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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 ...
He was sent to the north as earl from 1068 to 1069 after the deposition of Gospatric. He reached Durham with 700 men, where the bishop, Æthelwine, warned him that an army was mobilised against him. He ignored the warning and, on 28 January 1069, the rebels converged on Durham and killed many of his men in the streets, eventually setting fire ...
Gospatric or Cospatric is a Brittonic name meaning "Devotee of Saint Patrick" and may refer to: People. Cospatric or Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria (died after 1073 ...
Both Waltheof and his brother Gospatric witness Earl David's Glasgow Inquest 1113 x 1124, and Waltheof also attests some of David's charters as king of the Scots later. [1] The account of Waltheof and his family in Cumbrian monastic cartularies ( St Bees and Wetheral ), says that he gave land in Allerdale to his three sisters, Octreda, Gunhilda ...
After the Norman Conquest, Eadulf's son Osulf briefly held the earldom of northern Northumbria in 1067 until he too was killed, succeeded by Uhtred's grandson by his third marriage (and Osulf's uncle), Gospatric, who was Earl of Northumbria from 1068 to 1072 before being forced to flee to Scotland. His replacement was Ealdred's maternal ...
Ethelreda, Etheldreda or Ethreda was a daughter of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria remembered in 13th century Cumberland as the mother of William fitz Duncan. She married Duncan II , King of Scots. Ethelreda was Queen of Scots for about six months in 1094, until Duncan's death on 12 November 1094.
A third noble, Gospatric son of Uhtred, was likewise murdered at Christmas 1064, either at Tostig's instigation or at that of his sister Edith. The dissident faction in Northumbria now knew that their grievances could not be ended by compromise, but only by more extreme measures. [24]
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.