• Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (Middle English: Wallef, Old Norse: Valþjóf) (died 31 May 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English...
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    Edition of Domesday Book, 24, London: Alecto Historical Editions, pp. 1–41, ISBN 978-0-948459-99-3 Lewis, C. P. (2004). "Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (c....
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  • Conqueror stripped Gospatric of his Earldom of Northumbria, and replaced him with Siward's son Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northampton. Gospatric fled into exile in...
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  • Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Scandinavian and early Anglo-Norman period in England. The...
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  • was Earl of Northumbria from 1068 to 1072 before being forced to flee to Scotland. His replacement was Ealdred's maternal grandson, Waltheof II, who...
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  • grandson of Waltheof of Allerdale. Another descendant of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria was Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar. In 1006 Malcolm II of Scotland invaded...
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    Huntingdonshire. In 1065 the earldom passed to Waltheof, son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Waltheof kept his title following the Conquest in 1066, and even...
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  • Waltheof of Bamburgh (died after 1006), Waltheof I, Earl of Northumberland 963–995 Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria (died 1076), 11th-century Earl of...
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  • before 1090 Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, Northampton and Huntingdon and Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror...
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    to Northumbria when Earl Siward died in 1055. He ignored the claims of Siward's son, Waltheof, and appointed Tostig Godwinson as earl. The earldom of East...
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  • celibacy of the clergy and marriage within church. 31 May – execution of Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, for his part in the Revolt of the Earls. Approximate...
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  • granddaughter of Earl Siward. Maud was the daughter of Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his French wife Judith of Lens. Her...
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  • wife of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. One of her sons (Ealdred's grandson) was Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, his daughter Maud married David I of Scotland...
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  • Seven Sisters, London (category Districts of the London Borough of Haringey)
    time of Domesday, the area was within the Manor of Tottenham held by Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, the last of the great Anglo-Saxon Earls. In the...
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    records the principal landowner as Judith, widow of Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria. The Church of England St Nicholas Church dates back to Norman days...
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  • nonetheless re-instated as Earl of Mercia. 1059 Malcolm III of Scotland pays homage to King Edward. 1050 Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria (died 1076) 1051 Edgar...
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  • April 2005). The Reign of Alexander II, 1214-49. BRILL. p. 14. ISBN 978-90-474-0682-2. Cannon, J. A. "Bigod, Roger, 4th Earl of Norfolk". Encyclopedia...
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    married Alice of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and Judith of Lens. Hugues Margaret de Tosny, married Walter de Clifford of Clifford...
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  • Carlisle and Gospatric of Dunbar, Waltheof was son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. Both Waltheof and his brother Gospatric witness Earl David's Glasgow Inquest...
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    title of Earl in this capacity was Gospatric II, Earl of Lothian, son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. It descended to George de Dunbar, 11th Earl of March...
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  • of Bamburgh in the early tenth century. A genealogy in the twelfth-century text De Northumbria post Britannos recording the ancestry of Waltheof Earl...
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    Sheffield Castle (category Grade II listed buildings in Sheffield)
    Book of 1086 states that, prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria, had an aula (hall) in the manor of Hallam...
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  • daughter of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria remembered in 13th century Cumberland as the mother of William fitz Duncan. She married Duncan II, King of Scots...
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    Earl of Northampton is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created five times. Waltheof (d. 1076) Maud, Queen of Scotland (c.1074–1130/31)...
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  • Queen of Scots at Scone, ending the Scottish interregnum. The Bruce family would rule until the death of David II in 1371. Upon the death of David II in...
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    remaining earls – Edwin (of Mercia), Morcar (of Northumbria), and Waltheof (of Northampton) – were confirmed in their lands and titles. Waltheof was married...
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  • Gospatric II (died 1138) was Earl of Lothian or Earl of Dunbar in the early 12th century. He was the son of Gospatric I, sometime Earl of Northumbria (d. after...
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    vita of the saint, and composed an account of the death of Earl Waltheof of Northumbria, whose body was laid to rest there. A versified version of the...
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  • were sons of Waltheof, ruler of Bamburgh, who died in 1006. He was succeeded by Uhtred, who was appointed by Æthelred the Unready as earl in York, with...
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  • Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford (1071–1074) Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Northampton Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (1065–1076) Earl of Kent Odo of Bayeux (1067–1082)...
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