General Notes

Upon the death of Robert Comyn, Earl of Northumberland, Gospatrick, son of Maldred, son of Crinan (which Maldred was progenitor to the second dynasty of the great family of Neville, still represented by the Earls of Abergavenny) obtained the earldom of the co. of Northumberland from the Conqueror for a large sum of money, but soon afterwards becoming dissatisfied with the sway of the new ruler, Gospatrick, with other northern chiefs, fled into Scotland and was well received by King Malcolm Canmore. From Scotland, the earl made several hostile incursions into England, and was deprived of the earldom for those repeated treasons. He subsequently obtained Dunbar with the adjacent lands in London from the Scottish monarch for his subsistence, but d. soon afterwards, leaving issue, Dolphin, Gospatrick, 2nd Earl of Dunbar, and Waldene, of Cockermouth Castle. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 139, Cospatrick, Earl of Northumberland]
Gospatric, made Earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror, was deprived of that Earldom soon after ad fled to Scotland, where King Malcolm Canmore gave him Dunbar and the lands adjoining. The monks of Durham celebrated 15 December, 1069, the death of this Gospatricius, Earl and Monk. In 1821, a stone coffin inscribed on its lid, "Gospatricius, Comes," was found in the monks' burial ground at Durham. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 606, Dunbar, Earls of Dunbar and March]