N.N. Fitz Dolfin

• Daughter of Dolfin Thorfinsson

Married

• Married Gospatric FITZ ARKIL Lord of Bingley in 1077 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.

Children

• Dolfin FITZ GOSPATRIC, was born 1078.
• Gospatric FITZ GOSPATRIC, was born 1080 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• Thurstan FITZ GOSPATRIC was born 1082 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• Uchtred de ALLERSTON, was born 1084 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England. He died 1109 in Allerston, North Riding, Yorkshire, England.
• Thorfinn FITZ GOSPATRIC, was born 1086 in Bingley, West Riding, Yorkshire, England.

Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal, Volume 4

NAMED IN DOMESDAY BOOK, page 387

In Langburgh wapentake, and other parts of the North Riding, Gospatric (the same no doubt) had held Brafferton, Harton, Ulveston, and fourteen other manors, but the king was retaining them in his own hands. At Ulveston this tenant in capite holds also another manor, not retained by the king, which serves to identify him as the same Gospa-tric.

Among the fourteen others, we find Cayton and Allerston, which his descendants afterwards held, although they were retained by the king at the date of the Survey.

Uctred de Alverstain, (Allerston), son of Gospatric, gave to prior Serlo (ob. c. 1102), and the monks of Whitby, two carucates of land in Kaiton (all which, by the Survey, Gos-patric had there in the days of king Edward), on condition they would receive him into their house, should he choose at any time to leave the world; and Thorfin, his son, gave them the church at Crosby-Ravenswart, in Westmorland, about

1140. Thorfin's son, Alan, left a daughter and heiress, Helen, whom Thomas de Hastings married, and their present representative in the male line is the Earl of Hunting-don. Nor was this all Gospatric's former estate, for his manor of Misham had been given to Ernes de Burun; three others to Roger the Poictevin count; two to the earl of Mortain; and four, with lands in Thoresby and other places, to earl Alan, who allowed him to hold them under him, as also to succeed Arkill as his tenant in eight others.
These hunts in Thoresby, if we may trust that fine old "Rotulus Ilistorico-Genealogieus " of Henry VI's time,? descended by another son, Dolfin, to the family called de Thoresby, which procluced an archbishop of York, and our genial old autiquary of Leeds, who was not a little proud of his long pedigree, "series longissima. Per tot dueta viros antiqui al origine gentis.

Gospatrie's property was, it seems, divided among his sons, who sunk to be under-tenants of what chey retained. They were Gospatric, only mentioned by Simeon of Durham, but perhaps the father of Thurstan named above; Uchtred of Allerston and Kaston, and Dolfin of Staveley (?).

Gospatric de Rigton

~ The Publications of the Thoresby Society, Vol. IX, p. 113, Gospatric the son of Arkil married a daughter of Dolfin son of Thorfin and was the father of Dolphyn , who had three sons: Torphyn, Swayn, and Ughtred.
Gospatric was the son of the than Arkill. In 1068, Arkill, being the most powerful chief of the Northumbrians, made a treat of peace with the Conqueror, who accepted his son, Gospatric, as a hostage for his fidelity. At this time Gospatric was already of age and a had been a landowner in the days of king Edward. Arkill joined Edgar Atheling in a desperate attack on the royal fortess at York where William Malet was governor. They were surprised by the king, many of them slain or taken prisoner, but Arkill was among those who excaped. Arkill's estates were undoubtable forfeited, and Gospatric, likely still a hostage, would have been sacrificed had Gospatric not found favor with the king. Gospatric was the only Englishman in Yorkshire to have sufficient favor with the Conqueror to be allowed to keep any of his private estate. His lands were divided among his sons, who sunk to be under-tenants of what they retained.

Gospatric married a daughter of Dolfin, son of Thorfin. Their sons were Gospatric, only mentioned by Simeon of Durham, but perhaps the father of Thurstan; Uchlred of Allerston and Kayton, and Dolfin of Staveley and Thoresby.~ Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, Vol. IV, pp. 384-387

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• Notes ◦the daughter of Bishop Ealdun, whom Earl Uhtred had dismissed. was taken by Kilvert, son of Ligulf. a Yorkshire thegn; from whom he fathered a daughter named Sigrid: Arkil, son of Ecgfrith, took her as his wife from whom he had a son called Cospatric. Cospatric married the daughter of Dolfin. son of Torfin, and they had a son called Cospatric who recently had to fight against Waltheof son of Aelfsige.
• A Study of Marriage and Murder in Eleventh-century Northumbria:Issue 82 By Christopher J. Morris

Links

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• https://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/normans_19.html
• https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~hwbradley/genealogy/aqwg1866.htm#33016
• http://gflynn.com/FAMILY/Collins/Sarah/Bradley/Broadley/GospatricBr...

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