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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.
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 ...
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 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.
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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
Rulers of Bamburgh, significant regional potentates in what is now northern England and south-eastern Scotland during the Viking Age.Sometimes referred to in modern sources as the Earldom of Bamburgh, their polity existed for roughly two centuries, beginning after the attacks on the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria by the Vikings in the later ninth century, and ending after the Norman ...