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Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold—sometimes Uchtred; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I , ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg) , whose family the Eadwulfingas had ruled the surrounding region for over a century.
Earl of Northumbria or Ealdorman of Northumbria was a title in the late Anglo-Saxon, ... 1016 Eiríkr Hákonarson: 1016 1023×1033 Siward: 1023×1033 1055 Tostig ...
This page lists all earldoms, extant, extinct, dormant, abeyant, or forfeit, in the peerages of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.. The Norman conquest of England introduced the continental Frankish title of "count" (comes) into England, which soon became identified with the previous titles of Danish "jarl" and Anglo-Saxon "earl" in England.
Ealdred was an Earl in north-east England from the death of his uncle, Eadwulf Cudel, soon after 1018 [1] until his murder in 1038. He is variously described by historians as Earl of Northumbria, [2] Earl of Bernicia (northern Northumbria) [1] and Earl of Bamburgh, [3] his stronghold on the Northumbrian coast. [4]
One of Siward's sons is known to have survived him, Waltheof, whose mother was Ælfflæd. Waltheof later rose to be an earl in the East Midlands before becoming Earl of Northumbria. [122] When Waltheof rebelled against William the Conqueror, however, the act led to his execution and to his subsequent veneration as a saint at Crowland Abbey. [123]
The title of Earl of Northumberland has been created several times in the Peerage of England and of Great Britain, succeeding the title Earl of Northumbria. Its most famous holders are the House of Percy ( alias Perci), who were the most powerful noble family in Northern England for much of the Middle Ages.
Gospatric or Cospatric (from the Cumbric "Servant of [Saint] Patrick"), [citation needed] (died after 1073), was Earl of Northumbria, or of Bernicia, and later lord of sizable estates around Dunbar. His male-line descendants held the Earldom of Dunbar , later known as the Earldom of March , in south-east Scotland until 1435, and the Lordship ...
Simon was the son of Randel le Ryche [2] he had a brother called Garnier de Senlis, according to a manuscript of St Andrew’s Priory, Northampton. He married in or before 1090 Maud of Huntingdon, daughter of Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, Northampton and Huntingdon and Judith of Lens, niece of William the Conqueror. This Judith had earlier ...