History of the Carlile family

2 HISTORY OF THE CARLILE FAMILY.
being that " Duncan, King of Scotland," who has been immortalized
by Shakespeare in his play " Macbeth," and the younger, Maldred
(probably identical with Hildred), who removed to Cumbria previously
to the Norman conquest of England. Crinan was slain in 1045.
Hildred, or Maldred, was, it seems. Lord of the Barony of
Carlyle (including the site of the modern City of Carlisle), and
of other lands. He became known by the local name Carlyle, or
Caerluel (meaning "fortress on the lake"), a name which is found spelt
in from forty to fifty different ways in early times.
Hildred, or Maldred, married Aldgitha, daughter of Uchtred,
Earl of Northumberland, by Elgifa, daughter of the English King
Ethelred the Unready. 1 Uchtred was slain by Cnut in 10 16.
Ethelred's descent from Alfred the Great is a matter of public
history, and may be shortly stated as follows : — Alfred's son, King
Edward the Elder, was the father of King Edmund. King Edmund's
son, King Edgar, was the father of Ethelred the Unready. Thus
the Carlile family became connected by marriage with the Royal
House of England.
Hildred, or Maldred, had a son, Gospatrick, who became Earl
of Northumberland, and, it is supposed, a younger son, Odard, or
Uchtred, who died in his father's lifetime, leaving two sons, Robert,
who was perhaps Sheriff of Cumberland, 11 58 — 1 1 74, and a younger
son, Richard. Robert had a son, Ade, or Adam, who was the first
of the family to live in Annandale, having received a grant of lands
at Kinmount in the parish of Cummertrees from William Bruce
[post p. 9). Ade, or Adam, Carlyle married Matilda (whose family
name is unknown) and died in 12 13, leaving a son, Eudo (some
writers say grandson ; perhaps there were two Eudos), who died in
1230. This son, or grandson, was followed by a son, Sir William de
Carlyle, whose son, William the Younger, married Sapience, and
died before 1274. Sir William Carlyle, son of William the Younger,
sold most of his lands in England and removed to Annandale, where
he settled at Kinmount and married Margaret, fifth daughter of
1 W. F. Skene's Celtic Scotland, vol. i, p. 394-