Sir Alexander Dunbar of Cockburn

In this piece of the Dunbar line there are many Patricks and many Alexanders, and they are easily confused. Please see the excerpt from the Scottish Peerage, below.

Citations

1. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1205. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
2. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.

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• page 687 of The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information, Volume 17 Britannica Company, 1911 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries

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Sir Alexander, who is named as the third of the brothers in the compact of 1286 and elsewhere. He had a fee or grant of 20 merks sterling bestowed on him by King Alexander III., which continued to be paid after the King's death, up to September 1289. There are other unimportant references to him, and he was alive on 26 June 1331, when his son Sir Patrick quit-claimed his rights in Swinwood to the monks of Coldingham. It is not known when he died. The name of his wife is nowhere stated.
Sir Alexander had issue, so far as is known, one son:

(1) Sir Patrick, who, in 1331, as son of Sir Alexander, son of the Earl, quit-claimed his rights in Swinwood to the monks of Coldingham. He was present at the battle of Durham in 1346, and also at Poictiers in 1356 ; but died and was buried at Candia, on his way to the Holy Land in 1356-57. He married, perhaps as his second wife, Isabella, younger daughter of Thomas Randolph, first Earl of Moray. Isabella Randolph survived her husband, and on 20 July 1361, as Isabella Ranulph, heiress of John Ranulph, Earl of Moray, etc. (her brother), she confirmed a charter by Andrew del Garvyauch, of date 8 August 1357.
Sir Patrick Dunbar and Isabella Randolph had issue :
i. George, who became tenth Earl of Dunbar.

ii. John, who was, in 1372, created Earl of Moray.

iii. Sir Patrick Dunbar of ' Bele ' or Biel, who appears as brother of George, Earl of March, in 1387-88. In or before 1390 he received from his brother Earl George 40 merks of land in the territory of Mersington,
including a considerable portion of the parish of Eccles. He was made prisoner at Homildon, 14 September 1402. He occurs in charters of 1423 and 1425, as ' uncle ' of George, eleventh Earl of March. He was one of the envoys to arrange for the ransom of King James I., and he appears as a commissioner for the Marches down to 12 July 1429. His wife, in 1434, was Euphemia Stewart, daughter of David, Earl of Strathearn, and widow of Patrick Graham of Dundaff. He was alive in 1438. He had issue at least two sons, Patrick and George, and is supposed to have been the ancestor of "William Dunbar the poet.
Sir Patrick Dunbar had another daughter, who married John Maitland of Thirlstane. She is, by Mr. Wood, called Elizabeth, but in several charters in 1369 she is styled Agnes, and must have been married some time before that year, when Earl George styles her his ' sister,' and bestowed upon her husband and her son Robert the lands of Tibbers, co. Dumfries.

iv. Agnes, whom George, Earl of Dunbar, styles his very dear sister, when in 1372 he granted to her the lands of Mordington and Whittinghame, on her marriage with Sir James Douglas of Dalkeith, ancestor of the Earls of Morton.

v. David. In 1375, George, tenth Earl of March, resigned in favour of David Dunbar the very extensive territories of Cumnock, Blantyre, and other lands. According to Sir Robert Douglas, in his Baronage, David was a son of a George Dunbar, an alleged son of the eighth Earl, but of this no evidence has been found. In the charter of 1375 no relationship is stated, and no direct proof has been discovered, but from the very large grant thus made the barony of Cumnock alone embracing 50,000 acres of land there is a presumption that David was a brother of Earl George. He appears further in three writs of uncertain date, but confirmed by Robert, Duke of Albany, in 1411, as Sir David Dunbar of Cumnock, knight, and had then a son and heir, Sir Patrick of Dunbar, also a knight, who was the real granter of certain lands and wadsets to Gilbert Grierson of Arde.
David had issue:
(i) Sir Patrick, succeeded his father before 1424, when he was Lord of Cumnock, and was one of the hostages for King James I. He apparently deceased before 1437, when his son Sir John was lord of Cumnock and Mochrum.
Sir John had two sons:
i. Sir Patrick of Cumnock.
Sir Patrick of Cumnock had three daughters: a. Euphemia, married, before 21 June 1474, to Sir James Dunbar, eldest son of Sir Alexander Dunbar, first of Westfield. b. Margaret, married before same date to Sir John Dunbar, second son of Sir Alexander, and from her the present Sir William Cospatrick Dunbar of Mochrum park is descended in the female line. c. Jonet, married to Patrick Dunbar of Kilconquhar.
ii.Sir Cuthbert of Blantyre.
Sir Cuthbert, who had Blantyre, is now represented in the female line by Captain Nugent Dunbar of Machermore, co. Kirkcudbright.

Source: "The Scots Peerage Vol 3", page 259.
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The 7th Earl of Dunbar’s only recorded wife and the mother of his sons was a lady named in a charter by her eldes son, Cecilia filia Johannis. No other designation of her has been found. ... They had issue:

3. Sir Alexander, who is named as the third of the brothers in the compact of 1286 and else where. He had a fee or grant of 20 merks sterling bestowed on him by King Alexander III, which continued to be paid after the King’s death, up to September 1289. There are other unimportant references to him, and

he was alive on 26 June 1331, when his son, Sir Patrick, quit-claimed his rights in Swinwood to the monks of Coldingham.

It is not known when he died. …

The name of his wife is nowhere stated.

Sir Alexander had issue,

so far as is known, one son:

1. Sir Patrick ...

Source: THE SCOTS PEERAGE, ed. by Sir James Balfour Paul, Vol III, Edinburgh, 1906, pp. 259-60.