Alice de Greystoke
- Marriage: Edgar "Unniting" Dunbar 160,910
General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:24, wife of Edgar of Dungar, daughter of Ivo Fitz Forne, Lord of Greystoke. 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• Background Information. 910 Amongst the unpublished documents at Rydal Hall is a charter of circa 1180, by which Edgar (of Dunbar) and his wife Alice, daughter of Ivo de Greystoke, settled upon Agnes their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
Alice married Edgar "Unniting" Dunbar, son of Gospatric Earl of Dunbar & Baron of Beanley and Sybil Morel 160.,910 (Edgar "Unniting" Dunbar was born about 1107 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland and died after 1140 in Drigg, Bootle, Cumberland, Enland 160.)
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