Judith de Lens

Events

Date of Birth: 1054.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Date of Death: after 1086.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Lambert de Boulogne, count of Lens.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:639). Baldwin discusses evidence for it.

Mother: Adelais, daughter of Robert I, duke of Normandy.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (6:639) and by Thompson. Baldwin discusses evidence for it.

Spouse: Waltheof, earl of Huntingdon. Married 1070.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by van Houts (p. 264), and by the Complete Peerage (6:639).

Children:

Maud (died 1131) married (1) Simon de Senlis; married (2) David (later David I, king of Scots) in 1113.

Alice married Raoul de Tosny in 1103.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Robert I "le Magnifique" ("the Magnificent")” in The Henry Project. (2004).

Barrow, G.W.S. “David I (c.1085-1153)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Cawley, Charles. “JUDITH de Lens” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)

Lewis, C.P. “Waltheof, earl of Northumbria (c. 1050 - 1076)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

Thompson, Kathleen. “Being the Ducal Sister: The Role of Adelaide of Aumale” in Normandy and Its Neighbours: 900 to 1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011) pp. 61-76.

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.