2499920896. Gospatrick I , Earl of Dunbar & March, Earl of Northumbria, Lord of Bamburgh
"Gospatric, or Gwas Patrick, meaning servant of Patrick, was allied to noble lineage on both sides of the house, uniting the Celtic descent of his father, Maldred, with the royal stock of Wessex, from which his mother came. He was made Earl of Northumberland by William the Conqueror, but later William accused him of an alliance with the Danes and deprived him of the earldom. Gospatric fied to the court of the King of Scotland, Malcolm III, who made him Earl of Dunbar. He had two sons, Dolfin and Waldene, who took the name of Dunbar, and another son, Gospatric, 2nd Earl of Dunbar."
[Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, 897]"Gospatric, only son and heir, obtained the Earldom of Northumberland. He was unable to endure the austerity of the King's power and fled to Scotland, taking with him the young Edgar Atheling (Atheling meant prince). Agatha, his mother, and her two daughters, Margaret and Christian, where Margaret married the Scottish King, Malcolm Conmore. (These were the last of the Saxon Royal line.) Gospatric was kindly received by King Malcolm, who gave him lands and the Manor of Dunbar in East Lothian and several Baronies in Berwickshire. His future conduct and behavior showed that King Malcolm's favours were not misplaced, for he served him faithfully and contributed greatly to establish peace and order in the kingdom. He had Dolphin, Waltheof, Uchtred, Juliana and Etheldreda, who married Duncan, natural son of King Malcolm."
[Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, 832]"Hutchinson's history of the County of Cumberland, England, and Camden's Britannia, are the sources of the information concerning this family. They state that John de Talbois, (who was brother of Fulk, Earl of Anjou, and King of Jerusalem, (in the crusades,) married Elgiva, daughter of the Saxon King, Ethelred, who reigned A.D. 866-871. John de Talbois was the first lord of the barony of Kendall, to which position his son Elred or Ethelred succeeded. Elred's son, Ketel, granted the church of Morland to the abbey of St. Mary, York, to which grant Christiana, his wife, was a witness. Ketel's eldest son was Gilbert, father of William de Lancaster, (who had a son of the same name,) from whom descended in a direct line the de Lancasters, barons of Kendall. Ketel's second son was William, and the third, Ormus or Orm. The latter married Gumilda, daughter of Gospatric, Earl of Dunbar and Northumberland. (Camden's Brit. iii. 423.) She was also sister of Waldieve, first lord of Allerdale.
Now, William the Conquerer had infeoffed Ranulphus de Meschines with the county of Cumberland, and Ranulphus infeoffed Waldieve in the barony of Allerdale. William, a brother of Ranulph, whom the king had made lord of Coupland, also infeoffed Waldieve, in the land between Cocar and Darwent, and in the townships of Brigham, Elysfield, Dene, Brainthwaite, Grisothen, the two Cliftons, and Staneburne. Ranulph also inherited the earldom of Chester, by the death of his brother Galfridus, on which he surrendered Cumberland back to the king, on condition that his tenants in fee should hold their land of the king in capite.Waldieve now infeoffed Orm, when he married his sister Gumilda, in the manor of Seaton below Darwent, parcel of the barony of Allerdale, as also the towns of Camberton, Crayksothen, and Flemingby; and thereupon Orm was settled at Seaton. (Camden's Brit. iii. 9.)
The walls and ruins of the mansion-house of Seaton, Mr. Denton states to have been visible yet in his time.
Orm was succeeded by his second son, Gospatric, (named after his maternal grandfather,) to whom Allan, son of Waldieve, second lord of Allerdale, and his cousin-german, gave High Ireby, which remained vested in a younger branch of the Curwens, and which terminated in female heirs. This Gospatric was the first of the family, who was lord of Workington, having exchanged with his cousin, William de Lancaster, the lordship of Middleton, in Westmoreland, for the lands ofLamplugh and Workington. In this bargain, de Lancaster retained for himself and heirs an annual rent charge of sixpence, to be paid at the fair of Carlisle, or a pair of gilt spurs, binding Gospatric and his heirs to homage, and to discharge his foreign service, as of the castle and barony of Egremont.
Gospatric gave two parts of the fishery in Derwent to the abbey of Holm Cultram, except Waytcroft, which he gave to the priory of Carlisle; which was granted over by the priory to Thomas, son of Gospatric, upon a reserved rent of 7s."
[Corwin Genealogy, 249]
"Cospatrick I. born about 1000 A. D., and died in 1081; fought at Hastings on side of Harold; fled into Scotland; secured lands of Hume and Barony of Dunbar with Earldom of Northumberland in right of his mother. It was his grandson, Cospatrick III, who went on a crusade and died in Egypt, who aided Edward in his conquest of Scotland and is mentioned by Jane Porter in "Scottish Chiefs," as Earl of March.Cospatrick I. who in right of his mother became Earl of Northumberland and who had distinguished himself fighting on the side of the Saxons at the ill-fated field of Hastings, fled into Scotland with Edgar the Atheling, the rightful heir to the English throne, and his two sisters, Margret (the St. Margret of the Roman Church) who married King Malcolm III. (Canmore), King of Scotland, and Christina, Abbess of Welton. In Scotland, Cospatrick as a reward for his valor at Hastings had conferred on him the Earldom of Dunbar to which was the Baronage of Hume not then a family name, from him descended the present Hume family of Scotland, England, India, Australia, Cape Colony, and America."
[History of the Hume Family , 9]
2499921398. Hakon (Akaris) Paulsson , Earl of Ornkey
Akaris, or Akary fil Bardolf, Lord of Ravenswath, first son of Bardolf, was born at Ravenswath about AD 1080.
"AKARIS was the pious founder of Jourvaulx, a famous Abbey of the Cisterian order in this northern track. In 5 Stephen (1139), Akaris founded also an Abbey at Tors, in Wensley-dale in Com. Ebor, then called the `Abbey of Charity.' He departed this life 7 Henry 11 (1161). He gave three carucates of land in Warton, and one carucate and a half at Tors to the Abbey, where he was buried, leaving nine sons."
[The Pedigree and History of the Washington Family, xiii]
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