Gospatric I Mormaer Northumbria 
Gospatric I Mormaer was born about 1040 in Allerdale, Cumbria, England. Gospatric I Mormaer's mother is Ealdgyth (Edith) Of Northumbria. He was an only child. He died on December 15th, 1074 in Ubbanford Now Norham, Northumberland, England. He was buried in , Norham, Northumberland, England.General Notes
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Earl Of Northumbria
Gospatric; installed 1068/9 by William I the Conqueror as E
arl, then predominantly an administrative post after his pa
yment of a heavy fine or what would now be thought of as a
n entrance fee (though his hereditary claim through his mat
ernal grandfather also played a part). Later (Oct or Nov 1
072) deprived of the Earldom on a charge of having taken pa
rt in a massacre at Durham; fled to Scotland, where his cou
sin Malcolm III of Scotland granted him the Mormaership o
f Dunbar. [Burke's Peerage]
A subsequent Earl of Nothumberland was Gospatric, son and h
eir of Maldred, who in turn was son of Crinan, Lay Abbot o
f Dunkeld in what is now Perthshire. Gospatric held the Ea
rldom from c Feb 1068/9 to 1072. Gospatric had a hereditar
y claim to the office of Earl of Northumberland, as did sev
eral of his successors. Disloyalty or incompetence in gove
rning could lead to an Earls being deprived of his position
, however, and when Gospatric rebelled he was ejected. [Bu
rke's Peerage, Earldom & Dukedom of Northumberland, p. 2117]
Pilgrimage to Rome 1061.
Gospatric; installed 1068/9 by William I the Conqueror as E
arl, then predominantly an administrative post after his pa
yment of a heavy fine or what would now be thought of as a
n entrance fee (though his hereditary claim through his mat
ernal grandfather also played a part). Later (Oct or Nov 1
072) deprived of the Earldom on a charge of having taken pa
rt in a massacre at Durham; fled to Scotland, where his cou
sin Malcolm III of Scotland granted him the Mormaership o
f Dunbar. [Burke's Peerage]
A subsequent Earl of Nothumberland was Gospatric, son and h
eir of Maldred, who in turn was son of Crinan, Lay Abbot o
f Dunkeld in what is now Perthshire. Gospatric held the Ea
rldom from c Feb 1068/9 to 1072. Gospatric had a hereditar
y claim to the office of Earl of Northumberland, as did sev
eral of his successors. Disloyalty or incompetence in gove
rning could lead to an Earls being deprived of his position
, however, and when Gospatric rebelled he was ejected. [Bu
rke's Peerage, Earldom & Dukedom of Northumberland, p. 2117]
Pilgrimage to Rome 1061.
He had a biological son named Gospatric II.
Family Notes
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Children
Gospatric II Dunbar
Gospatric II was born in 1062 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland. He died at the age of 76 on August 22nd, 1138 in Battle Of The Standard, Northallerton, Yorkshire, England.
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