Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant Volume 3 - Softcover

George E. Cokayne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1235974243 ISBN 13: 9781235974243

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...(who apparently was heir of line), both being sons of Sir Patrick Dunbar, by Isabel, yst da. of Thomas (Randolph), Earl of Moray abovenamed. (b) Their names were Patrick, who was 6. 1304 and d. before 6 Sep. 1851, and John, living 5 Sep. 1361, and 6 Oct 1354, who d. before (this date) July 1368. (c) This is tho first record of any charter settling the title. In it the Earl is designed "Patriciua Dunbarr, miles, ultimus Vomes ejusdem," referring to the words "Mum comitatum marckic' which appear in tho line above. Ex inform. A. H. Dunbar. ("') Tiub seems a very enrly occurrence of the Christian nnmo "George," not, perhaps, very usual in England till the birth, in 1449, of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, 1461-78. (o) In liiR very curious letter, 18 Feb. 1399/400, from Dunbar to Henry IV he writes (claiming cousinship with that King), "If dame Alice the Bewmont was your Graundt-dame dame Marjory Comyn, her full sister, was my Graundc-damc on the other side." The writer's great grandmother, Marjory Cumyn (Countess of March, or Dunbar, abovenamed) was aunt (not sister) to Alice, Lady Beaumont nee" Cumyn) vhote daughter, Isabel, Duchess of Lancaster was (maternal) grandmother to Henry IV, to which King, therefore, the writer was third cousin once removed. It must be noted that the word " Graunde-datnc" means Great (?ra»iamother. (See Jaraieson's Scott. Diet.) The word " Qudome" would have been used for Grandmother. Tho letter is in facsimile in the Nat-MSS. S., Part ii, No. 63. granted him the forfeited estates of the Lord Bardolf, he having assisted at the battles of Homeldoq Hill, 14 Sep. 1402, and of Shrewsbury, 23 July 1403. After the death of. Robert III S., in 1406, he treated with t...

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• Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1235974243
• ISBN 13: 9781235974243
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242