Gospatric I of Northumbria 
Gospatric I of was born about 1040 in Allerdale,Cumbria,England.1 Gospatric I of's father was Maldred King of Strathclyde Scotland and his mother was Ealdgyth Princess of Northumbria. His paternal grandparents were Crinan Thane Scotland and Bethoc Princess Scotland; his maternal grandparents were Uchtred (Ughtred) Earl of Northumbria and AElfgifu (Elgiva) of England. He had a brother and a sister, named Fergus McDonald Lord of and Daughter of Maldred of. He died on December 15th, 1074 in Ubbanford,Northumberland,England.1 General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Mormaer of Dunbar
Gospatric; installed 1068/9 by William I the Conqueror as Earl, then predominantly an administrative post after his payment of a heavy fine or what
would now be thought of as an entrance fee (though his hereditary claim through his maternal grandfather also played a part). Later (Oct or Nov 1072)
deprived of the Earldom on a charge of having taken part in a massacre at Durham; fled to Scotland, where his cousin Malcolm III of Scotland granted
him the Mormaership of Dunbar. [Burke's Peerage]
Gospatric was son and heir of Maldred, who in turn was son of Crinan, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld in what is now
Perthshire. Gospatric held the Earldom from c Feb 1068/9 to 1072. Gospatric had a hereditary claim to the office of Earl of Northumberland, as did
several of his successors. Disloyalty or incompetence in governing could lead to an Earls being deprived of his position, however, and when Gospatric
rebelled he was ejected. [Burke's Peerage, Earldom & Dukedom of Northumberland, p. 2117]
Pilgrimage to Rome 1061.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0980 in Abbot Dunkeld Scotland d.1045 in slain
- b.~ 1010 d.1045
- b.< 0942 in reigned king 942-954 d.> 0954 in Scotland
- b.~ 0932 in reigned king 971-995 d.0995 in Scotland
- b.~ 0958 in King 1003 d.25 Nov 1034 in assassinated Scotland
- b.~ 0984 in Scotland
- b.~ 1040 in Allerdale,Cumbria,England d.15 Dec 1074 in Ubbanford,Northumberland,England
- b.~ 0930 in Northumberland,England d.~ 0965
- b.0960 in Of,,Northumberland,England d.1008 in KILLED BY THURBRAND,THE DANE
- b.0989 in of Northumberland,England d.1016 in Murdered,Wighill,Yorkshire,England
- b.0965
- b.1016 in Northumberland,England d.1040/1100
- b.~ 0922 in ,,Wessex,England d.26 May 946 in Battle
- b.0943 in the Peaceful 2nd husband d.8 Jul 976 in king 959-975
- b.~ 0968 in Unready Wessex England d.23 Apr 1016 in London England
- b.~ 0755 in Of,,Wessex,England d.4 Feb 838/839 in ,,Wessex,England
- b.0945 in Devon,Devonshire,England d.1002
- b.0762 in Wessex,England d.0858 in England
- b.0990 in of Wessex,England d.1055 in Y
- b.~ 0908
- b.~ 0968 in Wessex England
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Gospatric I of and Aethelreda of were married in a religious ceremony in 1057.1 They had two sons and two daughters, named Gospatric II, Waltheof Earl of, Eldgitha of and Aethelreda of.
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Children
Gospatric II Dunbar
Gospatric II was born in 1062 in Dunbar Castle,East Lothian,Scotland.1 He died at the age of 76 on August 22nd, 1138.1
Aethelreda of Northumbria
Aethelreda of was born about 1065 in Dunbar Castle,East Lothian,Scotland.1
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