Gospatrick, Earl of Northumberland Earl of Dunbar

  General Notes:

Weis' Ancestral Roots. . ., 38:22, as father of Waltheof who was living in 1126, 40:22 - as father of Athelreda of Dunbar who married Duncan II, King of Scotland, 41:22 - As father of Gospatrick II, 121B:27 - as Earl of Northumberland 1067-72; 1st Earl of Dunbar 1072-5. Lord of Carlyle and Allerdale; visited Rome 1061; married a sister of Edmund.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Gospatric, son and heir of Maldred, presumably the son of Crinan, lay abbot oof Dunkeld, by Bethoc, daughter of malcolm II of Scotland, and Ælfgifu, daughter of Ethelred II. This gave Gospatric the ancestry of the ancient Earls of Northumberland and the royal houses of England and Scotland. He paid a heavy fine to William the Conqueror for the Earldom. He joined the Norwegians, Sep 1069, and took York as well as killing all the Normans there. The Conqueror then laid waste to the whole country between York and Durham. Gospatric, fled, but later obtained a pardon. He was still in possession of the Earldom of Northumberland in 1071, but was deprived of it in 1072. At this time he fled to Scotland, where his kinsman, Malcolm Canmore, gave him Dunbar and adjacent lands in Lothian. His descendants were the Earls of Dunbar.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vo. IX (Northumberland), pp. 704. 705