Patrick III, 7th Earl of Dunbar ( 121324 August 1289) was lord of the feudal barony of

Dunbar Dunbar () is a town on the North Sea coast in East Lothian in the south-east of Scotland, approximately east of Edinburgh and from the English border north of Berwick-upon-Tweed. Dunbar is a former royal burgh, and gave its name to an ecc ...

and its castle, which dominated East Lothian, and the most important military personage in the Scottish Borders.

Background

Said to be aged 35 in 1248,Richardson (2005) p.209 he was the son of Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (by Eupheme de Brus), who was son of

Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar Patrick I (c.11521232), Earl of Dunbar and lord of Beanley, was a 13th-century Anglo- Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar and Alina, and succeeded to his father's titles upon the latter's death in 1182. Patrick w ...

, who was son of Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar, who was descendant in male line of

Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of aint Patrick"), (died after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria, or of Bernicia, and later lord of sizable estates around Dunbar. His male-line descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar, later known ...

. His successors controlled the marches, but the title ''Earl of March'' was only assumed by

Patrick IV, Earl of March Patrick IV, 8th Earl of Dunbar and Earl of March (124210 October 1308), sometimes called Patrick de Dunbar "8th" Earl of March, was the most important magnate in the border regions of Scotland. He was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scot ...

Career

Patrick did homage for his lands in England to King Henry III in 1249. The earl was part of the English faction who opposed the Comyns and in 1255 he and others procured the dismissal of the Comyns and their faction from power. The same year he was nominated Regent and Guardian of the King and Queen. In 1258 the Comyn's faction prevailed, and Earl Patrick was excluded from the government. In 1263 he founded a monastery for the Carmelites or White Friars in Dunbar; and led the left division of the Scottish army at the

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the same year. In 1266 when

Magnus V of Norway Magnus Erlingsson ( non, Magnús Erlingsson, 1156 – 15 June 1184) was a king of Norway (being Magnus V) during the civil war era in Norway. He was the first known Scandinavian monarch to be crowned in Scandinavia. He helped to establish primog ...

ceded the

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and the

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to King

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, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the

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, signed in

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in 1266. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway in 1281. In 1284 he attended the parliament at

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which declared the Princess Margaret of Norway to be heiress to the Scottish Crown. He died at

Whittingehame Whittingehame is a parish with a small village in East Lothian, Scotland, about halfway between Haddington and Dunbar, and near East Linton. The area is on the slopes of the Lammermuir Hills. Whittingehame Tower dates from the 15th century an ...

, and was buried at

, East Lothian.

Marriage

He married firstly, before 1240, Cecily, daughter of John FitzRobert, Lord of

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(died 1240), He married secondly Christiana, daughter of

Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of Annandale Robert V de Brus (Robert de Brus), 5th Lord of Annandale (ca. 1215 – 31 March or 3 May 1295), was a feudal lord, justice and constable of Scotland and England, a regent of Scotland, and a competitor for the Scottish throne in 1290/92 in the ...

, the "Competitor" (1210–1295),Fiona Watson, "Dunbar, Patrick, eighth earl of Dunbar or of March, and earl of Moray (1285–1369)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, September 2004; online edn, October 200
Retrieved 29 September 2008
/ref> and had five known children: *

, a "Competitor" (1242–1308), son and heir. * Sir John de Dunbar, Knt. * Sir Alexander de Dunbar, Knt. * Agnes de Dunbar, who married Christell de Seton, 'in Jedburgh Forrest' (died c. 1300) * Cecily (or Cecilia) de Dunbar, who married Sir

James Stewart, 5th High Steward of Scotland James Stewart (c. 1260 - 16 July 1309) was the 5th Hereditary High Steward of Scotland and a Guardian of Scotland during the List of monarchs of Scotland#First Interregnum 1290-1292, First Interregnum. Origins He was the eldest surviving son of ...

. Although some sources show Christiana de Brus as Patrick's wife and the mother of his children, other sources are in disagreement with this. According to ''The Scots Peerage'', 'Cecilia filia Johannis' was his only recorded wife and mother of his sons, based on a charter by her eldest son. ''The Complete Peerage'' shows 'Cecil, da. of John' as his wife and states that Christian Bruce was erroneously assigned as his wife in Wood's ''Douglas''.Cokayne, George E. ''The Complete Peerage''. (1916 ed.). London: The St Catherine Press. Vol. IV, p. 506. Retrieved 31 December 2015.

Notes

References

* Burke, Sir Bernard,

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, ''Burke's Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages'', London, 1883, p. 606. * Rymer, Thomas,''Foedera Conventiones, Literae et cuiuscunque generis Acta Publica inter Reges Angliae''. London. 1745. (Latin

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