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Malded FitzMaldred
- Preferred Name: Malded FitzMaldred[1] [2] [3] [4]
- Gender: F
- Death: ABT 1099 in Scotland, United Kingdom at LATI: N6.8167 LONG: E4.184
- Birth: ABT 1040 in Dunbar, Haddingtonshire, Scotland at LATI: N5.9797 LONG: E2.5244
- Burial: in St. Margaret Churchyard, Durham, Northumberland, England
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Mrs.
- FSID: K2X8-8LT
- Notes:
Wife of Maldred fitz Maldred, sources report her name is not known.
Family 1: Maldred fitzMaldred, b. 1041 in Dunbar, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom d. ABT 1090 in Winlaton Manor, Durham, England
- Uchtred Dunbar Lord of Raby, b. ABT 1075 in Raby Castle, Durham, England d. ABT 1129 in Raby, Durham, England
Sources:
- Title: Copy of Maldred son of Maldred in 'MALDRED, son of CRINAN "the Thane" ' -Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#Maldreddied1045B;
Note: MALDRED, son of CRINAN "the Thane" Mormaer of Atholl [Scotland] & his wife Bethoc of Scotland Lady of Atholl (-killed in battle [1045]). He is named son of Crinan by Roger of Hoveden[1401]. Lord of Allerdale. Regent of Strathclyde 1034/35.
m ([before 1040]) EALDGYTH [Ælfgifu], daughter and heiress of UHTRED Earl of Northumbria & his third wife Ælfgifu of England (1016 or before-). Simeon of Durham names "Algiva daughter of earl Uchtred [and] of Algiva daughter of king Agelred" when recording that her father arranged her marriage to "Maldred the son of Crinan"[1402], although her father was long since dead when she married. Named daughter of Uhtred and Elgiva by Roger of Hoveden, who also names her husband and his father[1403].
Lord Maldred & his wife had two children:
1. GOSPATRICK ([1040/48]-[1075]). Simeon of Durham names "Cospatric son of Maldred son of Crinan" when recording that he was appointed Earl of Northumberland[1404]. Earl of Northumberland from Dec 1067.
- see below.
2. MALDRED . Balfour Paul names "Maldred" as second son of Maldred but does not cite the corresponding primary source[1405]. The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. m ---. The name of Maldred’s wife is not known. Maldred & his wife had two children:
a) ROBERT . The History of Richard Prior of Hexham records the devastations of "Eadgarus filius nothus Cospatrici comitis et Robertus et Uctred filii Meldred, principales ac duces" in Northumbria, dated to the 1130s from the context[1406].
b) UHTRED (-6 Nov ----). The History of Richard Prior of Hexham records the devastations of "Eadgarus filius nothus Cospatrici comitis et Robertus et Uctred filii Meldred, principales ac duces" in Northumbria, dated to the 1130s from the context[1407]. The Obituary in the Liber Vitæ of Durham records the death "VIII Id Nov" of "Uhtredus filius Maldredi"[1408]. m ---. The name of Uhtred’s wife is not known. Uhtred & his wife had [two] children:
i) [1409]DOLFIN . The Prior of Durham granted him Staindrop (in which Raby is a township) in 1131[1410]. m ---. The name of Dolfin’s wife is not known. Dolfin & his wife had one child:
(a) [1411]MALDRED . m ---. The name of Maldred’s wife is not known. Maldred & his wife had one child:
(1) [1412]ROBERT FitzMaldred (-[25 Jun 1242/26 May 1248]). Lord of Raby and Brancepeth, co. Durham. m as her first husband, ISABEL de Neville, daughter of GEOFFREY de Neville & his wife Emma de Bulmer (-before May 1254). "Robert fitz Maldred, who has to wife Isabella, sister and heiress of…Henry de Neville" paid homage to the king "for the lands formerly of Henry de Neville", dated to [Mar] 1227[1413]. She married secondly Gilbert de Brakenberg. Robert & his wife had one child:
a. GEOFFREY FitzRobert (-1242). He assumed the name Neville after his mother's family.
- LORDS NEVILLE.
ii) [GOSPATRICK . "…Cospatric filius Uctred…" witnessed inquisitions by "David…Cumbrensis regionis princeps", dated 1124, concerning land owned by the church of Glasgow[1414].] m ---. The name of Gospatrick’s wife is not known. Gospatrick & his wife had one child:
(a) GODEREDA (-after 1129). The 1130 Pipe Roll records "Godereda filia Gospat’c fil Aldreti" in Yorkshire, Northumberland[1415].
Page: States "The name of Maldred’s wife is not known. Maldred & his wife had two children: Robert and Uhtred"
- Title: "A history of Northumberland. issued under the direction of the Northumberland county history committee...."
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum07nort#page/14/mode/2up;
Note: Full Title:
"A history of Northumberland. issued under the direction of the Northumberland county history committee
by Northumberland county history committee; Bateson, Edward; Hinds, A. B. (Allen Banks), 1870-; Hodgson, John Crawford; Craster, Herbert Henry Edmund, Sir, 1879-1959; Vickers, Kenneth Hotham, 1881-; Dodds, Madeleine Hope; Hodgson, John, 1779-1845.
Publication date 1893
Publisher Newcastle-upon-Tyne : A. Reid, sons & co.; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & co., limited
- Title: Copy of Copy of Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy By Alison Weir
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=7nZ90l1_IzAC&q=Strathclyde#v=snippet&q=Strathclyde&f=false;
Note: Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy By Alison Weir pages 178-180
Malcom II
Father: Kenneth II
Mother: Princess of Leinster
Born in c.954. In his youth, he was styled Prince of Cumbria. He succeeded his cousin Malcolm, son of King Duff, as King of Strathclyde in c.990/1, and ruled Strathclyde until 995, when he was deposed. He was restored in 997, and succeeded Kenneth III as King of Scotland on 25 March, 1005. In c 1016, he became King of Lothian, thus becoming the first effective ruler of the whole of Scotland. There is no record of his coronation. Malcolm II died on 25 November, 1034 at Glamis Castle, Angus, mortally wounded by his kinsmen, and was buried on the Isle of Iona. He was the last sovereign of the House of MacAlpine. He was succeeded by his grandson Duncan.
Malcolm II married a lady whose name is not recorded, said to have been an Irishwoman from Ossory, and had issue:
1) Bethoc
2) Donada (?) - she has also been described as the daughter of Kenneth II
3) Daughter (name not known) - This may have been the daughter married to Sigurd, arl of Orkney, in c1005/8; some sources identify her with Donada.
BETHOC, daughter of Malcolm II - Known as the Lady of Atholl, she married Crinan the Thane, Mormaer of Atholl, Abthane of Dule, Steward of the Western Isles, and Lay Abbot of Dunkeld (c975-killed 1045 in battle against Macbeth), son of Duncan, Mormaer of Atholl. The marriage took place before 1008, perhaps in 1100, and they had issue, throughwhom they were founders of the Royal House of Dunkeld:
i) Duncan I
ii) Maldred
iii) Daughter (name not known) - She married a man about whom no information exits, and had issue:
Moddan, Earl of Caithness (killed 1040)
iv) Daughter (name not known) - Nothing is known about her
MALDRED, son of Bethoc - He was created Lord of Allerdale, and was appointed Regent of the Kingdom of Strathclyde in 1034. He was probably killed in battle in 1045.
Maldred married (no record exists of the date or the place): Edith She was the daughter of Uchtred, Earl of Northumbria, by Elgiva, daughter of Aethelred II, King of England. Issue of marriage:
a) Gospatrick
b) Maldred
GOSPATRIC, son of Maldred - He was born in c1040. He was created Earl of Northumbria before 1071, possibly in 1068, but was deprived of this earldom in 1072, when he was created Earl of Dunbar. He died on 15 December, but the year is unspecified, at Ubbanford (modern Norham), Scotland, and was buried in Norham Church; however, another tradition states that he became a monk at Durham Cathedral, where he died and was buried. Gospatric married an unknown lady, and had issue:
1) Dolfin, Earl of Cumberland (d after 1092) he married an unknown lady and had issue.
2) Waltheof, 1st Baron of Allerdale, Abbot of Crowland (d1138?) he married a lady called Sigrid, and had issue.
3) Gospatric, 2nd Earl of Dunbar (killed at the Battle of the Standard, 1138) he married an unknown lady and had issue.
4) Octreda; she married Waldeve, son of Gillemin.
5) Gunhilda; she married Orm, son of Ketil.
6) Matilda; she married Dolfon, son of Aylward.
7) Ethelreda; she married Duncan II.
MALDRED, son of Maldred - He married a lady about whom no information exists, and had issue:
1) Robert
2) Uhtred
3) Ulkil (?)
Page: Identifies the wife of Maldred as unknown "MALDRED, son of Maldred - He married a lady about whom no information exists, and had issue: Robert, Uhtred, Ulkil (?)"
- Title: Copy of Maldred in "DUNBAR, EARL OF DUNBAR" The Scots Peerage, Volume III pages 240-241
Author: Electric Scotland https://www.electricscotland.com/books/pdf/ScotsPeerageVol3.pdf ALSO https://archive.org/details/scotspeerage-v3/page/239/mode/1up At Internet Archive The Scots Peerage, Volume III DUNBAR, EARL OF DUNBAR pages 240-241
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/scotspeerage-v3/page/239/mode/1up;
Note: The Scots Peerage, Volume III
DUNBAR, EARL OF DUNBAR
pages 240-241
Crinan the Thane, married Bethoc (or Beatrice), daughter and heir of Malcolm II, King of Scots.
Issue:
1. Duncan the First, succeeded Malcolm II
2. Maldred or Malcolm, more hereafter
3. ___, a daughter mother of Moddan Earl of Caithness, slain in 1040 at Thurso.
Maldred, or Malcolm, second son of Crinian, king of the Cumbrians. Died in the same battle as his father in 1045. Married Ealdgith or Algitha, daughter of Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland, by his wife Ælfgifu or Elgiva, Daughter of Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred II, King of England. They had Issue:
1. Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland, first Earl of Dunbar.
2. Maldred, who is claimed as the ancestor of Robert Fitz Maldred, Lord of Raby in Durham, and through him of the Nevills, Earls of Westmoreland and Warwick, and other families of that name. He had apparently two sons, Robert and Uchtred.
Page: Identifies 2 sons of Maldred (son of Maldred): Robert and Uchtred, does NOT IDENTIFY THE NAME OF THEIR MOTHER.
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