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Birth:          1213 
Death:          24 Aug 1289 Whittingham, East Lothian, Scotland
Burial:         North Aisle, Dunbar Church, Dunbar, Haddington, Scotland

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Patrick III, 7th Earl of Dunbar[1] (c. 1213 – 24 August 1289) was lord of the feudal 
barony of Dunbar and its castle, which dominated East Lothian, and the most 
important military personage in the Scottish Borders.
Background[edit]

Said to be aged 35 in 1248,[2] he was the son of Patrick II, Earl of Dunbar (by 
Eupheme de Brus), who was son of Patrick I, Earl of Dunbar, who was son of 
Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar, who was descendant in male line of Gospatric, Earl of 
Northumbria. His successors controlled the marches, but the title Earl of March was 
only assumed by Patrick IV, Earl of March.

Career[edit]

Patrick did homage for his lands in England to King Henry III in 1249. The earl was 
part of the English faction who opposed the Comyns and in 1255 he and others 
procured the dismissal of the Comyns and their faction from power. The same year he 
was nominated Regent and Guardian of the King and Queen. In 1258 the Comyn's 
faction prevailed, and Earl Patrick was excluded from the government.[2]

In 1263 he founded a monastery for the Carmelites or White Friars in Dunbar; and led 
the left division of the Scottish army at the battle of Largs the same year. In 1266 
when Magnus V of Norway ceded the Isle of Man and the Hebrides to King Alexander 
III of Scotland, the Earl of Dunbar's seal appears on the treaty, signed in Norway in 
1266.

Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, was second in the list of thirteen earls who signed the 
marriage contract of Princess Margaret of Scotland and King Eric of Norway in 1281. 
In 1284 he attended the parliament at Scone which declared the Princess Margaret of 
Norway to be heiress to the Scottish Crown.[3]

He died at Whittingehame, and was buried at Dunbar, East Lothian.[2]

Marriage[edit]

He married firstly, before 1240, Cecily, daughter of John FitzRobert, Lord of 
Warkworth, Northumberland (died 1240),[2][4]

He married secondly Christiana,[5][6][7] daughter of Robert de Brus, 5th Lord of 
Annandale, the 'Competitor' (1210–1295),[8] and had five known children:
Patrick IV, Earl of March, a 'Competitor'[9] (1242–1308), son and heir.
Sir John de Dunbar, Knt.[10]
Sir Alexander de Dunbar, Knt.[11]
Agnes de Dunbar, who married Christell de Seton, 'in Jedburgh Forrest' (died c. 1300)
[12]
Cecily (or Cecilia) de Dunbar, who married Sir James Stewart, 5th High Steward of 
Scotland.[13][14]

Although some sources show Christiana de Brus as Patrick's wife and the mother of 
his children, other sources are in disagreement with this. According to The Scots 
Peerage, 'Cecilia filia Johannis' was his only recorded wife and mother of his sons, 
based on a charter by her eldest son.[15] The Complete Peerage shows 'Cecil, da. of 
John' as his wife and states that Christian Bruce was erroneously assigned as his wife 
in Wood's Douglas.[16]

Parents
OF DUNBAR Patrick (ABT 1182 - AFT May 1248)
DE BRUS Eupheme (ABT 1177 - ABT 1267)

Siblings
OF DUNBAR Patrick (1213 - 24 Aug 1289)

Marriage To FITZ JOHN Cecilia (ABT 1218 - )
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ ROBERT [CLAVERING] John (ABT 1200 - 1240)
DE BALLIOL Ada (ABT 1204 - 29 Jul 1251)

Children by FITZ JOHN Cecilia ABT 1218 - 
OF DUNBAR Agnes Amicia (ABT 1248 - AFT 7 Apr 1299)

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