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DUNBAR 505 later (under the style of Gospatricus,frater Dolfini), to the Inrjuisitio Davidis.(^) He appears to have held the position of an Earl, though there is no record of the title of the Earldom, nor is he ever called Earl in any known document in his lifetime. In a charter, confirmed 16 Aug. 1 139 (after his death), to the monks of Durham, C") he is styled "Gospatricus Comes,(f) frater Dolfini," being, in the heading thereof, called " Gospatricus secundus{^) Comes frater Dolfini." This Earl is doubtless the summus dux Lodonensium (the leader of the men of Lothian) slain at the battle of the Standard 22 Aug. ii38,() fighting against the English at Cowton Moor, near Northallerton. II. 1 138. 2. GosPATRic DE Dunbar, Earl [S.], s. and h., who, as " Gospatricus Comes, witnesses a charter of 1 140. He was founder of the Cistercian nunneries at Coldstream and Eccles, co. Berwick. He m. Derdere. He d. 1 1 66. III. 1 1 66. 3. Waltheof de Dunbar, Earl [S.], s. and h. In 1 166, as Waldeve the Earl, he granted a charter to the monks of Durham. He was, 1 175, one of the hostages for the release of William I [S.] from imprisonment. He m. Aline, who d. 20 Aug. 1179. He^. 1 1 82. IV. 1 1 82. 4. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], s. and h., b. 11 52, being the first of his race who assumed (from his Castle of Dunbar) the territorial style of Earl of T) unbar Justi- ciary of Lothian and Keeper of Berwick. He is called by Fordun "Comes Lodensis," Earl of Lothian. He attended William the Lion to Lincoln, in 1200, to do homage for his lands in England, as also Alexander II to York, in June 1221, on the occasion of that King's marriage with the Princess Joan, sister of Henry III. He founded a monastery of the Red Friars, at Dunbar, in 12 18. He w., istly, in 11 84, Ada, illegit. da. of W^illiam the Lion afsd. She d. 1200. He ;«., 2ndly, before 4 Dec. 12 14, Christine, widow of William Bruce, of Annandale. He d. 31 Dec. 1232, having recently become a monk, and was bur. at Eccles, aged 80. (») "From this period till the rise of the [house of] Douglas under Bruce, the heads of this princely house held the foremost rank [though, perhaps, not far ahead of that of the house of Comyn] in Scotland. After that era their vacillating policy [perhaps partly owing to their English possessions which compelled them to do homage to the King of that hostile dominion] hastened their downfall." See articles in iV. and Q. mentioned ante, p. 503, note "b." (*■) Raine's North Durham. (<=) Scriptures decern (1652), p. 1027; also Lappenberg's England under the Normans, 1867, p. 386. C) Here is a valid recognition (if such heading is that of the original document) of the second Gospatric having been an Earl, and also, if the word secundus is to be taken with Comes (instead of with Gospatricus), of his having been the second Earl, and, consequently, of his father having been the first Earl. 64