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 5o6 DUNBAR V. 1232. 5. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], s. and h. by ist wife. He had an order for seisin of his lands 22 Feb. 1232/3. He was in command of the army sent in 1235 against the Bastard of Galloway, whom he subdued; was guarantor of a treaty with England in 1237, and again in 1244. He started for the Crusade under Louis IX, King of France, in Nov. 1247. He w., in or before 12 13, Eupheme, da. of Walter Fitzalan, otherwise Steward, Lord High Steward [S.]. He d. between May and Dec. 1248, at Marseilles. His widow, who lived at Whittingham in East Lothian, d. probably about 1267. VI. 1248. 6. Patrick, (de Dunbar), Earl of Dunbar [S.], s. and h., aged t,S when served h. to his father's lands in England, 13 Dec. 1248. He was one of the English faction in 1255, in which year he rescued Alexander III from the power of the Comyn family, and was nom., in Sep. 1255, Regent [S.] and Guardian of the King and Queen. He held a command against the Norwegians, at Largs, in 1263; was a signatory to the treaty, 6 July 1266, for the cession of the Hebrides and the Isle of Man to Scotland; as also to the marriage contract of Margaret of Scotland with Eric of Norway, 25 July 128 1; and again in Feb. 1283/4, to the succession of the "Maid of Norway " to the throne of Scotland. He m., 1242, Cecil,(^) da. of John [.'' Eraser]. He d. at Whittingham, 24 Aug. 1289, aged 76, and was bur. at Dunbar. Writ for Inq. p. m. 11 Nov. 1289. VII. 1289. 7. Patrick (de Dunbar), Earl OF Dunbar [S.], who, first of his race, is called Earl of March [S.],('') s. and h., aged 47 in 1289. He had livery of his father's lands 14 May 1290. He was one of the competitors for the Crown of Scotland, lodging his petition 3 Aug. 129 1, at Berwick, in right of his great-grandmother, the Countess Ada, [illegit.] da. of King William as abovenamed. This claim he soon withdrew, swearing fealty to Edward I on 25 Mar. 1296, and taking the English side when hostilities began that year. In 1298 he was (') See chartulary of Coldstream, nos. i and 9, and chartulary of Kelso, nos. 77 and 81. She is conjectured to have been an heiress of the family of Fraser, in consequence of which alliance this Earl (4 Nov. 1261) bore (being the first of his race who did so) the roses of the house of Fraser in a bordure round the lion rampant of Dunbar. Christian Bruce (sister of Robert Bruce, the competitor, 1291-92, for the throne of Scotland) is the wife assigned to him in Wood's Douglas, but errone- ously, {ex inform. A. H. Dunbar). C") i.e. of the Scottish Marches or border lands. The Merse, or March, was part of the lands in Berwickshire granted, in 1072, by Malcolm III to Earl Gos- patric. It was not till the Pari, at Brigham, in Mar. 1290, that the Earl of Dunbar appears to have assumed the designation of Earl of March [Comes de Alarchia], since which period these Earls were generally known as "of March." The Welsh Marches, similarly, gave the title of " Earl of March " to the House of Mortimer, 1328 to 1424.