• which he declined. He died at Melrose Abbey on 3 August 1159. Following the death of Waltheof, his successor as Abbot of Melrose, Abbot William, refused to...
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  • descendants being Saint Waltheof of Melrose. Additionally, another branch of the family would use the Waltheof name including: Waltheof of Allerdale who was...
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  • 1174; and arbitrating a dispute between the Abbot of Melrose and Richard de Morville. Waltheof married a woman named Alina, possibly Scottish, and by...
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  • Anglo-Norman noble Raoul III of Tosny. One of Waltheof's grandsons was Saint Waltheof (died 1159), abbot of Melrose. Waltheof was portrayed by actor Marcus Gilbert...
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    honour. Waltheof of Melrose, stepson of King David and at one time prior of Kirkham, was abbot of Melrose from 1148 to 1159. He endowed Melrose with a...
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    monk in Melrose Abbey during the abbacy of Waltheof (ab. 1148–1159), and from documentary evidence it seems likely that Jocelin entered Melrose about 50...
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    created "Lord Melrose". Lochleven however resumed the title of commendator in 1613 until his death in 1620. Richard, 1136-1148 St. Waltheof, 1148-1159 William...
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  • Simon II de Senlis, Earl of Huntingdon-Northampton, Saint Waltheof of Melrose, and Maud de Senlis, who married (1st) Robert Fitz Richard (of the de Clare...
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  • Richard of Tonbridge; she married secondly Saer De Quincy. Simon II of St Liz (d. 1153) Saint Waltheof of Melrose (c. 1100–1159/1160) Her first husband died...
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    modernized Shava. Waltheof of Melrose (c. 1095 – 1159): 12th century English abbot and saint; born to the English nobility, Waltheof is noted for his severe...
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  • (Edinburgh, 1874) Life of St Waltheof, ed. by George McFadden, 'An Edition and Translation of the Life of Waldef, Abbot of Melrose, by Jocelin of Furness'...
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  • Henry VIII of England in 1538. William I, 1131, died 1145 Maurice, 1145 Waltheof Ailred, 1147, 1160, 1164, died 1167 Sylvanus, occurs 1170 (previously Abbot...
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  • Walter FitzAlan. Issue by Euphemia: Patrick, 7th Earl of Dunbar. Waldeve (Waltheof), Rector of Dunbar, named as son of Earl Patrick by Pope Innocent IV in...
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  • 1260-1261 Guy, 1261-1269 Waltheof, 1269 -1272 Patrick (?) Walter (?) John, 1291-1296 Gervase, 1306-1323 William, 1328 -1345 John de Wedel, 1329 x 1342 Andrew...
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  • Thurstan refused to accept that the new Archbishop of Canterbury, William de Corbeil, was his superior, and did not help with William's consecration. The...
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    gave David the hand of Matilda of Huntingdon, daughter and heiress of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria. The marriage brought with it the "Honour of Huntingdon"...
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  • Holm Cultram, as recorded by the Chronicle of Melrose. Robert de Vieuxpont's maternal grandfather was Hugh de Morville, one of the killers of St Thomas of...
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  • Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great...
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    Norway (Translation of the relic) Stephen (Discovery of the relic) Waltheof of Melrose August 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) Flag Day (Venezuela) Independence...
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    monastery there since the 8th century. It was probably taken over by Céli monks in the 9th or 10th centuries, and these survive into the 14th century...
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  • Abbey Fogo Priory Jedburgh Abbey Jedburgh Blackfriars Kelso Abbey Melrose Abbey Old Melrose Monastery (site) Peebles Red Friars (site) Roxburgh Greyfriars...
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    rest of the Church of England, is a member of the Anglican Communion. Walter de Grey purchased York Place as his London residence, which after the fall of...
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    Diocese of St Andrews be made a metropolitan, and the beatification of Waltheof of Melrose. One of his final acts was the blessing of his preferred successor...
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  • Surrey (Greater London); founded before 1140; granted to Bermondsey by Waltheof, son of Sweyn; accidentally destroyed by fire; rebuilt c.1335; became denizen:...
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