, or of Bernicia, and later lord of sizable estates around Dunbar. His male-line descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar , later known as the Earldom of March , in south-east Scotland until 1435, and the Lordship ...
Cospatric or Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria (died after 1073), Earl of Northumbria; Gospatricsson, the family name of the Earls of Dunbar. Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian (died 1138), Earl of Lothian or Dunbar; Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian (died 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar; Gospatric (sheriff of Roxburgh), sheriff in Teviotdale in early ...
Gospatric II (died 1138) [1] was Earl of Lothian or Earl of Dunbar in the early 12th century.. He was the son of Gospatric I, sometime Earl of Northumbria (d. after 1073). In the earliest sources, occurring at dates between 1120 and 1134 he is not styled "earl", but the "brother of Dolfin", the latter style being used in his own seal.
Waltheof of Allerdale was an 11th- and 12th-century Anglo-Saxon noble, lord of Allerdale in modern Cumbria.Brother of Dolfin of Carlisle and Gospatric of Dunbar, Waltheof was son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. [1]
The name of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria as it appears on folio 153r of British Library Cotton MS Tiberius B I (the "C" version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): "Uhtrede eorle". Uhtred of Bamburgh ( Uhtred the Bold —sometimes Uchtred ; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria .
The first man to use the title of Earl in this capacity was Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. It descended to George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March, whose titles & estates were declared forfeit by the Scottish parliament in 1435, and retired into obscurity in England.
Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The ealdordom was a successor of the Norse Kingdom of York .
This timeline summarises significant events in the history of Northumbria and Northumberland. 500 559 – Ida of Bernicia is the first known King of Bernicia ; he reigned from 547 to 559. 588 – The first king of Deira was Ælla of Deira who ruled from 560 until his death in 588. 600 604 – Aethelfrith unites Bernicia and Deira to form Northumbria. 613 – Æthelfrith engaged in the Battle ...