Patrick I (c.11521232),

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 lord of

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, was a 13th-century

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- Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of

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and Alina, and succeeded to his father's titles upon the latter's death in 1182. Patrick was one of the most important magnates to Kings

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and

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, frequently witnessing their charters and traveling in their entourages whenever they went to the south of England to perform homage to the King of England for the properties in that realm. Patrick also served as

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as well as

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. Like his predecessors (who were originally of the kindred of the native English

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), some of Patrick's most important lands were in northern England. Patrick's close association with the Scottish kings in fact got him in trouble, and perhaps because of Alexander II's pursuit of claims to the earldom of Northumberland, Waltheof found himself temporarily deprived of some of his lands by King

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. Patrick married (1) Ada (died 1200), an illegitimate daughter of King

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, by whom he had four sons and a daughter: *

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(his successor), * William, who witnessed a charter as "fratre Comitis" c. 12401248Harvey, Charles C.H. & MacLeod, John, ''Calendar of Writs preserved at Yester House 1166-1625'',

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, Edinburgh, 1930, p.8, no.14. * Robert, * Fergus, * Ada, who married her second cousin Sir William de Greenlaw (son of Sir Patrick de Greenlaw, son of

Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian 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, and feudal Lord of Beanley. He was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian (later called Earl of Dunbar ...

). Her dowry was Home Castle, and Sir William later became known as 'de Home' in her right. The couple were progenitors of the

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. His first wife predeceasing him, Patrick married again: (2) Christina, widow of

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. No children are known by this marriage. The Earl of Dunbar died on 31 December 1232. He was buried at the

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References

* McDonald, Andrew, 'Patrick, fourth earl of Dunbar (d. 1232)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
retrieved 28 Nov 2006
* McDonald, Andrew, 'Waltheof, third earl of Lothian (d. 1182)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
retrieved 28 Nov 2006
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