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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 ...
Northumbria was a turbulent, feud-ridden, and lawless province far distant from his own native Wessex, and its nobles may have resented having a southerner placed over them, [9] though it is also possible that having no connection with any of the three main Northumbrian factions (based around the house of Bamburgh, the see of Durham, and the ...
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: c. 1068 c. 1068 Unclear if he was just ruler of Bamburgh or what if any jurisdiction he exercised south of the Tyne. Gospatric and his descendants were the forerunners of the earls of Dunbar. [1] Robert de Comines: 1068 1069 Killed by rebels at Durham Waltheof of Northampton: c.1070 1075 Walcher: 1075 1080 Also bishop of Durham ...
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 ...
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Northumbria 615—683 Founder of Ebchester and St Abb's Head, abbess and Bernician princess. 25 August [14] Eata of Hexham: Northumbria died 686 Bishop of Lindisfarne, earlier abbot, first non-Irishman to hold the bishopric. 26 October [15] Cedd: Northumbria 620—664 Bishop of London, brother of Chad, credited with reconversion of Essex. 26 ...