17-866: (Redirected from Gospatrick ) Gospatric or Cospatric is a Brittonic name meaning "Devotee of Saint Patrick" and may refer to: People [ edit ] Cospatric or Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria (died after 1073), Earl of Northumbria Gospatricsson, the family name of the Earls of Dunbar Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian (died 1138), Earl of Lothian or Dunbar Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian (died 1166), Earl of Lothian and Dunbar Gospatric (sheriff of Roxburgh) , sheriff in Teviotdale in early 12th century Cospatrick Douglas-Home, 11th Earl of Home (1799–1881), Lord Dunglass, Scottish diplomat and politician Other uses [ edit ] Cospatrick (ship) ,
34-565: 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
51-514: 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
68-700: A wooden sailing ship that caught fire south of the Cape of Good Hope in 1874 with great loss of life Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gospatric . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gospatric&oldid=827746610 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with given-name-holder lists Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description
85-516: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of [Saint] 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 as
102-695: Is named as Maldred , son of Crinan, tein ( thegn Crínán), perhaps the Crínán of Dunkeld who was father of Scottish king Duncan I . Even were thegn Crínán the same as Crínán of Dunkeld, it is not certain Maldred was born to Duncan's mother, Bethóc , daughter of the Scots king Malcolm II . 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
119-564: The Earldom of March , in south-east Scotland until 1435, and the Lordship and Earldom of Home from 1473 until the present day. Symeon of Durham describes Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria, as maternal grandson, through his mother Ealdgyth, of Northumbrian ealdorman Uchtred the Bold and his third wife, Ælfgifu, daughter of King Æthelred II . This follows the ancestry given in the earlier De obsessione Dunelmi , in which Gospatric's father
136-594: The Harrying of the North relates to this period. According to Anglo-Norman chroniclers, in 1072 William the Conqueror stripped Gospatric of his Earldom of Northumbria, and 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
153-635: The Dunkeld's clan to remain loyal to Malcolm II. Together, Bethóc and Crínán had an heir, Donnchad I . Crínán has also been assigned other children, that may have been by Bethóc: Maldred, Lord of Allerdale, married Ealdgyth, daughter of Uhtred the Bold , and ancestor of the Earls of Dunbar ; and a daughter (name not known) mother of Moddan, Earl of Caithness . Their heir Duncan, also known as Donnchad, succeeded his grandfather Malcolm II to become King of Alba in 1034. Bethóc may have had two younger sisters:
170-611: The Merse by King Malcolm III , his cousin. 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
187-637: The Wake and Eadric the Wild , appeared to extend securely across England. 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 until 1072. The widespread destruction in Northumbria known as
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#1732771735670204-484: 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. Neil McGuigan has argued that Waltheof's Norman earldom did not extend beyond the River Tyne , and that Gospatric may have continued to rule the territory to the north from Bamburgh until the late 1070s. Gospatric
221-582: 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. 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
238-565: The same time names three sisters of Waltheof of Allerdale, Gunnilda, Matilla and Ethreda, their husbands, as well as Ethreda's son William Fitz Duncan . Gospatric's children were: Beth%C3%B3c Bethóc ingen Maíl Coluim (also Beatrice ) was the elder daughter of Máel Coluim mac Cináeda , King of Scots , and the mother of his successor, Duncan I . Bethóc was the eldest daughter and heir of Malcolm II of Scotland , who had no known sons. She married Crínán , Abbot of Dunkeld , about 1000. This marriage may have been designed to encourage
255-503: The woman (named by Hector Boece as Donada) who married Findláech mac Ruaidrí , Mormaer of Moray , and was the mother of Macbeth ; and an unnamed woman who according to Orkneyinga Saga married Sigurd Hlodvirsson , Earl of Orkney and was the mother of Thorfinn the Mighty . Early writers have asserted that Máel Coluim also designated Donnchad as his successor under the rules of tanistry because there were other possible claimants to
272-512: Was killed in the autumn by bandits after less than six months as Earl. 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. In early 1068, a series of uprisings in England, along with foreign invasion, faced King William with
289-516: Was the father of three sons, and several daughters. The sons Dolfin, Waltheof and Gospatric are named in De obsessione Dunelmi and by Symeon of Durham , while a document from about 1275 apparently prepared to instruct advocates in a land dispute reports that of these three sons, only Waltheof was born to a legitimate marriage and that he was full sibling of Gospatric's daughter Ethelreda. A second document with some "nearly identical" content prepared about
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