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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 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 sons Dolfin, Waltheof and Gospatric are named in De obsessione Dunelmi and by Symeon of Durham, [9] while a document from about 1275 apparently prepared to instruct advocates in a land dispute reports that of these three sons, only Waltheof was born to a legitimate marriage and that he was full sibling of Gospatric's daughter Ethelreda. [12]
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 ...
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 .
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 ...
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.
Waltheof (died 1182), earl of Lothian or Dunbar and lord of Beanley, was a 12th-century Anglo-Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian by his Scottish wife, Deirdre. [1] Waltheof's grandfather, Gospatric II, died at the Battle of the Standard in 1138, and Waltheof's