Æthelreda of Northumberland

   Other names for Æthelreda were Athelreda of Dunbar and Ethelreda of Northumberland.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 40:22-24, Athelreda of Dunbar, daughter of Gospatric, wife of Duncan, King of Scots and mother of William Fitz Duncan ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Pedigree. ¹¹²⁴
"Pedigree of the Official Earls of Northumberland," A History of Northumberland, Vol. III, Part II, pp. 12-14

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Ethereda.
Donnchad married Æthereda, daughter of Gospatic Earl of Northumberland. The Cronicon Cumbriæ records that "Waldevus filius comitis Cospatricii" enfeoffed "Waldeve filio Gileminii" with property and "Ethreda sorore sua" [Dugdale Monasticon III, Wetherall Priory, Cumberland, XVI, Cronicon Cumbriæ, p. 585]. The Cronicon Cumbriæ records that "Ethreda sorore Waldevi patris sui" married "Doncani comes de Murrayse" and that their son "Willielmus" succeeded her nephew "Alanus filius Waldevi" [Dugdale Monasticon III, Wetherall Priory, Cumberland, XVI, Cronicon Cumbriæ, p. 585]. Donnchad and Æthereda had at least one son, William Fitz Duncan Alice de Rumilly.

Æthelreda married Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim, son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada Ard-rí Alban and Ingibjörg. (Donnchad mac Maíl Coluim was born about 1060 in Scotland,⁸⁴¹ died on 12 Nov 1094 in Kincardineshire. Scotland ⁸⁷¹ and was buried in Dunfermline Abbey, Fife, Scotland.)