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Waltheof was the second son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria.His mother was Aelfflaed, daughter of Ealdred, Earl of Bernicia, son of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria.In 1054, Waltheof's brother, Osbeorn, who was much older than he, was killed in battle, making Waltheof his father's heir.
Southern Northumbria, the former Deira, then became the Viking kingdom of York, while the rulers of Bamburgh commanded territory roughly equivalent to the northern kingdom of Bernicia. In 1006 Uhtred the Bold , ruler of Bamburgh, by command of Æthelred the Unready became ealdorman in the south, temporarily re-uniting much of the area of ...
Waltheof, Waldeve or Waldef is a masculine name of Old English origin and it survives in present-day as the name Waldo. Its original meaning is uncertain. It may refer to: Waltheof of Bamburgh (died after 1006), Waltheof I, Earl of Northumberland 963–995; Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria (died 1076), 11th-century Earl of Northumberland
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Waltheof was high-reeve or ealdorman of Bamburgh (fl. 994). He was the son of Ealdred, and the grandson of Oswulf I [1] and was father of Uhtred the Bold, Ealdorman of Northumbria. The name 'Waltheof' remained in his family when Earl Siward married his great-granddaughter and named his son Waltheof.
Maud was the daughter of Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his French wife Judith of Lens.Her father was the 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.
The name of Uhtred, Earl of Northumbria as it appears on folio 153r of British Library Cotton MS Tiberius B I (the "C" version of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle): "Uhtrede eorle". Uhtred of Bamburgh ( Uhtred the Bold —sometimes Uchtred ; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria .
Son of Waltheof. After 1006 he was ealdorman of Northumbria, i.e. he governed southern Northumbria as an ealdorman, regional governor, of the English king, in addition to rulership of Bamburgh. [14] Eadwulf III Cudel: fl. c. 1020 comes: Son of Waltheof. Known and titled only in post-Conquest sources. [15] Ealdred (II) fl. c. 1030 comes: Son of ...