William de Dunbar, of Greenlaw

William of Greenlaw who married his cousin Ada of Dunbar who brought with her the lands of Home in Berwickshire which she has received from her first husband, William de Curtenay.

Family

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Ada de Dunbar [m thirdly WILLIAM FitzPatrick "of Greenland"[1592], son of [PATRICK de Dunbar Lord of Greenlaw & his wife ---].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_I,_Earl_of_Dunbar

Patrick I (c.1152[1] – 1232), Earl of Dunbar and lord of Beanley married (1) Ada (died 1200), an illegitimate daughter of King William the Lion, by whom he had four sons and a daughter:

Ada, who married her second cousin Sir William de Greenlaw (son of Sir Patrick de Greenlaw, son of Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian). Her dowry was Home Castle, and Sir William later became known as 'de Home' in her right. The couple were progenitors of the Home family.

The peerage of Scotland: containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, ... collected from the public records, and ancient chartularies of this nation, ... Illustrated with copper-plates. By Robert Douglas, Esq;. Douglas, Robert, Sir, 1694-1770. Link

HOME Earl of HOME

I. PATRICK, second son of Cospatrick, third earl of Dunbar, flourished in the reigns of king William the Lion, and king Alexan∣der II. He died inter 1228 et 1230, and was suc∣ceeded by his son,

II. Sir WILLIAM, who made a donation to the monastery of Coldstream, pro salute a∣nimae suae,*&c. terrar••• de Rhondes et Bread∣po•s, in the shire of Berwick, wherein he is de∣signed 〈◊〉•ilius Patrtcii, &c. to which Thomas de Gordon, Bernard de Frafer, Ed∣ward de vallilus, &c. are witnesses, anno 1230.

He is also particularly mentioned in several other charters,* in the same chartulary, and always under the same designation.

He married 1st, M. comitissa, (but of what family we know not.) This appears from a donation made by Willielmus filius Patricii,*pro salute animae suae, et M. comitissae, 〈◊〉 suae, &c. to•tam illam in Greenlaw, &c. with several other parcels of land in the shire of Berwick. By her he had no issue.

He married, 2dly, his cousin, Ada, daughter of Patrick, fifth earl of Dunbar, who had been formerly married to—Courtenay. By her he got the lands and barony of Home, which had been given to her by her father up∣on her marriage. This is clearly instructed

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by a charter upon a donation made by the said Ada in these words: Ada de Courtenay, fi∣lia Patricii comitis de Dunbar;* sciatis me dedisse, &c. pro salute animae meae, patris et matris meae, et maritorum meorum, &c. mona∣sterio de Kelso, &c. quandam partem terrae de libero maritagio meo, in territorio, deHome, &c. ante 1240.

From the lands and castle of Home this William took his sirname, the family of March having assumed the sirname of Dunbar a few years before. He also carried the armorial bearings of the earls of Dunbar,* which his posterity, the family of Home, have continu∣ed to do ever since, with little variation; all which is fully documented afterwards.

Here we have taken the liberty to differ from former authors, who have deduced the descent of the family of Home from Williel∣mus, filius comitis Patricii, which is certainly a mistake; for that William married Christi∣ana, daughter and heiress of Walter de Cor∣bet of Mackerston, by whom he had two sons, Nicholaus and Patricius de Corbet; and nei∣ther he nor his posterity ever took the name of Home; all which is well vouched, and more fully set forth under the title of Dunbar earl of March, and sufficiently prove, that Wil∣lielmus, filius comitis Patricii, could not be progenitor of the family of Home.

Sir William died before 1266, and was succeeded by his son,

III. Sir WILLIAM HOME,* who, in many authentic writs, is designed dominus de eodem, filius domini Willielmi, militis, &c.

Comments

“The marriage to Ada is nowhere proved and the charter by William of Home in 1268 suggests that she was not his mother.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Home#Origins_of_the_clan

Origins of the clan

The Homes trace their descent in the male-line from Cospatrick I (died after 1074), the Anglo-Danish Earl of Northumbria. His great-great-great-grandson William de Home, a younger son of Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, adopted the surname following his acquisition of the lands of Home and Greenlaw in Berwickshire in the early 13th century.[3] William's arms featured the silver lion of Dunbar but with a green field instead of a red field, in reference to his lands of Greenlaw.[4]

• 4. Nisbet, Alexander (1816). A System of Heraldry. William Blackwood. p. 270.

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Patrick, the second son of the third Earl of Dunbar, inherited from his father the manor of Greenlaw, and having married his cousin Ada, daughter of the fifth Earl by his wife, a natural daughter of William the Lion, obtained with her the lands of Home (pronounced Hume), in Berwickshire, from which the designation of the family was taken. The armorial bearings of his ancestors, the Earls of Dunbar, which were a white lion on a red field, were assumed by him on a green field for a difference, referring to his paternal estate of Greenlaw.

• * Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy: Mar 5 2017, 7:23:43 UTC
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