Patrick Dunbar, 6th Earl of Dunbar

Patrick Dunbar, 6th Earl of Dunbar (also Patrick (III) Dunbar ) (* around 1213 ; † August 24, 1289 ) was a Scottish magnate .

origin

Patrick Dunbar was the eldest son of his father of the same name, Patrick Dunbar, 5th Earl of Dunbar and his wife Euphemia Fitzalan . He was descended in a direct line from Gospatric , the first Earl of Northumbria, whose successor ruled under the title Earl of Lothian, before Patrick's great-grandfather Waltheof finally used the title Earl of Dunbar . After his father's death during a crusade in 1248 , he inherited his possessions and the title of Earl of Dunbar.

Activity as military and magnate

During the minority of the Scottish King Alexander III. supported Dunbar in 1255 Alan Durward , when he with the support of the English King Henry III. overthrew the Regency Council dominated by Walter Comyn, Earl of Menteith . In the same year Patrick was appointed Guardian of Scotland together with Alan Durward and Alexander Stewart and took over the reign. 1257 the Comyns were able to bring the king back into their power, whereupon they reached a compromise with the Durwards over the reign. As a result, Dunbar lost influence and was no longer a member of the Regency Council.

In 1263, in the war with Norway at the Battle of Largs , Dunbar commanded the left wing of the Scottish army in battle against a Norwegian army under King Håkon IV. Although he was wounded in the battle, Dunbar then moved to western Scotland, around the islands off the coast to subjugate. Dunbar attested numerous documents from Alexander III., Among other things 1281 the marriage contract of his daughter Margaret with the Scottish King Erik II. However, he did not hold any office during the reign of the king. The most important event during his career was the alleged visit of Thomas Erceldoune to Dunbar Castle , where he met the tragic death of Alexander III. should have prophesied. After the death of Alexander III. In 1286, Dunbar swore to recognize his granddaughter Margarete , the daughter of Margaret and Erik II, as the heir to the Scottish throne. Nevertheless, Dunbar attended the meeting convened by Robert de Brus , who was believed to be his father-in-law, at Turnberry , after which he supported Brus' claim to the throne.

Marriage and inheritance

The identity of Dunbar's wife cannot be precisely established. Allegedly, Dunbar had married Christian Bruce , a daughter of Robert de Brus, according to other sources a Cecilia . His son Patrick became his heir . In 1263 he founded a Carmelite monastery in Dunbar .

literature

• Bernard Burke: A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. Harrison, London 1866 ( online edition ).
• Fiona Watson: Dunbar, Patrick, sixth earl of Dunbar (c. 1213–1289). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

Web links

• Patrick de Dunbar, 6th Earl of Dunbar on thepeerage.com , accessed July 26, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alan Young: The political role of Walter Comyn, earl of Menteith during the minority of Alexander III of Scotland . In: KJ Stringer (Ed.): Essays on the nobility of medieval Scotland . Donald, Edinburgh 1985, 140.
2. ^ Archibald AM Duncan: Scotland. The Making of the Kingdom (The Edinburgh History of Scotland; Vol. I ). Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh 1975. ISBN 0-05-00203-7-4 , p. 573.
3. ^ Alan Young: Noble Families and Political Factions in the Reign of Alexander III . In: Norman H. Reid (ed.): Scotland in the Reign of Alexander III, 1249-1286 . Edinburgh, John Donald 1990, ISBN 0-85976-218-1 , p. 11.

predecessor	Office	successor
Patrick Dunbar	Earl of Dunbar 1248-1289	Patrick Dunbar
Alexander Comyn , Walter Comyn , John de Balliol , Uilleam, 5th Earl of Mar , Gamelin	Guardian of Scotland 1255–1257 Co-regents: Alan Durward , Alexander Stewart	no direct successor