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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 ...
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 ...
The Northumbrian Revolt of 1065 was a rebellion in the last months of the reign of Edward the Confessor against the earl of Northumbria, Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, Earl of Wessex. Tostig, who had been earl since 1055, is said to have provoked his nobles to rise against him by his harsh administration of justice, raising of ...
After the English from Wessex absorbed the Danish-ruled territories south of the Tees, Scots invasions reduced the rump Northumbria to an earldom stretching from the Tyne to the Tweed. The surviving Earldom of Northumbria, alongside the Haliwerfolk between the Tyne and Tees, were then disputed between the emerging kingdoms of England and ...
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.
Gospatric pays the king to succeed as Earl of Northumbria. December – William suppresses a revolt in Exeter and begins construction of Rougemont Castle there. [1] Edgar Ætheling flees to Scotland with his family. [1] Construction of Winchester Castle. 1068. Morcar leads a revolt in Northumbria, but William defeats the rebels at York. [2]
Descendant of Uhtred the Bold via his son Gospatric; either a son of Gospatric or a son of Gospatric's son Uhtred Eadulf or Eadwulf Rus ( fl. 1080) was an 11th-century Northumbrian noble. He was either the son or grandson of Gospatric (son of Uhtred the Bold ), possibly the man who soon after Christmas 1064 was allegedly killed on behalf of ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.