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| Father:1 | Patrick of Dunbar (around 1213-24 August 1289), 7. Earl of Dunbar | ||
| Mother:2 | Cecilia (-) | ||
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| He is named with his father and brothers in the compact at Turnberry in 1286, already cited, and he also appears as a witness to charters by his father and brothers. Nothing more is known with certainty regarding him, unless he be the Sir John Dunbar, late of Birkenside, who is named in a charter by his son John Dunbar, to the monks of Dryburgh, the date of which is not given. But if this be so, his male issue must have failed before 1368, as his grandnephew George succeeded to the earldom.3 | ||
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| disproved | The information is proven to be wrong. |