504 DUNBAR Earldoms (as distinct rrom the ancient Mormaerships) can properly be held to have been in existence. See some remarks in vol. i, p. 141 {sub " Angus"), on the Seven Earldoms of Scotland, among which was Dunbar as late as 1244, not, however, being included therein in 1297, when, for the last time, they appear.] GosPATRiCjQ s. of Maldred,() by Ealdgyth, da. and h. of Ughtred, Prince of Northumberland (and Elgiva, da. of Ethelred, King of England), was b. between 1040 and 1048; is probably identi- cal with the "noble youth" of that name who visited Rome in 1061, in company with Tostig, the br. of Harold II; joined the Danes in an invasion of the north of England, but making peace with William I, was at Christmas 1067 entrusted with the government of Northumberland. Being, however, deprived of that post in Oct. or Nov. 1072, he fled to Scotland, receiving from Malcolm III " Dunbar vi'ith. the adjacent lands in Lothian." He m. ( — ), sister of Edmund. He d. probably about 1075, and most likely is the " Gospatricus Comes " whose monument was at Durham. He is stated in Hoveden to have d. and been bur. at Ubbanford [i.e. Norham], not long after his flight to Scotland. I. 11151 EARLDOM [S.] i. Gospatric de Dunbar, Earl [S.], 3rd(') s. of the above, being yr. br. of Dolfin (expelled 1092 from Carlisle), was apparently one of the nine signatories (^) to the charter of Scone {circ. 1 1 15), as also, about a year most extensive resources, this article in the first edition was corrected by Joseph Bain, F.S.A. [S.], who summed up (with some additions thereto) Capt. Dunbar's researches in vol. iv of Scotch Calendars, preface, pp. xxi, xxiii. The filiation of Earl George [1368-14 1 6], a most important feature in the family history, appears to have been entirely misconceived by most previous writers. Dunbar is one of the 12 families in Drummond's Nuble British Families, see vol. i, p. II 8, note " b." () " Gospatric " is Celtic (Skene's Celtic Scotland) for " the servant of Patrick" ; the word "Gwas" meaning "servant." Joseph Bain found the word as ^^ Qwaspa- tricius" in an inquisition. Cal. of Doc. [5.], vol. i. No. 1 7 12. (*>) Maldred was probably br. of Duncan, King of Scotland, 1034-40, who was s. of Crinan, Abbot of Dunkeld, which Crinan is conjectured (by Skene) to be the same as Crinan Tein, the father of this Maldred. Gospatric was thus cousin {pater- nally) to the Scottish and {maternally) to the English Kings. (•=) He had 2 elder brothers, Dolfin, as in the text, and Waltheof, who m. Sigrid, and was living about 1 126. He had 2 sons: (i) Alan, living 16 Aug. 1139, who d. s.p.m.s. (2) Gospatric, possibly illegit., who was living about 1 156. He had a son, Waltheof, who d. s.p.m. before 1 200. V.G. (^) He is the only one of the nine persons by whose consent the charter was granted whose name is appended thereto without the designation of Comes or of Episcopus, whence it might be fairly conjectured that he was not an Earl at that date, though possibly the word Comes may have been omitted (accidentally) by the scribe, who certainly omits the v/ord frater before Dolfini.
