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Waltheof "Waldeve, of Allerdale, 1st Baron of Allerdale" Dunbar
(Abt 1062 - 1138)
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[[Category: 11th Century]]
[[Category: 12th Century]]
== Biography ==
Legitimate son of [[Dunbar-27|Gospatric Dunbar]].
Abbot 1125-1138 at Crowland.Waltheof (Waldeve) of Dunbar was the first Lord of Allerdale.John Burke, ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (London: Henry Colburn, 1833), p. 577-580, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=-P4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA577. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 September 2015).
the birth and death dates are not a pure guess, they are imprecise over a couple years, just as they are for the parents and most of the 11th century aristocracy. However the generation and place in timeline has considerable citation support. Death location of Dunbar, East Lothian, (as of Mar 2017) doesn't seem the most probably considering his position in Allerdale and perhaps as abbot at Crowland. I judge that to be uncertain.
He was very generous in donating significant holdings to his sisters, [[Dunbar-160|Gunnilda]]. [[Dunbar-49|Ethelreda]], and [[Northumbria-16|Matilda/Maud of Northumbria]]. His son Alan was also noted for generous gifts. Waltheof son of Gospatric, positioned the Dunbar Clan for stability and power in their region with the marriage of his daughter [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda Dunbar]] to [[Galloway-18|Uchtred of Galloway]], who not only had his father's titled lands, but also was a grandson of King Henry (proposed but definitely not proven, because of illegitimacy).
Gunnilda's descendants were Roland; then [[Galloway-1427|Allan FitzRoland of Galloway]] who was a MC Advisor, married to niece of King William; earliest generations of the emerging nobility in northern families. See descendant notes below.
===Conclusions about sons of Gospatrick===This is a case where Cawley Medlands source isn't acceptably developed. McGuigan is clear on the conclusions, and is intently focused on historic sources, '''for this region in this era''''.
McGuigan, provides a clear interpretation of the political events and the significant stature of Gospatric's family, particularly in Allerdale. McGuigan, N. (2015). Neither Scotland nor England: Middle Britain, c.850-1150; 377p, University of St Andrews, [https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/7829/NeilMcGuiganPhDThesis.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y McGuigan Thesis 2015]:"The identity of Gospatric in the writ may be open to debate because no patronymic is given, but geography and chronology point overwhelmingly to Gospatric son of Maldred, who fathered Dolfin, Waltheof, and a younger Gospatric. The first, his eldest son, appears to have ruled in Carlisle when he was expelled by William Rufus in 1092. We also know that Allerdale, the territory specific to Gospatric’s Writ, was controlled by Gospatric's second son Waltheof in the early twelfth century.":Allerdale was a vast property, that took its name from the valley of the River Ellen. Because Waltheof would have been legitimate and the eldest, this is very persuasive that Gospatric would have been former holder of Allerdale, in addition to his other wider holdings and responsibilities. :"Gospatric’s Writ demonstrates that it was under Northumbrian dominion (Britons) in the mid eleventh century. That the region ‘was formerly Cumbrian’, is explained easily by the dominant ethnicity of the region’s population, or by a collective identity among Northumbrian Britons.....British simply survived in western Northumbria."
Cawley version is jumbled, and defaults to a 1275 memo that other historians see as less compelling. Medlands judgement concludes:"It seems more likely that Gospatrick was his father’s oldest legitimate son as his father’s title was transmitted to his descendants.���But this comes after reciting several other findings “Simeon of Durham names "Dolfin, Walther and Cospatric" as the sons of Gospatrick[1407]. A memorandum dated to [1275] records that "Earl Cospatryk formerly earl of Dunbar in Scotland had a brother Dolfin earl of Northumbarland…both…bastards", that they had "a legitimate brother Waldeve and a legitimate sister Etheldreda…of one father and one mother"”Contradictory-Not persuasive that Gospatric was the older, nor that Waltheof was illegitimate.
multiple other sources indicate that Gospatric's son Waltheof Cokayne, G.E. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant'', Vol.4. p503-506,(London, 1910). [https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo04coka#page/504/mode/2up Cokayne Completer Peerage of England]was legitimate and older than Gospatric II.
=== Family ===Waltheof or Waldeve had a wife Sigridhttp://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#PatrickDunbardied1232B who out-ived him. She remarried [[Fitz_Gilbert-14|Roger fitz Gilbert]], brother of [[Lancaster-222 |William de Lancaster I]].[https://archive.org/stream/registerofpriory126stbe Register of St Bees]
Their children were:
: son: Alan:daughter: Athelreda/Ethelreda m RANULF de Lindsay, m 2nd WILLIAM de Eseby:daughter: [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda of Allerdale]], m [[Galloway-18|Uchtred of Galloway]]
:illegitimate son: Gospatric
===Dunbar Descendants===House of Dunbar descendants from Waltheof's daughter [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda]] appear as possibly the most influential Dunbar contributions. Over the next 2 centuries they were antecedents of leaders, nobility and knights of Galloway, Balliol, Comyn, MacDougal, Neville. Percy. Zouche. Ferrers. Berkeley, Clavering; married into the families of MC Barons Lacy, Quincy and Bigod; and the family of the Kings of Scotland.
Waltheof's sister [[Dunbar-49|Ethelreda Dunbar]] was married to [[Dunkeld-47|King Duncan II]], and was the ancestor of Ranulf Moray, the Lords of the Isles, and the Clans which grew out of the Isles. Ethelreda's great great grandson William Forz, through her son William Earl of Moray, was a Magna Carta Surety. and his daughter, Aveline married the 2nd son of Henry III 'Plantagenet' King of England. In addition to Plantagenet the Scottish ancestry of Ethelreda and Duncan II, through marriages was combined with other Norman aristocratic families such as Moreville, Stuteville, Lucy, Fleming, and Multon.
House of Dunbar descendants were also quite prominent from Waltheof's sister [[Dunbar-160|Gunnilda]] either as ancestors of the successful ancient families of Curwen, Radcliffe, Fleming, Boteler, Harrington, or descendants of ancient Norman influenced, Lancaster of Kendal, Engaine, Normandie, Stuteville, and , all of which rose out of the same Allerdale, Kendal, Cumberland region. They were respected as regional aristocracy, MPs, knights, regional officials such as Sheriffs of Cumberland, and provided significant stability on the Western Marches.
Finally from descendants of Waltheof's bother Gospatric II, and the nephew, [[Dunbar-755|Gospatrick III]], arose the Dunbar name through Earls of Dunbar, and prominent families of Stewart, Carrick, Bruce, Neville, and Earls of Angus.
== Sources ==
See also:*Lundy, D.[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10768.htm#i107672 The Peerage-107672], Maldred is father of Gospatric. Waltheof is 2nd son of Gospatric, and has younger brother Gospatric II. citations from: Alison Weir,'' Britain's Royal Families''; Charles and Hugh Brogan Mosley, American Presidential Families * Cawley, C. (2006). "Scotland, mormaers, earls, lords." Medieval Lands v.3. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#PatrickDunbardied1232B fmg.ac]
* [[Wikipedia: Waltheof of Allerdale]]
[[Category: 11th Century]]
[[Category: 12th Century]]
== Biography ==
Legitimate son of [[Dunbar-27|Gospatric Dunbar]].
Abbot 1125-1138 at Crowland.Waltheof (Waldeve) of Dunbar was the first Lord of Allerdale.John Burke, ''A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland'' (London: Henry Colburn, 1833), p. 577-580, digital images, https://books.google.com/books?id=-P4UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA577. Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 4 September 2015).
the birth and death dates are not a pure guess, they are imprecise over a couple years, just as they are for the parents and most of the 11th century aristocracy. However the generation and place in timeline has considerable citation support. Death location of Dunbar, East Lothian, (as of Mar 2017) doesn't seem the most probably considering his position in Allerdale and perhaps as abbot at Crowland. I judge that to be uncertain.
He was very generous in donating significant holdings to his sisters, [[Dunbar-160|Gunnilda]]. [[Dunbar-49|Ethelreda]], and [[Northumbria-16|Matilda/Maud of Northumbria]]. His son Alan was also noted for generous gifts. Waltheof son of Gospatric, positioned the Dunbar Clan for stability and power in their region with the marriage of his daughter [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda Dunbar]] to [[Galloway-18|Uchtred of Galloway]], who not only had his father's titled lands, but also was a grandson of King Henry (proposed but definitely not proven, because of illegitimacy).
Gunnilda's descendants were Roland; then [[Galloway-1427|Allan FitzRoland of Galloway]] who was a MC Advisor, married to niece of King William; earliest generations of the emerging nobility in northern families. See descendant notes below.
===Conclusions about sons of Gospatrick===This is a case where Cawley Medlands source isn't acceptably developed. McGuigan is clear on the conclusions, and is intently focused on historic sources, '''for this region in this era''''.
McGuigan, provides a clear interpretation of the political events and the significant stature of Gospatric's family, particularly in Allerdale. McGuigan, N. (2015). Neither Scotland nor England: Middle Britain, c.850-1150; 377p, University of St Andrews, [https://research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10023/7829/NeilMcGuiganPhDThesis.pdf?sequence=6&isAllowed=y McGuigan Thesis 2015]:"The identity of Gospatric in the writ may be open to debate because no patronymic is given, but geography and chronology point overwhelmingly to Gospatric son of Maldred, who fathered Dolfin, Waltheof, and a younger Gospatric. The first, his eldest son, appears to have ruled in Carlisle when he was expelled by William Rufus in 1092. We also know that Allerdale, the territory specific to Gospatric’s Writ, was controlled by Gospatric's second son Waltheof in the early twelfth century.":Allerdale was a vast property, that took its name from the valley of the River Ellen. Because Waltheof would have been legitimate and the eldest, this is very persuasive that Gospatric would have been former holder of Allerdale, in addition to his other wider holdings and responsibilities. :"Gospatric’s Writ demonstrates that it was under Northumbrian dominion (Britons) in the mid eleventh century. That the region ‘was formerly Cumbrian’, is explained easily by the dominant ethnicity of the region’s population, or by a collective identity among Northumbrian Britons.....British simply survived in western Northumbria."
Cawley version is jumbled, and defaults to a 1275 memo that other historians see as less compelling. Medlands judgement concludes:"It seems more likely that Gospatrick was his father’s oldest legitimate son as his father’s title was transmitted to his descendants.���But this comes after reciting several other findings “Simeon of Durham names "Dolfin, Walther and Cospatric" as the sons of Gospatrick[1407]. A memorandum dated to [1275] records that "Earl Cospatryk formerly earl of Dunbar in Scotland had a brother Dolfin earl of Northumbarland…both…bastards", that they had "a legitimate brother Waldeve and a legitimate sister Etheldreda…of one father and one mother"”Contradictory-Not persuasive that Gospatric was the older, nor that Waltheof was illegitimate.
multiple other sources indicate that Gospatric's son Waltheof Cokayne, G.E. ''The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant'', Vol.4. p503-506,(London, 1910). [https://archive.org/stream/completepeerageo04coka#page/504/mode/2up Cokayne Completer Peerage of England]was legitimate and older than Gospatric II.
=== Family ===Waltheof or Waldeve had a wife Sigridhttp://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#PatrickDunbardied1232B who out-ived him. She remarried [[Fitz_Gilbert-14|Roger fitz Gilbert]], brother of [[Lancaster-222 |William de Lancaster I]].[https://archive.org/stream/registerofpriory126stbe Register of St Bees]
Their children were:
: son: Alan:daughter: Athelreda/Ethelreda m RANULF de Lindsay, m 2nd WILLIAM de Eseby:daughter: [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda of Allerdale]], m [[Galloway-18|Uchtred of Galloway]]
:illegitimate son: Gospatric
===Dunbar Descendants===House of Dunbar descendants from Waltheof's daughter [[Dunbar-25|Gunnilda]] appear as possibly the most influential Dunbar contributions. Over the next 2 centuries they were antecedents of leaders, nobility and knights of Galloway, Balliol, Comyn, MacDougal, Neville. Percy. Zouche. Ferrers. Berkeley, Clavering; married into the families of MC Barons Lacy, Quincy and Bigod; and the family of the Kings of Scotland.
Waltheof's sister [[Dunbar-49|Ethelreda Dunbar]] was married to [[Dunkeld-47|King Duncan II]], and was the ancestor of Ranulf Moray, the Lords of the Isles, and the Clans which grew out of the Isles. Ethelreda's great great grandson William Forz, through her son William Earl of Moray, was a Magna Carta Surety. and his daughter, Aveline married the 2nd son of Henry III 'Plantagenet' King of England. In addition to Plantagenet the Scottish ancestry of Ethelreda and Duncan II, through marriages was combined with other Norman aristocratic families such as Moreville, Stuteville, Lucy, Fleming, and Multon.
House of Dunbar descendants were also quite prominent from Waltheof's sister [[Dunbar-160|Gunnilda]] either as ancestors of the successful ancient families of Curwen, Radcliffe, Fleming, Boteler, Harrington, or descendants of ancient Norman influenced, Lancaster of Kendal, Engaine, Normandie, Stuteville, and , all of which rose out of the same Allerdale, Kendal, Cumberland region. They were respected as regional aristocracy, MPs, knights, regional officials such as Sheriffs of Cumberland, and provided significant stability on the Western Marches.
Finally from descendants of Waltheof's bother Gospatric II, and the nephew, [[Dunbar-755|Gospatrick III]], arose the Dunbar name through Earls of Dunbar, and prominent families of Stewart, Carrick, Bruce, Neville, and Earls of Angus.
== Sources ==
See also:*Lundy, D.[http://www.thepeerage.com/p10768.htm#i107672 The Peerage-107672], Maldred is father of Gospatric. Waltheof is 2nd son of Gospatric, and has younger brother Gospatric II. citations from: Alison Weir,'' Britain's Royal Families''; Charles and Hugh Brogan Mosley, American Presidential Families * Cawley, C. (2006). "Scotland, mormaers, earls, lords." Medieval Lands v.3. [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SCOTTISH%20NOBILITY.htm#PatrickDunbardied1232B fmg.ac]
* [[Wikipedia: Waltheof of Allerdale]]
Events
| Birth | Abt 1062 | Cumbria | |||
| Death | 1138 | Dunbar, East Lothian, Scotland | |||
| Marriage | Sigrid Unknown | ||||
| Reference No | 1196718 | ||||
| Reference No | |||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Sigrid Unknown (1070 - 1126) |
| Child | Gunnild Dunbar (1134 - 1166) |
| Father | Gospatric Dunbar (1040 - 1074) |
| Mother | Aethelreda Wessex (1042 - 1075) |
| Sibling | Gospatric "II Earl of Lothian brother of Dolphin" Dunbar (1062 - 1138) |