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 1212 - 1275 Hugh Gobion 63 63 1201 Matilda Fitzjohn 1175 - 1230 Richard IV Gobion 55 55 1188 Agnes de Merlay Richard V Gobion William Gobion 1150 - 1182 Richard Gobion 32 32 1145 Beatrice de Lucelles 1120 - 1168 Hugh II Gobion 48 48 1090 Hugh Gobion 1140 - 1188 Roger de Merlay 48 48 1155 Alice de Stuteville 1140 - 1202 Roger de Stuteville 62 62 1098 - 1160 Ralph de Merlay 62 62 1115 Juliana de Dunbar D. 1129 William De Merlay Menialde Robert de Merlay Emma 1062 - 1138 Gospatric of Dunbar 76 76 1074 Sybil Morel 1100 - 1166 Gospatrick de Dunbar 66 66 Notes from http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I11084

EARLDOM OF DUNBAR (II) GOSPATRIC DE DUNBAR, EARL [SCT], son and heir, who, as "Gospatricus Comes," witnesses a charter of 1140. He was founder of the Cistercian nunneries at Coldstream and Eccles, co. Berwick. He married Derdere. He died I166. [Complete Peerage IV:505, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
 1039 - 1072 Gospatric of Dunbar 33 33 http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunbar/dunbarcastle/

Overlooking Dunbar Harbour are the fragmentary remains of what was once one of the mightiest castles in Scotland. The ruins are in a dangerous and precarious state and access has not been allowed since part of them collapsed into the sea in 1993. This is a castle  best viewed from a distance.

Defences were built on this rocky outcrop by the Votanidi tribe during the Romans' excursions into Scotland (see our Historical Timeline) and it was a Northumbrian stronghold in 650AD. It was later a Pictish fortress until captured by the Scots under Kenneth MacAlpin in 849AD. The first stone castle was probably constructed by the Earl of Dunbar in the 1070s.

Dunbar Castle was unsuccessfully attacked by the English in 1214, but Edward I had better luck in 1296. And Edward II sheltered at Dunbar Castle after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314. But perhaps Dunbar's most famous moment came in 1338 when "Black Agnes", the Countess of Moray, commanded the defence of the castle during a five month siege by the English.

The castle was rebuilt in the early 1400s, repelling another English siege in 1435 before being badly damaged by them in 1448. In 1488 it was slighted by the Scots to prevent its use by the English. Rebuilding in 1515 was followed by another English attack in 1548, and by further fortification by the French in 1550.

On 24 April 1567 Mary Queen of Scots was brought to Dunbar Castle by the Earl of Bothwell after his abduction of her, and the two later returned to the castle after their marriage on 15 May. After the Queen's subsequent surrender and abdication, the Scottish Parliament ordered the destruction of a castle so strong its possession destabilised the balance of power in Scotland.

The final indignity for Dunbar Castle came with the construction of the Victoria Harbour in 1844. A new entrance for Dunbar's harbours was blasted through the end of the rock on which the castle ruins stood: indeed, the process of firing explosives by electricity was invented especially for the job. " 1042 Aethelreda of England 1055 Aethelreda 1009 - 1045 Maldred of Dunbar 36 36 Lord of Allerdale and Carlisle
Regent of Strathclyde 1034
 1045 Maldred 0989 - 1018 Uchtred of Northumbria 29 29 0994 - 1038 Aeldred 44 44 Ealdulf 0993 Ecgfrida 0965 - 1006 Waltheof of Northumbria 41 41 0965 Elfeda 0992 Eadulf I 0953 - 0963 Osulf 10 10 D. 0930 Ealdred D. 0913 Eadulf 1010 - 1095 Arkil Morel 85 85 Note: aka Arkyl of YORKSHIRE; Thane in NORTHUMBRIA; (fled to Scotland after Norman invasion); (Sigrida's 3rd husband) 1253 Richard de Rothwell 0994 Eldred of England 1283 Joan de Rothwell 0995 Ealdgyth Morcarson 0995 Aelfgifu Saxe- Wessex Parents Ethelred II (The Unready) and Elfreda Gunnarsson?
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I47528&style=TABLE 1075 - 1161 Fergus Dunbar of Galloway 86 86 1062 - 1138 Walter Dunbar 76 76 Uchtred FitzMaldred Dorothy of Raby Dunbar 1037 Dorothy Agnes Ceanmore ~1086 Sigrid Ceanmore 1041 Patrick Ceanmore 1043 Fergus Ceanmore 1118 de Dunbar Uthred of Dundas D. 1140 Edgar Dunbar Alwyn Mor 0990 - 1018 Ecgfrith 28 28 Sige Gunnilda of Northumberland 1225 Richard de Rothwell D. 1234 Eustace de Morteyn 1198 Hillary Silvein 1172 - 1223 Richard Silvein 51 51 1160 - 1223 Eistace de Morteyn 63 63 1130 - 1180 Adam de Morteyn 50 50 1090 - 1176 Robert de Morteyn 86 86 Eustace de Morteyn 1211 - 1257 Ralph Fitz John de Merston 46 46 Ralph was a minor in 1227 and was of age in 1232. He held 1 1/2 knights' fees of Cainho Barony in Ampthill and Millbrook, Bedfordshire, in the Testa about 1241.
 Isabel de Clinton 1179 - 1227 John de Merston 48 48 John held lands nd a park in Marston Moretaine, Bedforshire, on 3 Feb 1213.
 John de Merston 1144 - 1213 Nigel de Merston 69 69 Nigel was probably a younger son of the Albini Lords of Cainho. He held 3 knights' fees of that barony in 1166. He appears in Bedford, Bedforshire, in 1202 and was alive in 1204. In 1086 Marston Moretaine formed a part of the possessions of Nigel de Albini, and was then a part of the barony of Cainho. Cainhoe was the name of a place located in Bedfordshire. There is no place in England by that name now. It is of interest to note the relative close proximity of Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire, and Marston St. Lawrence, Northhampshire. See the note under Humphrey de MERESTONA.
Moriarty, G. Andrews, "Ralph Fitz John or Ralph de Merston," pp. 122-127.
 1068 William de Gobio 1035 Guy de Gobio 1115 Hugh de Lucelles 1080 Richard de Lucelles 1055 William de Lucelles 1116 - 1192 Osmund de Stuteville 76 76 1183 - 1239 Roger de Merlay 56 56 1155 John de Merlay 1265 Alice Gubium 1166 - 1216 John Plantagenet of England 49 49 Signed the Magna Charta
Ruled 1199-1216

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Signed the Magna Carta in 1215. Reigned 1199-1216.

King John (December 24, 1167 - October 19, 1216) was King of England from 1199 to 1216. He was the youngest brother of King Richard I who was known as "Richard the Lionheart". Nicknames are "Lackland" (in French, sans terre) and "Soft-sword".

John is best known for angering the barons to rebellion, so that they forced him to agree to the Magna Carta in 1215, and then signing England over to the Pope to get out of the promises he made in that Great Charter. The truth, however, is that he was no better or worse a king than his immediate predecessor or his successor (which is still not much of a compliment).

Born at Oxford, he was the fifth son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and was always his father's favourite son, though being the youngest, he could expect no inheritance (hence his nickname, "Lackland"). In 1189 he married Isabel, daughter of the Earl of Gloucester. (She is given several alternative names by history, including Hawise (or Avice), Joan, and Eleanor.) They had no children, and John had their marriage annulled on the grounds of consanguinity, some time before or shortly after his accession to the throne, which took place on April 6, 1199. (She then married Hubert de Burgh).

Before his accession, John had already acquired a reputation for treachery, having conspired sometimes with and sometimes against his elder brothers, Henry, Geoffrey and Richard. In 1184, John and Richard both claimed that they were the rightful heir to the Aquitaine, one of many unfriendly encounters between the two. The 1185 though, John was given rule over Ireland, whose people grew to despise him, causing John to leave after only six months. During Richard's absence on crusade, John attempted to overthrow his designated regent, despite having been forbidden by his brother to leave France. This was one reason the older legend of Hereward the Wake was updated to King Richard's reign, with "Prince John" as the ultimate villain and the hero now called "Robin Hood". However, on his return to England in 1194, Richard forgave John and named him as his heir.

On Richard's death, John was not universally recognised as king. His young nephew, Arthur of Brittany, the posthumous son of his brother Geoffrey, was regarded by some as the rightful heir, and John eventually disposed of him around 1203, thus adding to his reputation for ruthlessness. In the meantime, he had married, on August 24, 1200, Isabella of Angouleme, who was twenty years his junior. Isabella eventually produced five children, including two sons (Henry and Richard). At around this time John also married off his illegitimate daughter, Joan, to the Welsh prince, Llywelyn the Great, building an alliance in the hope of keeping peace within England and Wales so that he would be free to recover his French lands. The French king had declared most of these forfeit in 1204, leaving John only Gascony in the southwest.

As far as the administration of his kingdom went, John was quite a just and enlightened ruler, but he won the disapproval of the barons by taxing them. Particularly unpopular was the tax known as scutage, which was a penalty for those who failed to supply military resources. He also fell out with the Pope by rejecting Stephen Langton, the official candidate for the position of Archbishop of Canterbury. This resulted in John's being excommunicated. He was having much the same kind of dispute with the church as his father had had before him. Unfortunately, his excommunication was an encouragement to his political rivals to rise against him. Having successfully put down the Welsh uprising of 1211, he turned his attentions back to his overseas interests and regained the approval of Pope Innocent III.

The European wars culminated in a defeat which forced the king to accept an unfavourable peace with France. This finally turned the barons against him, and he met their leaders at Runnymede, near London, on June 15, 1215, to sign the Great Charter called, in Latin, Magna Carta. Because it had been signed under duress, however, John felt entitled to break it as soon as hostilities had ceased. It was the following year that John, retreating from a threatened French invasion, crossed the marshy area known as The Wash in East Anglia and lost his most valuable treasures, including the Crown Jewels, as a result of the unexpected incoming tide. This was a terrible blow, which affected his health and state of mind, and he succumbed to dysentery, dying on October 18 or October 19, 1216, at Newark in Lincolnshire*, and is buried in Worcester Cathedral in the city of Worcester. He was succeeded by his nine-year-old son as King Henry III of England.

*Footnote: Newark is now within the County of Nottinghamshire, close to its long boundary with Lincolnshire.

Was King John illiterate?

For a long time, school children have been taught that King John had to approve the Magna Carta by attaching his seal to it because he could not sign it, being unable to read or write. The textbooks that said that were the same kind that said Christopher Columbus wanted to prove the earth was round. Whether the original authors of these errors knew better and oversimplified because they were writing for children, or whether they had been misinformed themselves, the result was generations of adults who remembered mainly two things about "wicked King John," and both of them wrong. (The other one being that if Robin Hood had not stepped in, Prince John would have embezzled the money raised to ransom King Richard.) In fact, King John did sign the draft of the Charter that was hammered out in the tent on Charter Island at Runnymede on 15 - 18 June 1215, but it took the clerks and scribes working in the royal offices some time after everyone went home to prepare the final copies, which were then sealed and delivered to the appropriate officials. In those days, legal documents were sealed to make them official, not signed. (Even today, many legal documents are not considered effective without the seal of a notary public or corporate official, and printed legal forms such as deeds say "L.S." next to the signature lines. That stands for the Latin locus signilli ("place of the seal"), signifying that the signer is using a signature as a substitute for a seal.) When William the Conqueror (and his wife) signed the Accord of Winchester in 1072, for example, they and all the bishops signed with crosses, as illiterate people would later do, but it was because it was the legal practice, not because the bishops could not write their own names.

Henry II had at first intended for his son Prince John to be educated to go into the Church, which would have meant Henry did not have to give him any land, but in 1171 Henry began negotiations to betroth John to the daughter of Count Humbert III of Maurienne-Savoy (who had no son yet and so wanted a son-in-law), and after that there was no more talk of making John a churchman. John's parents were both well educated -- Henry II spoke some half dozen languages, and Eleanor of Aquitaine had attended lectures at what was about to become the University of Paris, in addition to what they had been taught of law and government, religion, and literature -- and John was one of the best educated kings England ever had. Some of the books the records show he read were: De Sacramentis Christianae Fidei by Hugh of St. Victor, Sentences by Peter Lombard, The Treatise of Origen, and a history of England that was probably Robert Wace's Roman de Brut, based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae.
 1075 Uchtred FitzMaldred 1063 Warner de Condor Event: Domesday tenant of Robert Peverel in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Fact 1086

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   1. Title: Foundatiions of Medieval Genealogy
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      Page: Vol 1, Issue II p 117  1025 Warner de Lisours 1050 Turold de Lisours 1070 Fulk de Lisours 1214 Constantia de Morteyn 1140 Hugh de Salvain 1174 Hillaria de Salvain 1174 Hillaria de Salvain 1112 - 1166 Richard de Merston 54 54 Richardus de Merston son of Nigel fitz Erfast, tenant of Marston in the Bedfordshire honour of Cainhoe. Occurs in the 1140s. Nigel de Merston, presumably his son, held three fees of the honour in 1166. [Domesday Descendants p582]

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   1. Title: Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of People Occuring in English Documents 1066-1166; K B S Keats-Rohan {2002}
      Page: 582  1088 - 1203 Nigel FitzErfast 115 115 Nigel filius Erfasti, son of Erfast, tenant of Cainhoe, Bedfordshire. About 1130 he granted land in and the church of Henlow, Bedfordshire, to Lanthony priory. He later attemped to revoke the grant, but then repented. Father of a son Richard and daughters, he later became a canon of Llanthony, though a prolonged dispute between the bishops of Hereford and Lincoln concerning his gift at Henlow continued thereafter. In 1166 he was probably represented by Nigel of Marston who held three fees of Cainhoe. [Domesday Descendants p882]

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   1. Title: Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of People Occuring in English Documents 1066-1166; K B S Keats-Rohan {2002}
      Page: 882  Erfast tenant of Cainhoe Henry de Clinton 0990 - 1018 Ecgfrith 28 28 1057 Edgitha of Northumberland 1016 Edgina Generated by GenoPro®. Click here for details.