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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.
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.
Gospatric fled into exile in Scotland and not long afterwards went to Flanders. When he returned to Scotland he was granted the castle at "Dunbar and lands adjacent to it" and in the Merse by King Malcolm III, his cousin. [10] This earldom without a name in the Scots-controlled northern part of Bernicia would later become the Earldom of Dunbar.
He married a Scottish woman called Deirdre, and by her fathered three sons, Waltheof, Earl of Lothian, Uchtred deDundas and Sir Patrick de Greenlaw (patrilineal ancestor of the Earls of Home). [2] Gospatric was a great religious patron, granting lands to many of his neighbouring abbeys.
In 1128 Gospatric's son, Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, witnessed the foundation of Holyrood Abbey. [2] He also accorded the rank of earl and made donations to Kelso Abbey. [2] In around 1184 Patrick of Dunbar married Ada, daughter of William the Lion and was created justiciar of Lothian. [2]
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.