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Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria

Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric form of the Brittonic name element Gwas-Patric, 'devotee or servant of Patrick'), (d. after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria and later lord of extensive estates centred on Dunbar. His male-line descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar, later known as the Earldom of March, in southeastern Scotland until 1435, and the Lordship and Earldom of Home from 1473 to the present.