Agnes of Dunbar

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:25, Agnes of Dunbar, daughter of Edgar of Dunbar and Alice de Greystoke, married Anselm le Fleming of Stinton in Kendal & Digg, son of Michael le Fleming (also styled Furness) and Christian de Stainton. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁹¹⁰
Amongst the unpublished documents at Rydal Hall is a charter of circa 1180, by which Edgar (of Dunbar) and his wife Alice, daughter of Ivo de Greystoke, settled upon Agnes their daughter, in free marriage with Anselm, son of Michael de Furness, half their land of "Euenwit (Yanwath), Westmorland (Rydal MSS.). By an earlier charter of 1156-62, Walter, son of Ivo de Greystoke confirmed to Alice his sister on her marriage to Edgar son of Earl Gospatric, "Euenwit" and "Chonoc Salchild" (Knock Salcock), co. WEstmorland, as well as oher property in Cumberland, Durham and Yorkshire [Newminster Chartulary, Surtees Soc. p. 117]. Alice was the sister of Walter and daughter of Ivo, lords of Greystoke in Cumberland; while her husband, Edgar, was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Dunbar in Scotland, the great-great-nephew of the "gracious" King Duncan of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 74

Agnes married Anselm le Fleming, son of Sir Michael le Fleming Knight and Christian de Stainton ¹⁶⁰.^,910 (Anselm le Fleming was born in Stainton, Doncaster, West Riding Yorkshire, England and died in 1210/17 in Cumberland, England ¹⁶⁰.)