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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.
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 ...
Gospatric III or Cospatric III (died 1166) was a twelfth-century Anglo-Celtic noble, who was Earl of Lothian and later the Earl of Dunbar, and feudal Lord of Beanley. He was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian (later called Earl of Dunbar ).
The title Earl of Dunbar, also called Earl of Lothian or Earl of March, applied to the head of a comital lordship in south-eastern Scotland between the early 12th century and the early 15th century. The first man to use the title of Earl in this capacity was Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian , son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria .
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Dunbar Castle was one of the strongest fortresses in Scotland, situated in a prominent position overlooking the harbour of the town of Dunbar, in East Lothian. Several fortifications were built successively on the site, near the English-Scottish border. The last was slighted in 1567; it is a ruin today.