622492070. Waltheof , Earl of Huntingdon & Northampton
"Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria and ancestor of the Scottish Kings through the marriage of his daughter Matilda (Maud) to King David I. Son of Siward, the Danish earl of Northumbria (1041-1055), and Aelflaed, daughter of Aeldred, Earl of Northumbria, he received an earldom consisting of the shires of Huntingdon, Northampton, Bedford, Rutland, and Cambridge in 1065. He submitted to King William I (William the Conqueror) in 1067 and, though he joined northern rebels in 1069, was restored to favor and allowed to marry William's niece Judith. Later he was drawn into a rebellion gainst William in 1075, for which he was condemned for treason and executed."
[Encyclopædia Britannica, 12:481]"Waltheof, died 1076, Earl of Northumbria, after the Battle of Hastings, submitted to William the Conqueror and married William's niece, Judith. In 1075 he joined the conspiracy against the King and was sentenced to death, and on May 31, 1076, he was beheaded on St. Giles Hill near Winchester. Weak and unreliable in character, Waltheof, like his father, is said to have been a man of immense bodily strength."
[Kin of Mellcene Thurman Smith, 832]"SYWARD, the Saxon, Earl of Northumberland, had WALTHEOF, to whom King WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR gave the Earldom of Huntingdon, as also that of Northampton, with his niece JUDITH (daughter of ADELAIDE, half-sister of King WILLIAM, being the daughter of HARLOWEN, or HERLUIN, DE BURGO, and wife HARLETTE, mother of King WILLIAM by ROBERT Le Diable, Duke of Normandy). WALTHEOF conspired to expel the King and the Normans from England, for which, after a long imprisonment, he was beheaded at Winchester in 1075. Upon the decease of WALTHEOF, King WILLIAM offered JUDITH, his niece, widow of WALTHEOF, unto SIMON DE ST. LIS, a noble Norman, son of RANULPH LE RICH, who with his brother GAINERIUS LE RICH came into England at the time of the Conquest. But she refusing him because he was lame, the King was so displeased that he seized upon the castle and honor of Huntingdon, which she then held in dower, and bestowed it upon the said SIMON DE ST. LIS, and the town of Northampton with the whole hundred of Falkeley. SIMON thus not being able to obtain the mother, was advised to marry MAUD, the eldest daughter, and thereupon he had the Earldom of Huntingdon given him by the King. WALTHEOF by JUDITH his wife had the said MAUD, who married, first, the said SIMON DE ST. LIS, and second, DAVID, Earl of Huntingdon, son of MALCOLM III. CANMORE and ST. MARGARET of Scotland. DAVID (ST. DAVID) became King of Scotland in 1124, as successor of his brother ALEXANDER. DAVID died 23 May 1153, and was buried at Dunfermling. The only son of DAVID and MAUD was HENRY, Prince of Scotland and Earl of Huntingdon, who died 1152, during his father's life. He married ADA (ADAMA, or ADELINE), second daughter of WILLIAM, Earl of Warren and Surrey, in England, and his wife ISABEL, daughter of Prince HUGH Magnus, Count de Vermandois, second son of King HENRY I."
[The Royal Ancestry of Deacon Levi Tenney, 62]
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