AthelingWaltheof of Northumbria
Earl of Huntingdon. 1050 to 1076.
What is known, and how well
| Fact | Value | Certainty |
|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1050 | Year |
| Death | 1076 | Year |
| Parents | Not recorded | |
| House | House of Bamburgh | |
| Realm | England | |
| How sure we are | High | Of this record as a whole |
In brief
Son of Earl Siward. Submitted to William in 1066, joined the northern rising of 1069, was reconciled and married to the king’s niece Judith in 1070, and was executed after the Revolt of the Earls in 1076.
Events
- Robert de Comines is burned at Durham
The new Norman earl of Northumbria dies with his men in a single night.
With Edgar, Waltheof - The Danes and the north take York
Sweyn’s fleet in the Humber joins Edgar, Waltheof, and the Northumbrians against the Norman garrison.
With Sweyn, Edgar, Waltheof, William - The bridal of Norwich
Ralph de Gael marries fitzOsbern’s daughter and the earls plot at the feast.
With Ralph, Roger, Waltheof - The Revolt of the Earls
Lanfranc and the English shires break the rising while the king is in Normandy.
With Ralph, Roger, Waltheof, Lanfranc
What is uncertain
- Parentage is not recorded here.
Related people
Sources
Where this is recorded
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Avalon Project)
- Symeon of Durham, Historia Regum, in Symeonis Monachi Opera Omnia, ed. Thomas Arnold, Rolls Series, 1882 to 1885
- Orderic Vitalis, The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy, trans. Thomas Forester
- The Chronicle of Florence of Worcester, trans. Thomas Forester
Named in the record
- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Reference works
- Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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