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noble, and one of the leading figures during the reign of King

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. Said to be aged forty-six at the time of his father's death, this Patrick was the eldest son of

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and Ada, daughter of King

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. He probably succeeded to his father's lands some time before the latter's death on 31 December 1232, as his father was elderly and had been ill for some time. He renounced his claim to some disputed Marches in lower

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to the monks of Melrose, and in 1235 he, with Adam, Abbot of Melrose, and Gilbert,

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, led an expedition against an uprising in

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. He accompanied King

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and was a witness and guarantor to the treaty with King

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, in 1237. Shortly after 1242 the Earl of Dunbar was sent to subdue the rebellious Thane of

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. The Earl held first rank among the twenty-four barons who guaranteed the Treaty of Peace with England in 1244.

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relates, he accompanied Lindsay of Glenesk, and Stewart of Dundonald to crusade, where he died in 1249 at the siege of Damietta in

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. Before 1213, he married Euphemia (d. 1267 at

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), whom historians had previously believed to be daughter of Walter FitzAlan, 3rd High Steward of Scotland and lord of

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Patrick Dunbar, fifth earl of Dunbar (c. 1186June 1249)
Euphemia's father was, however, certainly not Walter FitzAlan. Issue by Euphemia: * Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar. * Waldeve (Waltheof), Rector of Dunbar, named as son of Earl Patrick by Pope Innocent IV in an indult to him dated 3 February 1245, at Lyons.Bliss, W H. "Calendar of Papal Registers Relating To Great Britain and Ireland" (London, 1893). Volume 1, p. 214.

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* Anderson, Alan O., M.A., ''Scottish Annals from English Chroniclers AD500 to 1286'', London, 1908, p. 360. * Dunbar, Sr Archibald H., Bt., ''Scottish Kings, a Revised Chronology of Scottish History, 1005 - 1625'', Edinburgh, 1899, p. 282. * McDonald, Andrew, 'Patrick, fourth earl of Dunbar (d. 1232)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'',

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*Where he is wrongly styled "Patrick I" * Seven Scottish Countesses: A Miscellany - III. Cristina de Brus, Countess of Dunbar, Vol. 17, no.2, pages 223-233 {{DEFAULTSORT:Dunbar, Patrick II, Earl of People from East Lothian Scottish soldiers Christians of the Seventh Crusade 1185 births 1248 deaths Earls of Dunbar 13th-century mormaers