Walthe Dunbar
Walthe of Dunbar, Male 1122 - 1182
Born, Dunbar Castle, E. Lothian, Scotland.
Died, Dunbar Castle, E. Lothian, Scotland.
Father of Alice Dunbar. Son of III Dunbar and (Unknown) Derdere.
Walthe of de Dunbar, 3rd Earl of Dunbar; hostage 1175 for William I "The Lion" then held captive by English. [Burke's Peerage] .l, he granted a charter to the monks of Durham. He was, 1175, one of the hostages for the release of William I [SCT] from imprisonment. He married Aline, who died 20 August 1179. He died 1182. [Complete Peerage IV:505]arl of Dunbar or Lothian, though he himself uses neither title, calling himself Waldeve the Earl. It is probably he who, as 'son of Gospatric the Earl,' is named first as one of five hostages given to King Stephen, after the battle of the Standard, in 1138. After his succession he confirmed the grants made byhis predecessors, the first charter granted by him as Earl being sealed in 1166, to the monks of Durham, Kelso, and Melrose, and the nuns of Coldstream. He was frequently with King William the Lion in his progresses through the kingdom, but seems generally to have kept aloof from political matters, except in one case, where he strove, but without success, to dissuade King William from going to war with England to enforce his claim to the earldom of Northumberland, and he was one of those who, in 1175, became sureties for that King that he would observe the treaty of Faliaise. He died in 1182, His seal, attached to a writ at Durham, shows an equestrian figure wearing a conical helmet, carrying a shield and with a sword, pointing upwards over the shoulder, in his right hand. Legend: SIGILLUM WALGEEVI COMITIS.' His wife was named Aelina, or aline, but nothing is known of her, except a reference to her in the Earl's charters, and the date of her death, 20 August 1179. [The Scots Peerage III:251-252]rd Maitland {1829}
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