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THE DUNBARS OF GRANGE. 357
7. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, m. 1213 Euphemia, daughter of Walter Fitzalan or Steward, Lord High Part ]
Steward, and died at Marseilles 1248, leaving a son, App.
8. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, born 1213, died 1289. He married circ. 1242 Cecilia, daughter of John
Fraser (?), by whom he]had two sons, of whom the elder,
9. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar and March (born 1242, died 10 Oct. 1308) married Marjory Cumyn,
daughter of Alexander, Earl of Buchan, by whom he had a son,
10. Patrick, Earl of Dunbar, March, and Moray, born 1284 and died 11 Nov. 1368, having had issue
by his wife, Agnes, elder daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, two sons,
Patrick and John, both of whom predeceased him, s.p. 1 His heir was thus the grandson (11) of
9o. John Dunbar, younger son of Patrick, Earl of Dunbar (8). He left a son,
10a. Sir Patrick Dunbar who died in Gandia 1356, having married Isabel, younger daughter and
co-heiress of Thomas Randolph, Earl of Moray, and had two sons, viz., (a) George, Earl of Dunbar
and March, who died 1416-20, leaving a son and successor (d. 1457) ; and (6)
11." John Dunbar, Earl of Moray, who died 1391. He married Marjory, daughter of Robert II. King
of Scotland, by whom he had two sons, viz., Thomas, Earl of Moray, whose male line failed on the
death of his son s.p. in 1427, and
12. Alexander Dunbar, of French-aught, who m. Isabel Fraser of Frendraught and had a son,
13. James Dunbar, who succeeded to the Earldom of Moray on the extinction of the line of his uncle,
Thomas (ut sup.). He married 2 Isabel, daughter of Sir Walter Innes of that ilk, and had a son,
14. Sir Alexander Dunbar of Westfleld, who married in 1452, Isabella, daughter to Alexander
Sutherland of Duffus, by whom he had six sons, of whom the fifth 3
15. David Dunbar of Durris, co. Inverness (1495), married and had a son,
16. Alexander Dunbar of Durris, who died 1569, leaving a sou,
17. Robert Dunbar of Durris, who married Christian Learmonth, and had a son,
18. David Dunbar of Durris, who married Janet, daughter of Hugh Rose of Kilravock, and had a son,
19. Mark Dunbar of Durris and Grange. He sold Durris in 1592 and purchased Grange, co. Moray.
He married Isobel Falconer and had a son,
20. Ninian Dunbar of Grange, who married (a) Ogilvy, daughter of .... Lord Banff, and had issue
(1) Robert of Grange ; (2) David of Kirkhill, ancestor of the baronets of Durn ; and (b) Christian
Dunbar, by whom he had issue (1) William of Durn, created a baronet, whose male line became
extinct in 1811 ; and (2) John of Hillhead. Of these the eldest,
21. Sir Robert Dunbar of Grange, born 1636 ; received the honour of knighthood 1660. He married
Grizell, daughter to Alexander Brodie of Brodie (by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Alexander Innes of
that ilk), and by her had an eldest son,
22. Robert Dunbar of Grange, born 1662 ; married his cousin Katharine, daughter to James Brodie of
Bi'odie (son of the above-named Alexander Brodie of Brodie), by whom he had issue a second but
only surviving son,
23. Alexander Dunbar of Grange, commissioner for Elgin 4 to the Scottish Parliament in 1703. He
married Mary, daughter of James Fraser, secretary to Chelsea Hospital, and by her had issue,
including a second daughter,
Katharine Dunbar, 5 m. Thomas Wedderburn of Cantra.
Dunbar Armorial Bearings. — 1st and 4th Gules, a lion rampant Or within a bordure of the last
charged with eight roses of the first for Dunbar Earl of Dunbar and March; 2nd and 3rd Or, three cushions
pendant within a double treasure flowered and counterflowered Gules for Randolph, Earl of Moray (" One
of the oldest coats known," J.W.'s MS.).
1 According to G.E.C. his honours were on his suggestion granted, 25 July 1368, to his great nephew,
George, son and heir of Sir Patrick Dunbar by Isabel, younger daughter and co-heiress of Thomas
Randolph, Earl of Moray (son of Thomas Randolph, chamberlain of Scotland, and Isabel, sister of King
Robert I. of Scotland). See also Proceedings of the Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. xxii., p. 187, s. Dunbar.
2 The validity of this marriage has been questioned, James Dunbar having been second cousin (and thus
within the then prohibited degrees) to Isabel Innes, who died before the papal dispensation could be
obtained. Thus their sou did not succeed to their father's Earldom.
3 Of the others the lines of the two eldest are extinct, while the third, Alexander, was ancestor of the
Dunbars of Mochrum, co. Wigtoun, and the fourth, Gavin, Bishop of Aberdeen. From the sixth,
Patrick, descended the Dunbars of Bennagefield and Dykeside.
4 There is a Dunbar aisle in Elgin Cathedral.
5 In his printed memoir J.W., following Douglas' Baronage, erroneously calls her daughter of Robert (her
grandfather), an error he corrects in his MS. (see J.W. 115).