Waltheof, earl of Northumbria

Events

Date of Birth: about 1050.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Lewis (ODNB).

Date of Death: 31 May 1076.

Place of Death: beheaded on St Giles’s Hill, outside Winchester.

The date and place are given by Lewis (ODNB). The death is recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle s.a. 1076 (E) and s.a. 1077 (D).

Place of Burial: Crowland Abbey.

The place is given in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle s.a. 1076 (E) and s.a. 1077 (D).

Relationships

Father: Siward (died 1055), earl of Northumbria.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 223).

Mother: Ælfflæd.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB).

Spouse: Judith (born about 1054). Married about 1070.

This relationship is given by Lewis (ODNB), by Keats-Rohan (p. 223), and by van Houts (p. 264).

Children:

Maud (died 1131) married David (later David I, king of Scots) in 1113).

Alice married Raoul de Tosny in 1103.

References

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

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

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

Plummer, Charles (ed.) Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: A Revised Text (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1892-1899).

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