NORTHUMBERLAND, Waltheof
1050 - 1076 (26 years)
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Name NORTHUMBERLAND, Waltheof [1, 2] Birth 1050 Northumberland, England 
[1] Gender Male Books About The Winter Mantle by Elizabeth Chadwick 
Elizabeth Chadwick Novel Differentiator Last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I. Relation to Me 27 GGF Royalty & Nobility 1st Earl of Northumbria Death 31 May 1076 [1] Person ID I7437 My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
Father SIWARD d. 1055 Relationship natural Mother Living Relationship natural Family ID F1895 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family OF LENS, Judith, b. 1054, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. Aft 1086 (Age > 33 years) Children + 1. DE HUNTINGDON, Adelisa, b. 1085, Flamstead, Hertfordshire, England d. Aft 1126 (Age > 42 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]+ 2. MAUDE, Countess of Huntingdon Queen, b. 1074 d. 1130, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 56 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural]Family ID F1872 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 4 Feb 2024
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Birth - 1050 - Northumberland, England 
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Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria - Wikipedia
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Notes - Last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria.
In 1075, Waltheof joined the Revolt of the Earls against William. It was the last serious act of resistance against the Norman conquest of England. His wife, Judith betrayed Waltheof to her uncle, who had Waltheof beheaded on 31 May 1076.
In 1092, after a fire in the chapter house, the abbot had Waltheof’s body moved to a prominent place in the abbey church. When the coffin was opened, it is reported that the corpse was found to be intact with the severed head re-joined to the trunk.[1] This was regarded as a miracle, and the abbey, which had a financial interest in the matter began to publicise it. As a result, pilgrims began to visit Waltheof’s tomb.
After a few years healing miracles were reputed to occur in the vicinity of Waltheof’s tomb, often involving the restoration of the pilgrim’s lost sight.
Waltheof also became the subject of popular media, heroic but inaccurate accounts of his life being preserved in the Vita et Passio Waldevi comes, a Middle English Waltheof saga, since lost, and the Anglo-Norman Waldef.
- Last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria.
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Sources - [S1416] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
- [S1748] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, (Location: Salt Lake City, UT; Date: 2013;), Volume 1, Pages 441-442.
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- [S1416] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).