Gospatric | |
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Earl of Northumbria | |
Successor | Robert Comine |
Died | 1073 |
Issue | Dolfin of Carlisle Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian Waltheof of Allerdale Ethelreda |
Father | Maldred |
Mother | Ealdgyth |
Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of [Saint] Patrick"),[citation needed] (died after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria, or of Bernicia, and later lord of sizable estates around Dunbar. His male-line descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar, later known as the Earldom of March, in south-east Scotland until 1435, and the Lordship and Earldom of Home from 1473 until the present day.