Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian
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Gospatric III or Cospatric III (died 1166) was a twelfth-century Anglo-Celtic noble, who was Earl of Lothian and later the
Earl of Dunbar The title Earl of Dunbar, also called Earl of Lothian or Earl of March, was the head of a comital lordship in south-eastern Scotland between the early 12th century and the early 15th century. The first man to use the title of Earl in this earldom ...
, and feudal Lord of Beanley. He was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian (later called
Earl of Dunbar The title Earl of Dunbar, also called Earl of Lothian or Earl of March, was the head of a comital lordship in south-eastern Scotland between the early 12th century and the early 15th century. The first man to use the title of Earl in this earldom ...
). He appeared for the first time as a witness in a charter representing his father's grant to
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. After his father's death in 1138, he inherited his father's territories in
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, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders. He bore the title "Earl of Lothian" on his seal. The following year "the son of Earl Gospatric and the son of Hugh de Morville and the son of earl Fergus (of Galloway)" were asked to go as hostages in negotiations with King
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. He married a Scottish woman called Deirdre, and by her fathered three sons, Waltheof, Earl of Lothian, Uchtred deDundas and Sir Patrick de Greenlaw (
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). Gospatric was a great religious patron, granting lands to many of his neighbouring abbeys. He even appears to have become a monk himself, and when he died there in 1166Anderson, Alan O., MA Edin., ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers AD500 to 1286'', London, 1908, p.245 where, citing Roger Hovenden's ''Chronica'' he states "In the same year 166died earl Gospatrick, and his son Waldeve succeeded him". he was probably already part of the monastic community where he was buried, at
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. * McDonald, R. Andrew "Gospatric, second earl of Lothian (d. 1166)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography,
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