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From: Systems Strategies and Solutions <>
Subject: Re: wife of Gospatrick I
Date: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 22:02:53 GMT


Jim Stevens () wrote:
: Weis' "Ancestral Roots" (34:22) reads : GOSPATRIC I, b ca 1040, d 1075/7,
: Earl of Northumberland, 1067-72, 1st Earl of Dunbar, 1072-5, Lord of
: Carlisle and Allerdale, visited Rome 1061; m. a sister of Edmund (CP IV
: 504, IX 704, SP III 241-245; Surtees Soc., vol 51; Dunbar 5).
:
: Do we know which "EDMUND" he is referring to ? I don't have ready access to
: any of the cited eferences.

"The Scots Peerage", Vol III, 1906, p. 243:
"The name of the Earl's wife is unknown, and her parentage has not been
discovered, though she had a brother Edmund or Eadmund..."
Then in an accompanying footnote: "It has been suggested that this
Edmund was identified with Eadmund, son of King Harold II, but of this
there is no proof."
--
Terry Corbet

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