Patrick 7th Earl of Dunbar III

• Preferred Name: Patrick 7th Earl of Dunbar III^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• MilitaryService: present at the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle1300 with note: Wikiwand: Patrick IV, Earl of March
  
• Nickname:
  
• FSID: LZ81-PB7
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 8th Earl of March; Earl of DunbarBET 1290 AND 1308
  
• Death: 24 AUG 1289 in Whittingham, East Lothian, Scotland
  
• Occupation: Knight
  
• Occupation: King's Lieutenant for Scotland
  
• Birth: 1213 in Scotland
  
• MilitaryService: Summoned by King Edward I to assist him at war in Gascony1294 with note: Wikipedia.
  
• Burial: 1308 in Dunbar, , East Lothian, Scotland at LATI: N6.0022 LONG: E2.5169
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Patrick IV, Earl of March (1242 – 10 October 1308), sometimes called Patrick de Dunbar "8th" Earl of March,[1][2][3][4][5] was the most important magnate in the border regions of Scotland. He was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland.
  
  Succession
  Said to be aged 47 at his father's death, Sir Patrick de Dunbar, Knight, Earl of Dunbar, had livery of his father's lands on 14 May 1290. It appears that this Earl of Dunbar assumed the additional alternate title Earl of March, as he appeared designated Comes de Marchia at the parliament at Birgham in 1290,[6] for the purpose of betrothing the Princess Margaret to the son of King Edward I of England. (This failed to come about).
  
  Ambition and submission
  He was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland in 1291, when he entered a formal claim in right of his great-grandmother, Ada, Countess of Dunbar, an illegitimate daughter of William The Lion, King of Scots.[7] Like so many Scottish noblemen, including the Bruces, Dunbar held lands in England also which required knights' services, and he was summoned by King Edward I in 1294 to assist him at war in Gascony.
  
  Fealty, then disobedience
  The Earl of Dunbar and March, with the Earl of Angus, Robert Bruce the elder, and his son the Earl of Carrick, swore fealty to the English King at Wark on 25 March 1296. In this turbulent year he appears to have been betrayed by his wife, who took the Scottish side and retained the castle of Dunbar for Balliol, but was obliged to surrender it to King Edward I of England in April 1296.[7] In 1297 it appears that the Earl ceased his allegiance to Edward I, held his lands of the Scottish Crown, and was favourably received by Sir William Wallace, with whom he had been in bitter battle the previous year!
  
  In 1298 he was King's Lieutenant for Scotland, and in 1300 was present at the siege of Caerlaverock Castle, with his eldest son and heir, Patrick.
  
  Marriage
  The Earl married, before 1282, Marjorie, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan[8] by his spouse Elizabeth,[9] daughter of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester by Ellen of Galloway.[10][11][12]'
  
  They had known issue:
  Patrick V, Earl of March (1285–1369).
  John de Dunbar of Derchester & Birkynside, father of George de Dunbar, 10th Earl of March.
  George de Dunbar, ancestor of the Mochrum family.[13]
  Cecilia (not to be mistaken for Cecily, her aunt, who married James Stewart, High Steward of Scotland. Cecilia was probably born c.1291)
  Isabella (married Roger Fitzjohn, 4th Baron Clavering).
  [Note: Medieval Lands shows and additional son, Alexander.]
  
  [Source: Wikipedia, "Patrick IV, Earl of March", retrieved 20 October 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]
  
  === Burke: Dormant & Extinct Peerages P. 60 ===
  Burke: Dormant & Extinct Peerages P. 606
  
  === [margaret dunbar.ged] ===
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  Patrick, the 8th Earl of Dunbar was also called Earl of March. He wasone of the competitors for the crown of Scotland but withdrew hisclaim and swore allegiance to Edward I.
  
  === Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar ===
  Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  
  Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar (-1289) was lord of the fortress of Dunbar, dominating much of Lothian, and the most important fiefholder in the border regions of Scotland against England. He descended, in an allegedly legitimate unbroken male line, from a member of Dunkeld and St.Columba clan, Maldred of Allerdale, a younger brother of the first Dunkeld King Duncan I of Scotland. (Maldred of Dunkeld allegedly also was a younger son of Princess Bethoc of Scotland.) He was the son of Patrick, 6th Earl of Dunbar, who was son of Patrick, 5th Earl of Dunbar, who was son of Patrick, 4th Earl of Dunbar, who was descendant in male line of Gospatrick, Earl of Northumbria and 1st lord of Dunbar, son of Maldred. Gospatrick descended from ancient Anglo-Saxon Earls of Northumbria, from whom both Dunbar's patrimony and Dunbar's claims to certain English lands are derived. The lords of Dunbar, Earls in the Scottish border were descended from Crinan of Dunkeld, whose younger son Maldred married Algitha, daughter of Ughtred, earl of Northumberland, by Elgiva, daughter of the Saxon king Ethelred the Unready. Maldred’s son Cospatrick, or Gospatric, was made earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror; but being soon afterwards deprived of this position he fled to Scotland, where Malcolm III, King of Scotland, welcomed him and granted him Dunbar and the adjoining lands - he is counted as the 1st Earl of Dunbar. His successors controlled the marches, but the title Earl of March was only assumed by the eighth Earl of Dunbar, son of the 7th earl.
  
  Thus, one of his son's claims to the kingship of Scotland was as the agnate of the House of Dunkeld, being (a) the closest agnate, and (b) a candidate based on tanistry of agnates of the house where the deceased Alexander III belonged to.
  
  His grandfather, Patrick, 5th Earl of Dunbar, was son of the 4th Earl of Dunbar and his wife Ada, natural daughter of King William the Lion.
  
  The 7th Earl was married with Marjory de Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, 2nd Earl of Buchan, allegedly descended from King Donald III Bane.
  
  Preceded by:
  Patrick de Dunbar Earl of Dunbar Succeeded by:
  Patrick de Dunbar
  
  === Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar; a ===
  Patrick de Dunbar, 7th Earl of Dunbar; also from c 1290 known as (1st) Earl of March from his possessions on the Border, or March, with England, and more familiarly as "Black-Beard", a claimant to the vacant Scottish Crown 1291 but quite soon dropped the claim; allying himself with the English in their war against the Scots 1296 and being made King Edward I's Lt. of Scotland 1298 and taking part with the English in the Siege of Carlaverock 1300 (on which occasion in one source the title is revived for him of Earl of Lothian). m by 1282 Marjory Comyn (apparently of completely opposite loyalties to those of her husband since she held out in Dunbar Castle on behalf of the Scots against besieging English till obliged to capitulate in April 1296). [Burke's Peerage]
  
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  PATRICK (DE DUNBAR), EARL OF DUNBAR [SCT], who, first of his race, is called EARL OF MARCH [b] [SCT], son and heir, aged 47 in 1289. He had livery of his father's lands 14 May 1290. He was one of the competitors for the Crown of Scotland, lodging his Petition 3 August 1291, at Berwick, in right of his great-grandmother, the Countess Ada, (illegitimate] daughter of King William. This claim he soon withdrew, swearing fealty to Edward I on 25 March 1296, and taking the English side when hostilities began that year. In 1298 he was the King's Lieutenant for Scotland, and in 1300 was with his son Patrick at the siege of Carlaverock.
  
  He married, in or shortly before 1282, Marjory, daughter of Alexander (COMYN), EARL OF BUCHAN [SCT], by Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Roger (DE QUINCI), EARL OF WINCHESTER. She held the Castle of Dunbar for the Scots till forced, 29 April 1296, to surrender it to Edward I. He died 10 October 1308, aged 66. [Complete Peerage IV:506-7 (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
  [b] i.e. of the Scottish Marches or border lands. The Merse, or March, was part of the lands in Berwickshire granted, in 1072, by Malcolm III to Earl Gospatric. It was not till the Parl. at Brigham, in Mar. 1290, that the Earl of Dunbar appears to have assumed the designation of Earl of March [Comes de Marchia], since which period these Earls were generally known as "of March." The Welsh Marches, similarly, gave the title of "Earl of March" to the House of Mortimer, 1328 to 1424.
  
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  Sir Patrick, 'with the blak beard,' eighth Earl of Dunbar, appears first as son of Earl Patrick, confirming grants by his father and his mother whom he styles 'Cecilia filia Johannis.' In 1281 he was one of the witnesses to the marriage-contract of the Princess Margaret, already cited, and in 1286 he appears with his father and two younger brothers in the compact with Bruce at Turnberry. He was forty-seven years of age when he succeeded his father, and was the first who openly assumed the title of Earl of March. though in his claim to the Crown he styles himself the third earl. He attended the Parliament at Brigham on 14 March 1289-90, but after the death of the 'Maid of Norway' he, with others, laid cliam to the Crown of Scotland, on the ground that his great-grandfather Patrick, the fifth Earl, had married Ada, an illegitimate daughter of King William the Lion. But he soon withdrew from the competitorship.
  
  The usual inquest was held before he received possession of his English lands, but in 1293 Beanley and other estates were placed under arrest for his contumacy in delaying to answer a summons to show his right. They were, however, soon restored. In 1294 he was called, with other Scottish magnates, to join King Edward I in his expedition against France. In 1295 his English lands were again taken into the King's hands, but only for a short period, and he remained faithful to Edward I when King John Baliol renounced his fealty. The Earl's wife held his castle of Dunbar against an English force in April 1297, but was obliged to surrender it with all the Scottish nobles who had taken refuge there after their defeat at Dunbar. Earl Patrick was then, or soon after, at the English court. In May 1208 he was appointed by Edward I captain of his garrison at Berwick, and in November he was made chief commander of the English forces south of the Forth, his jurisdiction extending as far as over Ayrshire. The Earl was still in the English interest in 1300, when King Edward made his march against Carlaverock Castle, and he and his ensigns armorial are duly recorded in the famous metrical account of the siege. In 1305 he was elected one of the Scottish commissioners to the English Parliament, but failed to attend, and Sir John Menteith was, by the King's order, chosen in his stead. In July 1307 Edward I died, but the Earl continued to adhere to his successor, though he did no long survive, as he died on 10 October 1308, aged sixty-six.
  
  This Earl's seal shows on a shield suspended by a guige, a lion rampnat within a bordure charged with eight roses. Legend, 'S Dni Patricii de Dvnbar Com Marc.'
  
  The wife of this Earl is uncertain, as no record or reference to this Countess has been discovered. Sir Robert Douglas, in his 'Peerage,' 1764, states, without giving proof, that he Earl married Marian, daughter of Duncan, tenth Earl of Fife, by whom he had two sons, Patrick and George, the latter being the alleged ancestor of the Dunbars of Cumnock. But this has not been substantiated. According to the later edition of Douglas, this Earl married Marjorie Comyn, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, a statement founded on a letter, in 1400, by George tenth Earl of March, to King Henry IV of England, when the Earl claims that Marjorie Comyn was his 'graunde dame' or great-grandmother, and also states that she was 'full sister' of Alice Comyn, who about 1306, married Sir Henry Beaumont and became great-grandmother of King Henry IV. Wyntoun, in his metrical 'Cronykil,' states that 'the eldest' daughter, whom he does not name, of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan, married a Patrick, Earl of Dunbar; but if she were Marjorie, she must have been the aunt and not the sister of Alice Comyn or Beaumont, and Earl George is so far wrong in this assertion. The eighth Earl is the only Earl Patrick whose date suits with a daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan, as they must have been contemporaries; but if Marjorie Comyn were the wife of the eight Earl, it seems impossible that she could have been the great-grandmother on the father's side of George, tenth Earl of March. It may be assumed, however, that Wyntoun is right, that this Earl Patrick did marry a Comyn, but that Earl George made a mistake as to his relationship to her*. [The Scots Peerage III:262-264]
  
  *Wyntoun was correct - Sir Paul attached Earl George's grandfather Alexander Dunbar to the wrong generation of Patrick Dunbar, putting him one generation earlier.
  
  === History of the Lands and Their Owners in ===
  History of the Lands and Their Owners in Galloway, FHL 941.49 H2m, v 1, 254-55 states: "His [Patrick Dunbar's, 7th earl] son Patrick, eighth earl, succeeded in 1289. He claimed the Scottish throne, as great grandson of Ada, natural daughter of William the Lion. He married Marjory, daughter of Alexander Comyn, Earl of Buchan. His son Patrick, ninth earl of Dunbar and March, succeeded in 1309."

1. Alexander Dunbar of Cockburn, b. 1242 in Dunbar Castle, East Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom     d. 26 JUN 1331 in Cockburn, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

• m. ABT 1270
• m. ABT 1280 in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

1. Margaret Dunbar Of Marche, b. ABT 1280 in Dunbar, Scotland     d. 19 OCT 1393
2. Patrick Dunbar of Cockburn and Stranith, b. 1310 in Cockburn, Berwickshire, Scotland, United Kingdom     d. 1357 in Crete, Greece-enroute to holy land

1. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Earl Patrick Dunbar -
   Author: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Ed {1999}, Page number: 108b-4
   Note: Source Media Type: Book
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741136
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy: PATRICK de Dunbar
   Author: fmg.ac
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#PatrickDunbardied1308;
   Note: PATRICK de Dunbar ([1242]-10 Oct 1308). "Patricius comes de Dunbar" donated "terram in villa…de Laynal" to Coldstream, for the soul of "Cecilie sponse nostre," by undated charter, signed by "Dominis Patricio, Johanne et Alexandro filiis nostris…". "Patrici miles filius et heres dni Patricii comitis de Dunbar et Cecilie filie Johannis" confirmed donations of "ecclesias de Foghou de Home et de Grenelaw" made to the monastery of Kelso by "bone memorie Cospatricii Waldeui Patricii et Patricii avi mei comitu de Dumbar…[et] dns Patricii quondam dns de Dunbar et dns Wills filii eiusdem dns de Grenlawe," by charter dated to [1289]. He succeeded his father in 1289 as Earl of Dunbar. The Inquisitions on the death of "Patricius de Dunbarre" are dated 3 Jan 1290 and name "Patricius filius prædicti Patricii propinquor heres eius" aged 47. He also styled himself Earl of March from Mar 1290. He was a claimant to the throne of Scotland in 1291, second in order on the Great Roll of Scotland, as the descendant of Ada illegitimate daughter of William "the Lion" King of Scotland. He swore fealty to Edward I King of England 25 Mar 1296 and took the English side during the hostilities later that year. He was appointed the king's lieutenant for Scotland in 1298. m (1282 or before) MARJORY Comyn, daughter of ALEXANDER Comyn Earl of Buchan & his wife Elizabeth de Quincy of Winchester. Andrew Wyntoun’s Cronykil records that "Jhon and Alysandyre" had five sisters, the eldest of which married "Erle Patryke" by whom she had "Patryk, that Erle wes efftyr." She was forced to surrender the castle of Dunbar to Edward I King of England 29 Apr 1296. Earl Patrick & his wife had three children: (Patrick, Alexander and George).