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George Home, 1st Earl of Dunbar (c.1556–1611) – died without male issue; Subsequent claimants to the title [7] [8] John Home, de jure 2nd Earl of Dunbar (a 1628), brother of 1st Earl, according to the Lord Advocate [9] in 1634, he “conceiving his fortune too mean, forebore to assume the dignity”. He died without male issue.
In 1266 when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the Treaty of Perth, signed in Norway in 1266. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway ...
Patrick II (1185–1249), called "6th Earl of Dunbar", [1] [2] was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish noble, and one of the leading figures during the reign of King Alexander II of Scotland. Said to be aged forty-six at the time of his father's death, this Patrick was the eldest son of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar and Ada, daughter of King William I of ...
The Earl of Dunbar and March, with the Earl of Angus, Robert Bruce the elder, and his son the Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to the English King at Wark on 25 March 1296. In this turbulent year he appears to have been betrayed by his wife, who took the Scottish side and retained the castle of Dunbar for Balliol, but was obliged to surrender it to King Edward I of England in April 1296. [9]
In 1434 Dunbar and his son Patrick were twice in England and the usual jealousies of the Crown and opponents in Scotland were aroused and the earl was arrested upon his return and confined in Edinburgh Castle, while the Earl of Angus, Chancellor Crichton, and Sir Adam Hepburn of Hailes, were dispatched with Letters to the Keeper of Dunbar Castle who immediately surrendered it to the King's ...
George, 11th Earl of Dunbar succeeded to his father's vast estates in 1420. [2] He was prominent in public affairs but his wealth became his undoing. [2] James I of Scotland coveted the Dunbar estates and imprisoned the earl on charges of treason with the estates being forfeited to the Crown. [2] He was the last Earl of Dunbar. [2]
Patrick Dunbar is not as well remembered as his second wife Agnes Randolph, also known as Black Agnes of Dunbar who died just a few months before him.From her brothers she obtained by inheritance the Isle of Man, the Lordship of Annandale (which she brought to her marriage), and the feudal baronies of Morton and Tibbers in Nithsdale, Mordington (where she is buried), Longformacus, and Duns, in ...
Patrick I (c.1152 [1] – 1232), Earl of Dunbar and lord of Beanley, was a 13th-century Anglo-Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar and Alina, and succeeded to his father's titles upon the latter's death in 1182.