Earl of Northumbria Gospatric of Dunbar I (Gospatric I, Earl of Dunbar, Cospatric, Gospatric of Northumberland) 
Gospatric of Dunbar was born in 1039 in Northumberland, England.1 Gospatric of Dunbar's father was King of Cumberland Maldred of Dunbar and his mother was Ealdgyth Morcarson. His paternal grandparents were Abbot of Dunkeld Crinan Atholl and Bethoc of Scotland; his maternal grandparents were Earl of Northumbria Uchtred (The Bold) and Aelfgifu Saxe-Wessex. He had four brothers and two sisters, named Patrick, Fergus, Maldred, Uchtred, Dorothy and Sigrid. He was the second oldest of the seven children. He died at the age of 33 on December 15th, 1072 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland.2 General Notes
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. "
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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.0890 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- b.0920 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.0965 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland
<Unknown>
- b.0948
- d.0937
- b.0920 d.0960
<Unknown>
- b.0975 d.1045
<Unknown>
- b.1009 in Mar, Aberdeenshire, Scotland d.1045
- b.0899 in Argyll, Dál Riata, Scotland d.0954 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
- b.0930 in Argyll, Dál Riata, Scotland d.0995 in Finela's Castle, Fettercain, Dál Riata, Scotland
<Unknown>
- b.0954 in Argyll, Dál Riata, Scotland d.25 Nov 1034 in Glamis Castle, Angus, Forfarshire, Scotland
- b.0890 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland d.0956
- b.0930 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
<Unknown>
- b.0984 in Angus, Scotland d.1045
- b.0942 in Scotland
- b.0962 in Fordoun, Kincardineshire, Scotland
<Unknown>
- b.1039 in Northumberland, England d.15 Dec 1072 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
- d.0930
- b.0953 in Northumbria, England d.0963
<Unknown>
- b.0965 in Northumbria, England d.1006
<Unknown>
- b.0989 in Northumberland, England d.1018
- b.0965 in Northumberland, England
- b.0995 in Northumberland, England
- b.0922 in Wessex, England d.26 May 0946 in England
- b.0944 d.08 Jul 0975 in Winchester, England
- b.0922 in Wessex, England d.0944
- b.0968 d.23 Apr 1016 in London, England
- b.0921 in Mercia, England
- b.0947 d.1000
- b.0905 in Mercia, England
- b.0995 in Wessex, England
- b. in Tamworth d.0943
- b.0930 d.1002
<Unknown>
- b.0965 in Mercia
<Unknown>
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Details of Gospatric of Dunbar's family with Princess Aethelreda of England
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=michaelrneuman&id=I016315&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I49238&style=TABLE
3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I51432
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tjglad&id=I75983&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I49238&style=TABLE
3 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I51432
Further source/citation:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=tjglad&id=I75983&style=TABLE
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