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DONBAR. granted hiui the forfeited estates of the Lord Bardolf, he having assisted at Hie battles of Homeldou Hill, 11 Sep. 1102, and of Shrewsbury, 23 My 1403. After the death of Robert III [S.], in 1406, he treated with the Regent Albany [S.] for restoration to Scotland. This, however, was not effected without his resigning, to the all powerful Earl of Douglas, the Lordship of Aunaudale, the Castle of Lochmabcn, &c by charter 2 Oct. 1 409 . Iu 1 111 he was one of the Commissioners for a truce with England. He m. Christian, da. of Alan dk SbTON (formerly Wintoun), by Margaret, da. and h. of Sir Alex. Setctx, of Seton. He rf. about 1410 or [1420], aged about SO. XI. 1416 1 11. Geokge (Dunbar), Earl of March, or Dun- to bab. [S.]. ». audh., 6. about 13T0, being about 50 in 1120. He, who 1435. was Knighted at the coronation of King James I [S.], consented in 1409 (with his father) to the alienation of the Lordship of Annnndale to the Earl of Douglas. He was employed in negotiating the freedom of James I [S.], whom he met at Durham, in 1424, on his return to Scotland. He was arrested with the Duke of Albany [S.] but sat on his trial in May 1425 ; was in frequent embassies to England, and was, in 1430, one of the Sponsors to Prince James, afterwards James II [S.] In 1434, however, the King, on the pretence of his holding an Earldom and estates which bad been forfeited by his father's treason, whose pardon being by a Jtcgent only (not an actual King) was alleged to be invalid, seized his lauds, had the case referred to Pari., by which it was declared at Perth, 10 Jan. 1434/5, that tho Earldom and estates were forfeited {'). The Earl fled to England, retaining only the Barony of Kilconquhar, co. Fife, held from the Archbishop of St. Andrews. He m. Beatrice. On 7 Aug. 1421 he had lie. to marry Alicia, da. of Sir William Hay, of Yester, but it is uncertain if this marriage ever tuok place. He was living in 1454 but died in 1457, having since 9 April 1449 (when he was styled " Comes Marehiarum et Dominus de Kilconquhar") an annuity of 400 marks out of the revenues of the Earldom. [Patrick Dunbar, of Kilconquhar, co. Fife, s. and h., who, even after his father's attainder, was styled "Master ok the Match, " m. Isabel (living 1452), and was living 1457. He was father of another Patrick, who m. before 1471, Janet, da. and coheir of Patrick Dunuah, of Mochrum, co. Wigton (descended from David Dunbar, probably a yr. br. of George, the 10th Earl), by whom half of the Mochrum estate came into the family. These were great great grand-parents of Patrick Dunbar, of Kilconquhar (whose father, grandfather and great grandfather, all named Patrick, were of the same), who m. in 1520, and who was sue. by his only s., Andrew Dunbar, of Kilconquhar and Loch of Mochrum. This Andrew Dunbar, who is said, by Riddell, to have been "indisputably the representative" of the Earls of March, d. s.p., Nov. 1564, leaving four sisters of whom Elizabeth d. unm. 1569. Among the descendants of the other three such representation still remains.( b )] Barony [S.] Robert (Stuaet), Earl of Lennox [8.1, was, on I 1580 resigning that Earldom, er., 5 March 1579/80, EAUL OF MARCH to ' and LORD OF DUNBAU [S.],(=) which creation was confirmed by 158(! royal cuarter > 5 Oct. 1582. He d. s.p., 29 March 1586, when all his honours became extinct. See fuller particulars under " Mabcii," Earldom of [S.], a: 1580 ; ex. 1586. (") There can be no doubt that the conduct of these Earls — " as pre-eminent in their power, as precarious in their loyalty " — had made the King resolve to compass their annihilation. James I. [S.] had, indeed, small scruple in doing this, and other acts of a like nature, and paid the penalty thereof in being, but two years later (1437) murdered for his unjust seizure of the Earldom of Strathern [S.] from the right heir. (fc) The second of these three Bisters, Margaret, m. William Macdowall whose descendant and heir of line, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Patrick (Crichton, formerly Macdowall), Earl of Dumfries [S.], m. 1792, John Stuart, styled Viscount Mount- Btuart, ancestor of the Marquesses of Iiute, but whether or no any issue remains from the eldest da., who of course, ns heir of line, would inherit in preference to the issue of Margaret is doubtful. See sis to tho family of Macdowall p. 195, note "a. (<=) It iB very probable that a (peerage) BARONY OF DUNBAR [S.j was conferred