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Ealdgyth of Northumbria
- Preferred Name: Ealdgyth of Northumbria[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13]
- Gender: F
- FSID: LDMG-1HD
- Birth: 1015 in Northumbria, England at LATI: N4.6325 LONG: E2.3516
- Death: 1086 with note: completely unknown
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Ealdgyth of Northumbria was the daughter of Uchted the Bold, Earl of Northumbria & his 3rd wife Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred the Unready. She was born about 1015 in Northumbria, England. Her parents married about 1014 and her father was killed in 1016, therefore she was born sometime in that period, and was the couples only child. She did have older half-brothers born from her fathers prior marriages.
Ealdgyth married Maldred, Lord of Allerdale about 1036 and they had 3 children:
- Maldred
- a daughter, name unknown ( Ældgytha ? )
- Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland, born about 1040
Ealdgyth's date and place of death are unknown. She is presumed to have died at Dunbar Castle, in Scotland. Her son Gospatric held lands in Northumberland. Bamburgh, Northumberland and Dunbar, Scotland are only about 50 miles apart, therefore, living at either local is believable.
Ealdgyth, of Northumbria
Also Known As: "Algitha of Northumberland", "Edith", "Princess of Northumberland"
Birthdate: circa 1015
Birthplace: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumbria, England (United Kingdom)
Death: circa 1086 (62-79)
Carlisle, Cumberland, England (United Kingdom) (hanged herself)
Immediate Family:
Daughter of Uchtred "the Bold", Earl of Northumbria and Ælfgifu
Wife of Maldred mac Crínán, Earl of Dunbar
Mother of Aeldgytha; Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar; Maldred FitzMaldred; Margaret of Allerdale and Daughter of Scotland
Sister of Ælfthryth
Half sister of Eadwulf; Gospatrick FitzUchtred and Ealdred, Earl of Northumbria & Bernicia
Occupation: Queen of both Wales and England, Princes of Northumberland
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20nobility.htm#EaldgythNorthumbriaMMaldredAllerdale as of 3/11/2016
EALDGYTH [Ælfgifu] (1016 or before-). Simeon of Durham names "Alg
=== AELDGYTH OF Northumbria...not the same as Aeldgyth of Mercia ===
Please do not replace Aeldgyth of Northumbria with Aeldgyth of Mercia. They are 2 different people.
Preferred Parents:
Father: Uhtred of Bamburgh, b. 971 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England. d. 1016 in Wighill, Yorkshire, England
Mother: Ælfgifu of Wessex Lady of Northumbria, b. 990 in Wighill, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom d. 1042 in Lincolnshire, England
Family 1: Maldred, b. 1005 d. 5 APR 1045 in Dunkeld, Perthshire, Scotland
- m. 1036 in Kingdom of Northumbria
- m. 1036
- Gospatric Earl of Northumberland I, b. 1040 d. 15 DEC 1074 in Norham, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom
- Maldred fitzMaldred, b. 1041 in Dunbar, Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom d. ABT 1090 in Winlaton Manor, Durham, England
Sources:
- Title: Maldred, son of Crinan in 'Scots Peerage'
Author: https://www.electricscotland.com/books/pdf/ScotsPeerageVol3.pdf Electric Scotland Scots Peerage Volume 3 Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar Pages 240 - 241
Publication: Name: https://www.electricscotland.com/books/pdf/ScotsPeerageVol3.pdf;
Note: Scots Peerage Volume 3
Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar
Pages 240 - 241
Maldred, of Malcolm, the second son of Crinan, is believed to have become King of the Cumbrians when his elder brother succeeded as King of Scots. There is no direct proof of this, and Fordun states that Cumbria was in 1034 bestowed on Malcolm, afterwards Malcolm III, son of Duncan I. But he was only a child at that date, and it is more probable it was his uncle, the older Malcolm, who was made ruler of Cumbria. Certainly he is found closely linked to that district, which then included Strathclyde as well as Cumberland, by marriage relations and other ties. A recently discovered writ by his son Gospatric, to be referred to later, suggests that he may have possessed in his own right the Allerdale district of Cumberland. Little is known of Maldred's history, and his career was probably cut short in the same battle as that in which his father was slain, in 1045. He married Ealdgiith of Algitha, daughter of Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland, by his wife AElgifu or Elgiva, daughter of AEthelred II, King of England. They had issue:
1. Gospatric, Earl of Northumberland and first Earl of Dunbar, of whom hereafter.
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.
An Ulkil, son of Maldred, appears as a witness to charters by Cospatric, brother of Dolphin, before 1138. They may have been cousins.
- Title: MALDRED, son of CRINAN "the Thane" - Foundation for Medieval Genealogy-Cawley, C. (2006). Maldred -Scottish Nobility
Author: Earls of Dunbar - starts with Maldred and continues through lineage
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[1394]. 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"[1395], 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[1396].
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[1397]. 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[1398]. 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[1399].
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[1400]. The Obituary in the Liber Vitæ of Durham records the death "VIII Id Nov" of "Uhtredus filius Maldredi"[1401]. m ---. The name of Uhtred’s wife is not known. Uhtred & his wife had [two] children:
i) [1402]DOLFIN . The Prior of Durham granted him Staindrop (in which Raby is a township) in 1131[1403]. m ---. The name of Dolfin’s wife is not known. Dolfin & his wife had one child:
(a) [1404]MALDRED . m ---. The name of Maldred’s wife is not known. Maldred & his wife had one child:
(1) [1405]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[1406]. 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[1407].] 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[1408].
- Title: The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham By Simeon (of Durham)
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historicalworks00simegoog/page/n360/mode/1up?q=Ucthred;
Note: page 766
"Afterwards, when Ucthred had made additional progress in military affairs, king Ethelred gave him his own daughter Elfgiva in marriage; by whom he had Algitha, whome her father wedded to Maldred, the son of Crinan the thane; by whom Maldred became the father of Cospatric, who begat Dolphin, and Waltheof, and Cospatric."
Page: Algitha (alternate spelling of Ealdgyth) identified as the daughter of Ucthred and his 3rd wife Elfgiva, daughter of King Ethelred Married Maldred, the son of Crinan the thane; and they became the parents of Cospatric, who begat Dolphin, and Waltheof, and Cospatric.
- Title: Burke's Peerage
Author: Charles Mosley, Editor: "Burke's Peerage, Baronetage, And Knightage" (106th Edition), Routledge, Abingdon, 1999 ISBN-10: 1579580831, ,ISBN-13: 978-1579580834
- Title: SIMEON'S ACCOUNT OF THE SIEGE OF DURHAM in THE CHURCH HISTORIANS OF ENGLAND, 1855
Author: The historical works of Simeon of Durham Volume 3, Part 2 of Church historians of England: Pre-Reformation series Author: Simeon (of Durham) Translated by: Joseph Stevenson Publisher: Seeleys, 1855 Original from: Columbia University Digitized: Feb 9, 2010 Length: 367 pages Accessed by: Google Ebooks
Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=2_NLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false;
Note: p 765 "About the valiant exploits of Earl Uchthred, and of the Earls who succeeded him"
OF NOTE: Simeon was the Monk and Precentor of the Church of St Cuthbert, of Durham.
Also available: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001399782
Page: Vol III, Part II, pp 564-565 Describes her marriage to Ligulf, their children, his holdings, her relation to the Earl Waltheof, their son's devotion to a monastery, and Ligulf's murder by the Bishop of Durham's jealous chaplain and relation. p 767 "Earl Aldred was the father of five daughters, three of whom bore the same name, Aelfleda; the fourth was called Aldgitha, and the fifth Etheldritha."
- Title: De Obsessione Dunhelmi (On the Siege of Durham)
Author: Manuscript 139; Corpus Christi College, Cambridge;1161-1167.
- Title: Find a Grave: Ealdgyth Of Northumbria Of Allerdale
Publication: Name: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/169168018/ealdgyth-of_allerdale;
Note: Born about 1015, she wed the Cumberland leader named Maldred, sometimes referred to as Lord of Allerdale and Carlisle. (He was to be slain in battle around 1045, attempting to avenge infamous murder by MacBeth.) Ealdgyth (or Edith) is the mother of Gospatric I, Earl of Northumbria (#94763780.) She is the 29X great-grandmother of Lady Diana:
(possible father) Maldred,
Lord of Carlisle & Allerdale=
Ealdgyth of Northumbria
Gospatric I, Earl of Northumbria=unknown
Gospatrick II, Earl of Lothian=unknown
Juliana de Dunbar=Ralph de Merlay
Roger de Merlay=Alice de Stuteville
Agnes de Merlay=Richard Gobion
Hugh Gobion=Matilda
Joan Gobion=John de Morteyn
Sir John de Morteyn=Joan de Rothwell
Lucy de Morteyn=Sir John Giffard
Sir Thomas Giffard=Elizabeth de Missenden
Roger Giffard=Isabel Stretle
Thomas Giffard=Eleanor Vaux
John Giffard=Agnes Winslow
Thomas Giffard=Joan Langston
Amy Giffard=Richard Samwell
Susanna Samwell=Peter Edwards
Edward Edwards=Ursula Coles
Margaret Edwards=Henry Freeman
Alice Freeman=John Thompson
Dorothy Thompson=Thomas Parke
Dorothy Parke=Joseph Morgan
Margaret Morgan=Ebenezer Hibbard
Keziah Hibbard=Caleb Bishop
Lucy Bishop=Deacon Benajah Strong
Dr. Joseph Strong=Rebecca Young
Eleanor Strong=John Wood
Ellen Wood=Franklin H. Work
Frances Eleanor Work=
James Boothby Burke Roche
Edmund Maurice Burke Roche=Ruth Sylvia Gill
Frances Ruth Burke Roche=
Edward John Spencer
Lady Diana=Charles, Prince of Wales
Source: F.L. Weis, (line 34 in) Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists . . . (2004)
Family Members
Parents
Uchtred Of Northumbria
unknown–1016
Princess Aelfgifu of Wessex Of Northumbria
- Title: Crínán (or Crónán) Abbot of Dunkeld (Dún Caillen) - The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England
Publication: Name: https://fasg.org/projects/henryproject/data/crina000.htm;
Note: Crínán (or Crónán)
Abbot of Dunkeld (Dún Caillen), d. 1045.
Crínán was killed in 1045 in a battle among the Scots, probably related to the battle five years earlier which had resulted in the death of Crínán's son Duncan I, king of Scotland, at the hands of Macbeth (ruled 1040-1057).
Date of Birth: Unknown.
Place of Birth: Unknown.
Date of Death: 1045.
["Cath etir Albancho ar aen-rían cur' marbad and Crínan ab Duín Calland & sochaidhe maille fris .i. nae .xx. laech." AT s.a. 1045; "Cath eter Albanchu fein i torchair Cronan, ab Duine Caillen." AU s.a. 1045; "Cath etir Albanchaib etorra pfein, a torchair Cronán, ab Dúin cuillend." ALC s.a. 1045]
Place of Death: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
See the Commentary section.
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Bethóc, daughter of Máel Coluim (Malcolm) II, king of Scotland.
Child:
See the page of Duncan I.
MALE Donnchad mac Crínáin (Duncan I), d. 14×15 August 1040, king of Scotland;
m. Suthen.
Probable child:
Son of a Crinán (the same one?)
MALE Maldred, ancestor of the earls of Dunbar;
m. Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred, earl of Northumbria.
Maldred is given as a son of a Crinán in three of the works of Simeon of Durham, with Crínán given the title of "thane" (tein) in one of these works. Maldred married Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred, earl of Northumbria, by whom he Dolphin, Waltheof, and Cospatric (ancestor of the House of Dunbar) ["Postea vero illo, scilicet Ucthredo, proficiente magis et magis in re militari, rex Ethelredus filiam suam Elfgivam ei copulavit uxorem. Ex qua habuit filiam Aldgitham, quam pater in conjugium dedit Maldredo filio Crinan tein, ex qua Maldredus Cospatricum, patrem Dolphini et Walteofi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Obsessione Dunelmi, c. 2 (1: 216); "... Cospatricus, filius Maldredi filii Crinani ... Erat enim ex matre Algitha, filia Uchtredi comitis, quam habuit ex Algiva filia Agelredi Regis. Hanc Algitham pater dedit in conjugium Maldredo filio Crinani." Sim. Durh., Historia Regum, c. 159 (2: 199); "Deinde Uctredus filius Walthefi administravit comitatum omnium Northanhymbrorum provinciarum. Huic rex Eathelredus suam filiam Ælfgeovam dederat uxorem. Ex qua filiam habens Aldgitham, dedit in conjugium prædiviti cuidam, Maldredo filio Crinani: de qua habuit Cospatricum comitem, patrem Dolphini, Walthefi, et Cospatrici." Sim. Durh., De Primo Saxonum Adventu (2: 383)]. Anderson states that Maldred appears to have ruled in Cumbria [ESSH 1: 577], but there does not seem to be a clear source for that statement [however, see ESSH 2: 37 for the possible Cumbrian origin of Maldred's son Cospatric I]. No primary source explicitly identifies the Crínán who was Maldred's father with the Crínán who was Duncan's father.
Commentary
Supposed father (chronologically doubtful):
Donnchad (Duncan), d. 965, abbot of Dunkeld.
Since the abbacy of Dunkeld may have been hereditary in Crínán's family (his grandson Æthelred held the title), it has sometimes been suggested that Crínán was possibly the son of this earlier abbot of Dunkeld whose death is known from both the Irish and Scottish sources [e.g., AU; ESSH 1: 471, 473, 577; KKES 252]. While the relationship is not impossible, the chronology is very long (if true, Crinán would be eighty at his death in battle even if born in the year of his father's death), and there is no known evidence to support it. The alleged relationship cannot be accepted without further evidence.
Bibliography
ALC = W. M. Hennessy, ed. & trans., Annals of Loch Cé (Rolls Series 54, London, 1871).
AT = Whitley Stokes, ed. & trans., "The Annals of Tigernach", Revue Celtique 16 (1895), 374-419; 17 (1896), 6-33, 116-263, 337-420; 18 (1897), 9-59, 150-303, 374-91.
AU = Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill, The Annals of Ulster (Dublin, 1983).
ESSH = Alan Orr Anderson, Early Sources of Scottish History, 2 vols. (Edinburgh, 1922, reprinted Stamford, 1990). [Contains English translations of many of the primary records]
KKES = Marjorie Ogilvy Anderson, Kings and Kingship in Early Scotland (Edinburgh, Totowa, NJ, 1973).
Sim. Durh. = Thomas Arnold, ed., Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, 2 vols. (Rolls Series 75, 1882-5).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 5 August 2001.
Revision uploaded 20 June 2010 (added quotes from Simeon of Durham).
Page: Identifies Ealdgyth, as the daughter of Uhtred earl of Northumbria and Algiva, daughter of King Aethelred Identifies her as the wife of Maldred, ancestor of the earls of Dunbar, who ruled in Cumbria. Were the parents of: Dolphin, Waltheof, and Cospatric (ancestor of the House of Dunbar)
- Title: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
Author: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p163.htm#i4880;
Note: Father Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland b. 989, d. 2 Dec 1016
Mother Elgiva of England b. c 997
Ealdgyth of Northumberland was born circa 1015 at of Northumberland, England. She married Maldred FitzCrinan, son of Crinan, Lay Abbot of Dunkeld, Lord of the Isles, Governor of the Scots Island, Earl of Strathclyde, Hereditary Abbot of Dunkel, Mormaer of of Athole, Abthane of Dule and Bethoc of Scotland, between 1030 and 1040.
Family
Maldred FitzCrinan d. 1045
Children
Cospatrick, Earl Dunbar & Northumberland, Lord of Carlisle & Allendale+ b. c 1040, d. c 1075
Maldred, Baron Winlaton b. c 1045, d. 1100
- Title: Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - son of Eadgyth
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospatric,_Earl_of_Northumbria;
Note: Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of Saint Patrick"),[citation needed] (died after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria, or of Bernicia, and later lord of sizable estates around Dunbar. While his paternal ancestry is uncertain, his descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar, later known as the Earldom of March, in south-east Scotland until 1435.
Background
Gospatric was a great-grandson of Æthelred II through his mother, Ealdgyth, and his maternal grandmother, Ælfgifu, who had married Uchtred the Bold.[1][2]
Issue about paternal lineage
He is often said to have been a son of Maldred son of Crínán of Dunkeld.[3] It has been suggested that Maldred might not be the son of Crínán's known wife Bethóc, daughter of the Scots king Malcolm II, as Gospatric's descendants made no such claim when they submitted their pleadings in the Great Cause, however his direct descendant, Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar, did indeed make a claim to the throne during these pleadings) to determine the succession to the kingship of the Scots after the death of Alexander III in 1286.[4]
Alternatively, rather than being descended from a half-brother of King Duncan I (Donnchad mac Crínáin), Gospatric may have been the youngest son of Earl Uhtred the Bold (died 1016). Another reconstruction would make Gospatric the grandson of Uhtred's discarded first wife, Ecgfritha, daughter of Aldhun, Bishop of Durham, through Sigrida, her daughter with Kilvert, son of Ligulf.[5] Whatever his parentage may have been, Gospatric was clearly an important figure in Northumbria and Cumbria, with ties to the family of Earl Uchtred.
The Life of Edward the Confessor, commissioned by Queen Edith, contains an account of the pilgrimage to Rome of Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria. It tells how a band of robbers attacked Tostig's party in Italy, seeking to kidnap the Earl. A certain Gospatric "was believed because of the luxury of his clothes and his physical appearance, which was indeed distinguished" to be Earl Tostig, and succeeded in deceiving the would-be kidnappers as to his identity until the real Earl was safely away from the scene. Whether this was the same Gospatric, or a kinsman of the same name, is unclear, but it is suggested that his presence in Tostig's party was as a hostage as much as a guest.[6]
Harrying of the North
After his victory over Harold Godwinson at Hastings, William of Normandy appointed a certain Copsi or Copsig, a supporter of the late Earl Tostig, who had been exiled with his master in 1065, as Earl of Bernicia in the spring of 1067. Copsi was dead within five weeks, killed by Oswulf, grandson of Uchtred, who installed himself as Earl. Oswulf was killed in the autumn by bandits after less than six months as Earl.[7] At this point, Gospatric, who had a plausible claim to the Earldom given the likelihood that he was related to Oswulf and Uchtred, offered King William a large amount of money to be given the Earldom of Bernicia. The King, who was in the process of raising heavy taxes, accepted.[8]
In early 1068, a series of uprisings in England, along with foreign invasion, faced King William with a dire threat. Gospatric is found among the leaders of the uprising, along with Edgar Ætheling and Edwin, Earl of Mercia and his brother Morcar. This uprising soon collapsed, and William proceeded to dispossess many of the northern landowners and grant the lands to Norman incomers. For Gospatric, this meant the loss of his earldom to Robert Comine and exile in Scotland. King William's authority, apart from minor local troubles such as Hereward the Wake and Eadric the Wild, appeared to extend securely across England.[9]
Gospatric joined the invading army of Danes, Scots, and Englishmen under Edgar the Aetheling in the next year. Though the army was defeated, he afterwards was able, from his possession of Bamburgh castle, to make terms with the conqueror, who left him undisturbed till 1072. The widespread destruction in Northumbria known as the Harrying of the North relates to this period.
Exile
In 1072 William the Conqueror stripped Gospatric of his Earldom of Northumbria,[10] and he replaced him with Siward's son Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton.
Gospatric fled into exile in Scotland and not long afterwards went to Flanders. When he returned to Scotland he was granted the castle at "Dunbar and lands adjacent to it" and in the Merse by King Malcolm Canmore.[11] This earldom without a name in the Scots-controlled northern part of Bernicia would later become the Earldom of Dunbar.
Gospatric did not long survive in exile according to Roger of Hoveden's chronicle:
[N]ot long after this, being reduced to extreme infirmity, he sent for Aldwin and Turgot, the monks, who at this time were living at Meilros, in poverty and contrite in spirit for the sake of Christ, and ended his life with a full confession of his sins, and great lamentations and penitence, at Ubbanford, which is also called Northam, and was buried in the porch of the church there.
He was the father of three sons,[10] and at least one daughter named Uchtreda, who married Duncan II of Scotland, the son of King Malcolm Canmore.
The sons were:,[10]
Gospatric who was killed at the battle of the Standard in 1138.
Dolfin, who seems to have received from Malcolm the government of Carlisle. Dolfin has also been identified with Dolfin de Bradeley and is believed to be the progenitor of the Bradley, Staveley, De Hebden, and Thoresby families.
Waltheof, Lord of Allerdale and Abbot of Crowland
Page: Gospatric was a great-grandson of Æthelred II through his mother, Ealdgyth, and his maternal grandmother, Ælfgifu, who had married Uchtred the Bold.[1][2] Issue about paternal lineage He is often said to have been a son of Maldred son of Crínán of Dunkeld.[3] It has been suggested that Maldred might not be the son of Crínán's known wife Bethóc, daughter of the Scots king Malcolm II, as Gospatric's descendants made no such claim when they submitted their pleadings in the Great Cause, however his direct descendant, Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar, did indeed make a claim to the throne during these pleadings) to determine the succession to the kingship of the Scots after the death of Alexander III in 1286
- Title: General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire 42nd Edition 1880
Author: Previous title: General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire
Publication: Name: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081907481&view=1up&seq=378&skin=2021;
Note: 42 Edition (1880), Part 2 (L-Z), p 1084 (Scarbrough: Lineage)
https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081907481?urlappend=%3Bseq=378
The surname of this family was assumed from Lumley on the Weare, in the bishopric of Durham, and the family deduces its lineage from
Liulph (son of Osbert de Lumley), who m. Algetha, dau of Alfred, Earl of Northumberland, by Edgina, dau of Etheldred II. This Liulph, who was a nobleman of great popularity in the time of the Confessor, was murdered by means of Leoferiso, chaplain to Walcher, bishop of Durham; a crime soon after avenged by the populace of Durham, who sacrificed both the chaplain and the prelate to their just resentment ...
Page: Vol 42, Part 2 (L-Z), p 1084 (Scarbrough: Lineage) https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081907481?urlappend=%3Bseq=378
- 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-
Author: 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- Pg 14
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/stream/historyofnorthum07nort#page/14/mode/2up;
- Title: The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham (London) (“Simeon of Durham”), p. 558.; Stevenson, J. (trans.) (1855)
Author: Stevenson, J. (trans.) (1855) The Historical Works of Simeon of Durham (London) (“Simeon of Durham”), p. 558.
Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/historicalworks00simegoog/page/n151/mode/1up;
Note: Page 558
"At his death (Osulf), Cospatric the son of Maldred, the son of Crinan, going to king William, obtained the earldom of the Northumbrians, which he purchased for a great sum; for the dignity of that earldom belonged to him by his mother's blood. His mother was Algitha the daughter of earl Uchtred, whom he had of Algiva, daughter of king Agelred. This Algitha her father gave in marriage to Maldred the son of Crinan. He then held the earldom, until the king, for the causes above named, took it from him."
The historical works of Simeon of Durham, tr., with preface and notes, by J. Stevenson : Simeon : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Page: Identifies her as Algitha, daughter of Uchtred and Algiva, daughter of king Agelred (AEthelred) wife of Maldred, brother of Duncan I, son of Crinan mother of Cospatric (Gospatric) Eaarl of Northumbria
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