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DUNBAR EARLDOM

[CANM361] Crinan of Atholl m. [ALPI292] Lady Bethoc of Atholl
. [DUNB341] Lord Maldred of Allerdale m. [BERN342] Ealdgyth of Northumbria
. . [DUNB351] Earl Gospatric of Northumbria m. [GODW352] Aethelreda of England
. . . [DUNB361] Waldeve m2. Sigrid
. . . . [DUNB372] Gunnild of Allerdale m. [GALL371] Lord Uhtred of Galloway

30.  [DUNB341] Maldred (2nd son of [CANM361] Crinan, see KINGS OF SCOTLAND) married (before 1040) [BERN342] Ealdgyth (daughter & heiress of [BERN331] Earl Uhtred, see BERNICIA). Maldred was Lord of Allerdale. He was also Regent of Strathclyde (1039-45) for Malcolm, the under-age son of his brother King Duncan. Maldred together with his father Crinan were both killed in battle in a rebellion against King MacBeth at Dunkeld (1045).

29.  [DUNB351] Gospatric gwas patric [servant of Patric] (born c.1040-48) married [GODW352] Aethelreda (sister to Edmund, and illegitimate daughter off King Harold II of England, see EARL GODWINE). He became Earl of Northumbria (c.1068). He rebelled against King William and joined the invading Norwegians who sailed up the river Humber (September 1069) and captured York by storm. Afterwards Gospatric fled but was pardoned. He lost the Earldom (1072) for having assisted in the massacre at Durham, after which he fled to Dunbar. [CANM381] King Malcolm III granted him 1st Earl of Dunbar (1072), with lands adjacent in Lothian. He died (c.1075) at Ubbanford [present-day Norham, on the south bank of the River Tweed, to the west of Berwick-upon-Tweed].

 

 

Norham Castle
(21 September 2008)

Also see NORTHUMBRIA (GOSPATRIC) EARLDOM.

28.  [DUNB361] Waldeve/Waldeof/Waltheof/Waltheor (2nd son of Gospatric) held of William de Meschiens (Lord of Egremont), the Barony of Allerdale below the River Derwent in Cumberland, and all the lands between the Rivers Coker and Derwent, together with the 5 towns of Brigham, Clifton, Eaglesfield, Deam and Greysouthern; and thus became 1st feudal Lord of Allerdale. He married Sigrid. After Waldeve died, Sigrid married 2. Roger FitzGilbert [not identified].