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- BIOGRAPHY
George Dunbar, 10th earl of Dunbar and March, was born about 1336, the son of Sir Patrick Dunbar and Isabel Randolph. He married Christiana Wardlaw.
First styled as Lord of Annandale and Man, he was as Warden of the Marches a great and powerful noble. He accompanied Douglas in his foray in England in 1388 and, after the battle of Otterburn, took command of the Scots and conducted them safely home.
However, things changed and he became a rival of the Douglases. When the daughter of Archibald 'the Grim', Earl of Douglas, having been preferred to his own as bride for the duke of Rothsay, the king's son, Dunbar renounced his allegiance. Fleeing to England, he offered his services to King Henry IV of England, who gladly received him in protection.
The earl fought on the English side at Homildon Hill, as well as at the battle of Shrewsbury, against Owen Glendower and the Percys. After the death of the Scottish King Robert III, in 1409, he reconciled with the Douglases and returned to Scotland where he died in 1420, aged eighty-two.
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