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198 DUNBAR. V. 11S2. 5. Patrick (db Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], being the first of his race who assumed (from his Castle of Dunbar) the territorial style of Earl of Dunbar, s. and h., Justiciary of Lothian and Keeper of Berwick. Ho attended King William the Lion [S.] to Lincoln, in 1200, to do homage for his lands in England, as ;dso King Alexander II [S.] to York, in June 1221, on occasion of that King's marriage with the Princess Joan, sister to Henry III. He founded a monastery of the Red Friars, at Dunbar, in 1218. He m. firstly, in 1184, Ada, illegit. da. of King William, the Lion [S.] afsd. She d. 1200. He lit, secondly before 4 Dec. 1214, Christina, widow of William do Buvck, of Annandale. He d. 31 Dec. 1232, having recently become a monk, and was bur. at Eccles. VI. 1232. G. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], s.and h. by first wife. He was in command of the army sent in 1235 against the Bastard o£ Galloway, whom he subdued ; was guarantee of a treaty with England in 1237, and again in 1244. He joined the Crusade under Louis IX, King of France. He m., iu or before 1213, Euphemia, da. of Walter (Fitzalan alias Stewakd) Loud High Steward [S.] He d. 124S, at Marseilles. His wife survived him. VII. 1248. 7. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], s. and b., aged 35, when served heir to bis father's lands in England, 13 Dec. 1248. He was one of the English faction in 1255, iu which year he rescued King Alexander III [S.] from the power of the Comyu family, and was nom., in Sep. 1255, Rf.gent [S.] and Guardiau of the King and Queen. He was iu command against the Norwegians, at Largs, in 1263 ; was a signatory to the treaty, 6 July 1200, for the cession of the Hebrides and the Isle of Mau to Scotland ; as also to the marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland with Eric of Norway, 25 July 1231 ; and again in Feb. 1284, to the succession of the "Maiden of Norway" to the throne of Scotland. He m., 1242, Cecilia,^) da. of John. He d. at Whittingham, 24 Aug. 1289, aged 70, and was bur. at Dunbar. VIII. 12S9. 8. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [8.], who first of his race, is called Eaiil ok March [S.],( b ) s. and h., aged 47 in 1289. He was one of the Competitors for the Crown of Scotland, making formal claim thereto, 3 Aug. 1291, at Merwick iu right of his great grandmother, the Countess Ada, [illegit.] da. of King William [S.j as aboveaamed. This claim, however, he soon withdrew, swearing fealty to King Edward I, on 13 June 1291, and taking the English side when hostilities began in 1296. In 1298 ho was the King's Lieutenant for Scotland, and in 1300 was with his son Patrick, at the siege of Carlaverock (°). Ho m., circa 1282, before 1285, Marjory, da. of Alexander (Cumyn), Eaivl of Buchan [S], Elizabeth, da. and coheir of Roger (de Qutnci), Eakl of Winchester. This Lady is said to have taken the opposite side from her husband, and to have held the Castle of Dunbar for the Scots till forced, 29 April 1296, to surrender it to Edward I. He d. 10 Oct. 1308, aged 66. IX. 1308. 9. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of March, or Dunbar [S.J b. 1284 ; was with his father in 1300 (when but 16) at Carla- ( a ) See chartulary of Coldstream, Nos. 1 and 9 and chartulary of Kelso, Nos. 77 and 81. She is conjectured to have been an heiress of the family of Fraser, in conse- quence of which alliance this Earl (4 Nov. 1261) bore (being the first of hit race who did so) the roses (of the house of Fraser) in a bordure round the lion rampant of Dunbar. Christian Bruce (sister of Robert Bruce, tho competitor, 1291-92, for the throne of Scotland) is the wife assigned to him in Wood's "Douglas," but erroneously. Ex inform A. H. Dunbar. ( b ) i.t., of the Scotch Marches or border lands. The J/erse, or March, was part of the lands iu Berwickshire, granted in 1072, by Malcolm III [S.J to Earl Gospatric. It was not till the pari, at Brigham, in March 1290, that the Earl of Dunbar appears to have assumed the designation of Earl of March [Comes de ifarchia], since which period those 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 H24. ( c ) Hn is there called " Conic de Laonois ; " Laonia, or Lothian, being that country south of the Forth, which is not comprehended in Galloway and Stvathclyde. The Karl was also styled " Conte de la Marche D'Ecosse."