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     Patrick, was a hostage for King James I. but returned to Scotland in 1427.. Patrick Dunbar was also known as (of Kilconquhar) in some records.
     Patrick Dunbar married Elizabeth Sinclair. Patrick Dunbar was the son of George Dunbar 10th Earl of Dunbar & March and Beatrix Unknown (Dunbar).
     Patrick died between 1453 and 1454 in Fife, Scotland. He predeceased his father between Martinmas 1453 and July 1454. The Kilconquhar line died out in 1564.

     Patrick Dunbar was born illegitimate before 1504 in Scotland. He appears to the eldest of the illegitimate children. He was the son of James Dunbar.
     Patrick Dunbar married Elizabeth Ogilvie. She was one of the heiresses of Durn and had issue Patrick, and Martha who was alive on 15 Feb 1584/5.
     14 April 1542 apud Stirling: Rex, confirmation charter Alexander de Cumnock [quo vendit consang. suo Patricio Dunbar ...] Tenend: dicto Patricio & heirs male; q.d. Alexander Dunbar filio naturali quondom Jacobi D in Suddie & heirs male, q.d. John Dunbar in Bennethfield, fratri germano Alexander Prior de Pluscarden & heirs q.d. nearest male heir, lie armis. Test: James Dunbar de Tarbert, James Dunbar de Conze, Robert Dunbar of Durris, M. James Dunbar, rectore de Cumnock, 4 Mar 1541, at Elgin .
     Patrick Dunbar was made legitimate on 6 December 1543 in Edinburgh when James Dunbar was named as the father. Preceptum legitimationis Patrick Dunbar bastard, natural son of the late James Dunbar in Sudy, in communi forma, etc. Per signetum. Gratis [but which Patrick?].
     Patrick Dunbar and John Dunbar (of Bennetsfield) were made legitimate along with Alexander Dunbar on 20 March 1543/44 in Edinburgh when James Dunbar was named as the father. Queen etc. dedit literas legitimation of Patrick Dunbar of Darkles, John Dunbar of Bennagefield & Alexandro Dunbar natural sons of the late James Dunbar in Sudy, bastards.
     Patrick Dunbar and James Dunbar were mentioned in a deed dated 20 March 1543/44. 20 March 1543/4 at Edinburgh: Queen etc. confirmation charter of John Ogilvy of Sanquhair who for pro summa pecunie per Alexander Dunbar of Cumnock persoluta, sold to Patrick Dunbar of Darkles, lands & barony of Sanquhare, Quhitray, Newtoun, Chapeltoun, Tullocht, Auchinleske, Drum de Pluscardin, terras forrestiarum de T. et D., with tenentibus etc. et lie ailhousis vic. Elgin et Forres: Tenend. said Patrick & his legitimate male heirs q.d. John Dunbar of Bennettsfield & heirs, q.d. Alexander Dunbar son of the late James Dunbar in Sude & heirs, q.d. Alexander Dunbar of Cumnock, heirs & assigns qu[ibuscumque of the Queen: concessit etiam quod unica sanea apud principale messuagium de Sanquhare capiendaunbar de Conqu; Wm Hay of Mayne; Archibald Muyrson of Marke; D. Johi, Faithe capellano ... at Elgin 26 Nov 1543. He was mentioned at the legitimation of Robert Dunbar and John Dunbar on 12 February 1547/48. There is an entry in the "Register of the Privy Seal of Scotland", recording the legitimation of Robert Dunbar, and John Dunbar, brothers of Patrick Dunbar, Baron of Sanquhar, natural sons of Alexander, prior of Pluscarden. (The reference to Sanquhar indicates that the Prior must have made over these lands near Forres to his eldest son before 1547). The following year a precept of sasine was drawn up. On 24 June it was signed by Alexander & 12 monks. This document made over extensive lands within the barony of Fochabers, which belonged formerly to Urquhart Priory, to Alexander Innes of Cromy (Crombie) who married Beatrix Dunbar, reputed to have been one of the Prior's daughters.
     Patrick Dunbar mentioned 2 & 8 August 1558.
     Patrick Dunbar lived at Sanquhar, Forres, Moray, 1560.
     On 12 September 1560, the Prior and 4 of his monks made over "the land and town of Westerton of Pluscardin" to John Dunbar, the younger brother of Patrick Dunbar of Sanquhar, near Forres, but in consideration for a specified annual rent. In the event of John Dunbar having no heirs, the property was to pass to another brother Alexander, who failing, Patrick, or in the event of the death of all of these, to their cousin, David Dunbar of Bennethfield. Patrick, John & Alexander were all natural sons of the Prior. Robert (who may have been dead by 1560) and John were legitimated on 12 Feb 1547/8.
     Patrick died in 1596?. He may be the Patrick Dunbar of Bennethfield, parish of Avach, and sherifdom of Inverness whose sasine in the Commissariot of Edinburgh was registered 17 Aug 1596.

     Patrick Dunbar was the son of Patrick Dunbar (of Bele or Biel).
     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, Patrick and Cuthbert. 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. (See title Moray.)
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. (See infra, under George, eleventh Earl of March.) 4 Sir John's second son Cuthbert, who had Blantyre, is now represented In the female line by Captain Nugent Dunbar of Machermore, co. Kirkcudbright.

     Patrick Dunbar was the son of Patrick Dunbar and Elizabeth Sinclair.
     Patrick Dunbar married Christian Home.

     Patrick Dunbar was born before 1483 in Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was the son of Sir John Dunbar (of Mochrum) and Margaret Dunbar (Dunbar).
     Patrick Dunbar married Margaret Vaus before 1502. She was the daughter of Patrick Vause of Barnbarroch,
by whom he had an only daughter, Margaret.
     Appointment by George Bishop of Galloway of Patrick Dunbar son of John Dunbar of Mochrum and Margaret Vaus his spouse and their heirs, as castellans and Keepers of the palace and fortalice of Balnespyk at the Church of Candida Casa, granting to them the 100/- lands of Balnespik of oldextent and the 6 merklands of Balchure in the barony of Quhitherne; rendering, besides the duties of their office, 27 merks yearly.
     Patrick Dunbar lived at Clugston, Penninghame, Wigtownshire, from 1508. He obtained lands of Clugston (parish of Penninghame) in 1508, by charter under the Great Seal.
     Patrick died on 9 September 1513 in Flodden, Northumberland, England.

     Patrick Dunbar was born before 1547 in Scotland. He was the son of Patrick Dunbar (of Creloch?).

     Patrick Dunbar was the son of James Dunbar.

      Patrick, succeeded his father Edgar in the lands of Caistron. He or descendants took the name of Caistron or Kestern, the last owner of the lands, John of Kestern, parting with them to the Abbey of Newminster about 1247 or a little later.. Patrick Dunbar was the son of Edgar Dunbar.

     Patrick Dunbar was born in 1304. He was the son of Patrick Dunbar 8/9th Earl and Ermengarde de Soulis.
     Patrick died before 5 September 1351.

     Patrick Dunbar was the son of David Dunbar.
     Patrick Dunbar and Alexander Dunbar were made legitimate between 1554-1555 when David Dunbar was named as the father. Et de xls compositionis legitimationis concesse Patricio Dunbar et Alexandro Dunbar filiis Magistri David Dunbar decani Moraviensis.
     15 May 1575: Discharge by Alexander Dunbar of Boith [Boath] to Huchon Ross of Kilrawok [Kilravock] of a charter of confirmation by the queen's grace upon lands of Petquhine, and a legitimation under great seal given to granter and Patrick Dunbar, his brother.

     Patrick Dunbar was the son of Rev John Dunbar (of Mefts) and Marion Sutherland.

     Patrick died before 26 July 1597 in Kilconquhar, Fife.
     His will was proved on 26 July 1597 in St Andrews. Patrik Dunbar, cotter in Kilconquhar.

     Warrick, 1899 states that Isabella (Geilis) married John Dunbar, the brother of Patrick, the 9th Earl.
     Sir Patrick, 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 1316, and also at Poictiers in 1356; but died and was buried at Candia, on his way to the Holy Land in 1356-57. Sir Patrick Dunbar was born before 1310. Some sources state the father of George & John was John the younger brother of Patrick the 9th earl of Dunbar. He was the son of Sir Alexander Dunbar.
     Sir Patrick Dunbar married Isabella Randolph, daughter of Thomas Randolph Earl of Moray and Isabel Stewart, circa 1320. He married, perhaps as his second wife, Isabella, younger daughter of Thomas Randolph, first Earl of Moray.
     Charter of Patrick de Dunbar, son of Lord Alexander, son of the Earl of Dunbar, granting and quitclaiming in the Prior's court at Ayton, on Wednesday after the Feast of St John the Baptist, to Adam de Pontefract, Prior, and the Convent of Coldingham, ½ carrucate of land in Swinewood, which he bought from Thomas, son of Ralph. Witnesses: Lord Robert de Lawedre, Justiciar of Lothian, Robert de Lawedre his son, sheriff, Henry de Prendergest, Hugh Giffard, John de Rayngton, Henry de Swinton, Gilbert de Lumsden, Roger de Lumsden, John de Paxton , and many others, Given at Lower Ayton Wednesday after the Feast of St John Baptist [26 June or 4 September] 1331.
     He fought against the English at Neville's Cross in 1346 and poitiers in 1356.
     Sir Patrick's seal, attached to the writ of 1352, shows a lion rampant within a double tressure. Legend, 'SIGILLVM PATRICII DE DVNBAR.' His wife's seal shows a shield with impaled arms, the first of husband and wife known in Scotland. Dexter, a lion rampant, within a royal tressure; sinister, three cushions in a royal tressure for Randolph. Legend, 'SIGILL ISABEL DE DUNBAR.
     Patrick died after 1356 in Candia, Crete, Greece. He was en route to the Holy Land. He was buried in Candia.

     Sir Patrick Dunbar was born in Cumnock, Ayrshire. He was the son of Sir Alexander Dunbar.
     Sir Patrick Dunbar married Janet Gordon, daughter of Alexander Gordon Master of Sutherland, in 1537 or 1553?. She was the daughter of Alexander Gordon, Master of Sutherland & sister of John 14th Earl of Sutherland. They married by a dispensation from the Pope on account on consanguity.
     Sir Patrick Dunbar was made legitimate between 1554 and 1555 when an unknown person was named as the father. Et de viije li? comp. bonorum escheatorum Patricii Dunbar, filiis et heredis apparentis Alexander Dunbar of Cumnock, Alex Brody de eodam et..., concessorum Alexander Priori de Pluscarden et Magistro Davidi Dunbar decano Moraviensi. He was Sheriff of Elgin, Moray, Scotland.
     Patrick died in 1577.

     Sir Patrick Dunbar (of Beil) was born in Scotland. He was the son of George Dunbar 9/10th Earl and Christiana Wardlaw.
     Sometimes styled "of Beil" which is in East Lothian and succeeded his brother David, and obtained Mochrum from his father.
     Paul states: Patrick, named fourth in writ of 1390 and in the safe conduct. In June 1407 he received a sum of money for his father and mother. In 1410 he, 'not less skilfully than manfully,' took the fortalice of Fastcastle, then held by Thomas Holden, an Englishman, who, while he abode there, committed many evils in Lothian, both by sea and land.' Douglas styles him Sir Patrick Dunbar of Bele, but the latter was his uncle.
     Sir Patrick Dunbar (of Beil) was mentioned on 23 November 1411.

     Sir Patrick Dunbar of 'Bele' or Biel who appears as brother of George, Earl of March, in 1387-88.7 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.

. Patrick Dunbar (of Bele or Biel) was born in Scotland. He was the son of Sir Patrick Dunbar and Isabella Randolph.
     Patrick died after 1437.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Boghill) (lost text) was the son of Sir Patrick Dunbar.
     Patrick died before 26 October 1592 in Dunibristle or Donibristle, Cowdenbeath, Fife, Scotland.
     His will was proved on 26 October 1602 in Edinburgh.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Creloch?) was born circa 1513. He was possibly illegitimate?. He was the son of Sir John Dunbar of Mochrum.
     Patrick Dunbar (of Creloch?) made a will dated 8 September 1547.
     Patrick died after 8 September 1547 in Scotland.
     His will was proved after September 1547.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Cumnock & Mochrum) was born before 1440 in Wigtownshire, Scotland. He was of Cumnock & Mochrum, descended from David Dunbar, youngest brother of the 10th Earl of Dunbar and 3rd Earl of March. He was the son of Sir John Dunbar (of Cumnock & Mochrum).
     Patrick Dunbar (of Cumnock & Mochrum) married an unknown person . He married Margaret, daughter of Sir Thomas Boyd of Kilmarnock. This requires confirmation and linking to existing Boyd family on database.

     Sir Patrick Dunbar (of Cumnok) was born before 1405. He was the son of Sir David Dunbar.
     Patrick died before 1437.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Easterbin) was the son of Robert Dunbar (of Easterbin).
     Patrick Dunbar (of Easterbin) married Agnes Dunbar (Dunbar), daughter of Ninian Dunbar (of Grangehill) and Finduella Christian? Dunbar.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Kilconquhar & Mochrum Loch) was born circa 1450. He was the son of Patrick Dunbar.
     Patrick Dunbar (of Kilconquhar & Mochrum Loch) married Janet Dunbar (Dunbar), daughter of Patrick Dunbar (of Cumnock & Mochrum), before 21 June 1474.
     He obtained in marriage to Janet Dunbar, half of the barony of Mochrum, called Mochrum Loch, under charter of resignation by James VI, dated 3 April 1479.
     Patrick Dunbar (of Kilconquhar & Mochrum Loch) married Isabel Dishington (Abercromby) before 9 May 1498. ... Patrick Dunbar of Kilconquhar & Ysabell Dischintoune, lady of the teyre of the lands and barony of Murthlye & sponse of the said Patrick, the relict & sponsa of late Alexander Abircorumby of that ilk ... 9 May 1498.
     Patrick died before 1516.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Loch & Kilconcquhar) was born. Patrick, who is referred to as sixth of Kilconquhar, married Margaret Gordon, who survived him. He died about 1549, leaving a son Andrew, who succeeded in or before 1550 and four daughters. He was the son of Patrick Dunbar (of Loch) and Christian McDowell.
     Patrick Dunbar (of Loch & Kilconcquhar) married Margaret Gordon before November 1519.
     20 Nov. 1519: Precemptum carte conjuncte infeodationis Patricii Dunbar de Loch et Margaret Gordon ejus spones ... super quinque mercatis terrarum de Bar... Elrig .. Dery ... Alterutrech .. barony of Muchrum in Wigtoun ... .
     Precept of Sasine by David Beaton Cardinal of St Andrews in favour of Patrick Dunbar of the lands of Kilconquhar etc. in 1540.
     Patrick died before 20 May 1549.
     20 May 1549: Instrument of Sasine of the Lands and Barony of Kilconquhar in favour of Andrew Dunbar son of the deceased Patrick Dunbar.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Loch) married Christian McDowell. Patrick Dunbar (of Loch) was the son of Patrick Dunbar (of Kilconquhar & Mochrum Loch) and Janet Dunbar (Dunbar).
     Respite granted 2 July 1498, 1503 7 1507 for part in slaughter of late Patrick MacKowloch.
Patrick (4) the elder son, married, about 1501, Christian McDowell of Garthland, 4 and fell at Flodden in 1513, predeceasing his father, who died before 1516, and was succeeded by a grandson Patrick (5)..
     Patrick died on 9 September 1513 in Flodden, Northumberland, England.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Park, etc was the son of Sir Patrick Dunbar (of Cumnok).
     Patrick died after 1425.

     Patrick Dunbar (of Sanquhar) was the son of Alexander Dunbar (Prior of Pluscarden).
     Patrick Dunbar (of Sanquhar) lived at Sanquhar, Forres, Moray, September 1560.

     Patrick died before 24 May 1688.
     His will was proved on 24 May 1688 in Moray.

     Patrick Dunbar 3rd Baronet, of Northfield was born circa 1676. He was the son of Robert Dunbar 2nd Baronet of Northfield and Mary Sinclair.
     Patrick Dunbar 3rd Baronet, of Northfield married secondly Catherine Brodie in 1722 in Scotland. Catherine was the daughter of Joseph Brodie of Mentoun. His first wife was the daughter of William Sinclair of Dunbeath.
     Patrick died on 5 April 1763. He was MP for Caithness 1727-34. He had two sons who predeceased him and two daughters. He was succeeded by his cousin Archibald.

     Patrick Dunbar 4th Earl of Dunbar was born in 1152. He was the son of Waldeve or Waltheof Dunbar and Aelina or Aline Unknown (Dunbar).
     Patrick Dunbar 4th Earl of Dunbar married Ada, of Scotland,, daughter of William the Lion,, King of Scotland, in 1184. Earl Patrick was twice married; first, in 1184, to Ada, a natural daughter of King William the Lion. She was the foundress of a nunnery at St. Bothans, now Abbey St. Bathans; and died in 1200.
William the Lion bestowed on him in 1184, Ada, one of his natural daughters, in marriage.
     Patrick Dunbar 4th Earl of Dunbar married secondly Christina FitzAlan (Bruce) between 1215 and 1218 in Scotland. he Earl married, secondly, between 1215 and 1218, Christina, widow of William de Brus of Annandale.
Andrew B W MacEwen, noted Scots genealogist, published an article in The Genealogist in 2003 which resolved her parentage. In that article, Mr MacEwen identified Cristina as a daughter of Walter fitz Alan (d. 1177), the first Steward of Scotland of that family.
     The Earl is said to have founded a collegiate church at Dunbar in 1218.
     He was described as a brave warrior. He held the office of justiciary of Lothian and Keeper of Berwick. In 1218, Earl Patrick founded a monastery of Red friars in Dunbar.
Patrick, fifth Earl of Dunbar, but the first who describes himself by that title, though Fordun styles him Earl of Lothian, 'Comes Lodensis,' when relating his marriage, was born in 1152. He appears in charters by his father, and also as a granter before his father's death. His estates in England occupied a good deal of his attention, and he is named in 1187 as having deforced a vassal from his lands of Derecester, or Darnchester, in Berwickshire. The Earl attended King William to Lincoln when he met King John there, and paid the usual homage for his lands in England.
Earl Patrick appears to have been somewhat litigious, or at least fond of 'a gude-gaun plea,' as he kept the monks of Melrose in trouble for a good while over a dispute between them and him as to a point of, trespass on some pasturage alleged to belong to the monks. The Pope ultimately referred the matter to the arbitration of Bruce Douglas, Bishop of Moray, and after much delay it was finally settled to the satisfaction of both parties.
In 1221 the Earl accompanied King Alexander II to York, and was present at his marriage there to the Princess Johanna, sister of King Henry III. In 1222 Earl Patrick is said to have taken part in an attempt to settle the direction of a portion of the March between England and Scotland, which had come into dispute through a question as to boundary between the Canons of Carham and Bernard de Hawden, a neighbouring landowner. But though his name apparently figures in a document dealing with the subject, which has been ascribed to 13 October 1222, there is strong reason, from internal evidence, for assigning it to the same date in 1245, and it therefore belongs to the history of his son the sixth Earl.
Earl Patrick held the earldom for fifty years, and died in 1232. The monks of Melrose, forgetting the annoyance he had caused them, give a touching picture of his closing days. He gathered his family together, with kinsmen and neighbours, to celebrate the joyful Christmastide. Four days later he was seized with grievous illness, and sending for his friend and relative, Adam, de Harkarres, Abbot of Melrose, received from him the last rites, extreme unction, and the monastic habit. He bade farewell to all, and died on the last day of the year. He was buried in the church of St. Mary of Eccles, where his grandfather is said to have founded a nunnery.
This Earl had two seals. The first, round, 21 inches in diameter, showing a mounted Knight in chain mail, riding to sinister, holding a sword with an ornamented blade raised in his right hand. He wears a flat-topped helmet, and carries suspended round his neck a heater-shaped shield charged with a lion rampant. The saddle-cloth has a fringe of six tags at the bottom. Legend-'SIGILL. COMI . . . PATRIC . . . VMBAR.' The second seal is round, showing an equestrian figure similar to the above, the saddlecloth having eight pointed tags on the fringe. Legend - SIGILL. COMITIS PATRICII DE DVMBAR.
Earl Patrick had apparently other children, perhaps daughters, but their names are unknown. Fergus, son of the Earl, appears in a charter by Earl Patrick to the convent of Coldstream, but he occurs nowhere else, and it is doubtful if he were a son of an Earl of Dunbar.
     Patrick died on 31 December 1232 in Scotland. In 1231 being then very old, after taking farewell of his children, relations, and neighbours, who he invited to his castle of Dunbar during the festivities of Christmas for the purpose, he retired to a monastery, where he died the following year. He was buried in St Mary, Eccles, Berwickshire, Scotland.

     Patrick Dunbar 5/6th Earl was born circa 1185. He succeeded his father at the age of 46 in 1232. He was the son of Patrick Dunbar 4th Earl of Dunbar and Ada, of Scotland.
     Patrick Dunbar 5/6th Earl married Euphemia Stewart, daughter of Walter Stewart 3rd High Steward and Lady Beatrix Angus, circa 1213. He married Euphemia, daughter of Walter, the third High Steward of Scotland, with whom he received the estate of Birkynside, in Lauderdale, which he burdened with a merk of silver to be paid yearly for the benefit of the church of Dryburgh. The Countess survived her husband, dying perhaps in or about 1267. From the chronicler of Lanercost, who tells a somewhat decorated anecdote of the strained relations between her and her eldest son, we learn she resided, in her later years, at Whittinghame, in East Lothian. The same writer also states that he was present when mother and son were reconciled at her deathbed, he asking her forgiveness. Cokayne's corrigenda refutes this and makes his wife his stepsister.
     Lord Hailes calls him the most powerful baron of the southern districts of Scotland. He held the first rank among the 24 barons who guaranteed the treaty of peace with England in 1244. He died while on the crusade with Louis IX of France. [The Scottish nation, p.74]
]Patrick, sixth Earl of Dunbar, succeeded his father on 31 December 1232, but had taken an active part in dealing with the estate some time before that date. A month or so after his accession, he did homage to King Henry III for his English estates, and from the various inquisitions on the subject we learn the extent of his lands in Northumberland. On 22 February 1233 the King ordered sasine to be given, but in 1247, another inquiry was made enumerating not only the lands but the holders of them under the Earl.'
In 1235 the Earl took an active part In suppressing the rebellion in Galloway.' In 1237, when King Alexander of Scotland resigned his rights to the three northern counties of England, Earl Patrick was the first of the Scottish magnates who became sureties for the fulfilment of the treaty. It was this Earl, and not his father as has been stated, who in 1245 took part in an attempt to settle a dispute as to marches between the Canons of Carham, and Bernard de Hawden, a neighbouring landowner on the Scottish side, which involved a settlement of the boundaries between the two countries.'
In 1247, owing, it is said, to remorse for injury done by him to the monastic house of Tynemouth, a cell of St. Albans,' in his irritation at the long dispute between the lords of Beanley and the monks as to the churches of Bewick and Eglingham, Earl Patrick made up his mind to join the crusade to the Holy Land, projected by King Louis IX of France. To defray expenses he sold or transferred his stud of horses in Lauderdale, to the Abbot and Convent of Melrose. The sale took place on 29 August 1247, and was confirmed by King Alexander ii. on 28 November same year.' A few months later the Earl had started on his journey. His last transaction In Scotland appears to have been a confirmation on 14 April 1248, of a grant by Mr. William of Greenlaw, to the monks of Melrose, which the Earl made in the presence of King Alexander at Berwick, and before 28 June he had left the country.' But he never reached Palestine, as his death at Marseilles is recorded by the chronicler of Lanercost. The same writer tells also two stories which give us a very favourable view of the Earl's character. One is that the Earl had issued invitations to a feast, but many more guests arrived than preparation had been made for. When his steward informed him of the lack of provision thus caused, the Earl ordered the kitchen to be set on fire, risking rather the loss of his house than the tarnishing of his reputation for hospitality. The other story, for which the narrator vouches, concerns his forgiving and lenient conduct to a robber whom he had rescued from the gallows and placed in a position of trust, but who tried to murder his master. The Earl, however, made light of it, and gave the rascal money to escape.
This Earl had two great seals, and two privy seals. The first great seal, used during his father's lifetime, round, shows an equestrian figure riding to sinister. with a sword raised in his right hand. He wears a square-topped helmet and carries a heater-shaped shield without any device. Legend, 'SIGILL. PATRICII FILII COMITIS PATRICII' His seal as Earl is also round, showing an equestrian figure riding to dexter, wearing a flat-topped helmet, having a sword in right hand, and carrying on left arm a heater-shaped shield charged with a lion rampant. Legend, 'SIGILLUM PATRICII COMITIS DE DVNBAR.' One of his privy seals shows a lion rampant, with legend,"' SECRETVM P. COMIT."
According to the Lanercost chronicler Earl Patrick and his wife had several children, and a William and a Robert appear in the writ of 14 April 1248, as if they were sons of the Earl. But by comparison of writs it would rather appear that they were his brothers. (See under the fifth Earl.).
     He led troops in suppression of the rebel Bastard of Galloway in 1235.
     Patrick died en route to join the Crusade of (St) Louis IX of France between 14 April 1248 and 13 December 1248 in Marseilles, France.