Edgar ‘the Dauntless’ of Dunbar

Edgar of Dunbar was son of Gospatrick, who was son of Gospatrick, who was son of Maldred Earl of Allerdale and his wife Eadgyth of Northumbria.

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#Gospartrick...

As son of Gospatrick Earl of Dunbar:

EDGAR . A charter of Henry I King of England confirms that he arranged the marriage of “Ranulpho de Merlay” and “Julianam filiam comitis Cospatricii”, that she was granted “Horsley, Stanton, Witton, Ritton, Wyndgates” as her dower, and that they later founded Newminster Abbey, witnessed by “Patricio filio…Johanne Peverell de Baalcampo” and confirmed by “Edgarus filius Cospatricii comitis”[446].

m ALICE, daughter of IVO FitzForne of Greystoke, Cumberland & his wife Agnes ---. Her parentage and marriage are confirmed by the charter dated to [1150/62] under which “Walterus filius Yvonis” confirmed the grant of property to “Edgaro filio Cospatrici comitis cum Aliz sorore mea” made by “pater meus Yvo et Agnes mater mea” for their marriage[447]. They were ancestors of the Kilstern family[448].

From The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, p. 248: <Archive.Org>

“The date of his death has not been ascertained. He married Aliz, daughter of Ivo, son of Forne, and with her obtained ten manors, five of which were in Northumberland, in Ooquetdale, and the others situated in Yorkshire, Westmoreland, and Cumberland.”

Children of Edgar of Dunbar and Alice de Greystoke:

1. Agnes of Dunbar. Married Anselm le Fleming. [Not in TSP]
2. Alexander, who died without issue.
3. Patrick, who succeeded his father Edgar in the lands of Caistron. He or his descendants took the name of Caistron or Kestern, the last owner of the lands, John of Kestern, parting with them to the Abbey of Newminster about 1247, or a little lafer.3

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Notes

The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 74

Amongst the unpublished documents at Rydal Hall is a charter of circa 1180, by which Edgar (of Dunbar) and his wife Alice, daughter of Ivo de Greystoke, settled upon Agnes their daughter, in free marriage with Anselm, son of Michael de Furness, half their land of "Euenwit (Yanwath), Westmorland (Rydal MSS.). By an earlier charter of 1156-62, Walter, son of Ivo de Greystoke confirmed to Alice his sister on her marriage to Edgar son of Earl Gospatric, "Euenwit" and "Chonoc Salchild" (Knock Salcock), co. WEstmorland, as well as oher property in Cumberland, Durham and Yorkshire [Newminster Chartulary, Surtees Soc. p. 117]. Alice was the sister of Walter and daughter of Ivo, lords of Greystoke in Cumberland; while her husband, Edgar, was the son of Gospatric II, Earl of Dunbar in Scotland, the great-great-nephew of the "gracious" King Duncan of Shakespeare's Macbeth.

References

• http://cybergata.com/roots/3940.htm
• 160. Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 41:24, <GoogleBooks> wife of Edgar of Dungar, daughter of Ivo Fitz Forne, Lord of Greystoke.
• 910. The Early History of the Stricklands of Sizergh, p. 74
• https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#EdgarMAlic...
• Paul, Sir James Balfour, ed. (1904) The Scots Peerage, Vol. III, p. 248 "Dunbar, Earl of Dunbar". <Archive.Org>
• https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getpe... cites
• Stirnet Genealogy, Peter Barns-Graham, Dunbar01