Gospatric I Earl of Northumbria Mormaer Dunbar 
Gospatric I Earl of Northumbria Mormaer was born about 1040 in Allerdale, Cumbria, England. Gospatric I Earl of Northumbria Mormaer's father was Maldred Lord of Carlisle & Allerdale and his mother was Aeldgyth (Edith) of Northumbria. His paternal grandparents were Crinan the Thane Lay Abbot of Dunkeld and Bethoc (Beatrix) Princess of Scotland. He had a brother named Maldred of. He was the older of the two children. He died on December 15th, 1074 in Ubbanford now Norham, Northumberland, England.General Notes
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]
A subsequent Earl of Nothumberland was Gospatric, 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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- b.~ 0949 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland d.> 0990 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.0978 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Killed in Battle against Macbeth, who (1040) slew his son Duncan
- b.1003 in Allerdale, Cumbria, England d.1045 in Slain in battle avenging Duncan's murder by Macbeth
- b.0954 in Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis, Angus, Scotland (murdered)
- b.~ 0984 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.1045 in Scotland
- b.~ 0962 in Scotland
- b.~ 1040 in Allerdale, Cumbria, England d.15 Dec 1074 in Ubbanford now Norham, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1015 in Northumbria, England
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Gospatric I Earl of Northumbria Mormaer and Aethelreda of were married in a religious ceremony in 1057. They had two sons and three daughters, named Gospatric II 1st Earl of, Waltheof Lord of, Dorothy Agnes, Athelreda of and Gunnilda of.
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Children
Gospatric II 1st Earl of Dunbar , Sir
Gospatric II 1st Earl of 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.
Athelreda of Northumberland
Athelreda of was born about 1065 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland.
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