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Judith "Countess of Northumberland" Lens
(Abt May 1054 - Abt 1090)
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==Judith of Lens==
: As the niece of William the Conqueror, Judith was pawned off by the Norman king ... to be used in marriage to strengthen local alliances.
: She put up with Waltheof. But after he was beheaded for treason, she resisted William's plot to marry her off to Simon St. Liz de Senlis... and fled, in spite of being left 'temporarily' destitute and stripped of titles.
: De Senlis went on to become her eldest daughter's -- Maud -- first husband. But it was Maud's second husband -- David I of Scotland -- who ''ultimately'' became Earl of Huntingdon in her right.[[#Burke|Burke]][[#Weber|Weber]]After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King William offered the hand of his niece Judith, to a noble Norman named, Simon St. Liz. Judith rejected the alliance, and upset the Conqueror. Displeased by her refusal, William immediately seized her dower which included the castle and honour of Huntingdon.
Consequently, she and her daughter were left in a state of privation and obscurity in the Isle of Ely and elsewhere, while William gave Simon St. Liz the town of Northampton and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at £40 per annum, to provide shoes for his horses. (Burke; Dugdale)
===Titles===
* Judith of Lens, Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria[[Wikipedia: Judith of Lens]]Husband's right
===Parents===
: Lambert II, Count of Lens and Adelaide of Normandy
===Marriage and Issue===
: m. 1070 Waltheof, Earl Huntingdon and Northumbria. Issue: 3}Waltheof's profile says they had 2 dau.
* Maud m.2 David I of ScotlandEarl of Huntingdon in wife's right
Burke states that St. Liz was disappointed at being unable to marry the Countess of Huntingdon, but that he had better luck with with her elder daughter, Maud. Once they married, King William conferred the Earldoms of Huntingdon and Northamptonupon upon Simon de St. Liz.
* Adelise m. Raoul III de ConchesConches' sister Godehilde m. Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
== Source ==
* Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. I p. 277-278, Vol. V page 489
* Burke, Bernard. ''[[Space:A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct, Peerages of the British Empire|A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct, Peerages of the British Empire]]'' (Harrison, London, 1866) (pp. 467-8)
* Dugale
* Weber, J. (n.d.) The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest. Rootsweb.com
* ''[[Space:Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton|Reports and Papers]] of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton'' (Savill and Edwards, London, 1850) Vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/reportspapersofa01asso#page/236/mode/1up Page 236]
=== Footnotes ===
==Judith of Lens==
: As the niece of William the Conqueror, Judith was pawned off by the Norman king ... to be used in marriage to strengthen local alliances.
: She put up with Waltheof. But after he was beheaded for treason, she resisted William's plot to marry her off to Simon St. Liz de Senlis... and fled, in spite of being left 'temporarily' destitute and stripped of titles.
: De Senlis went on to become her eldest daughter's -- Maud -- first husband. But it was Maud's second husband -- David I of Scotland -- who ''ultimately'' became Earl of Huntingdon in her right.[[#Burke|Burke]][[#Weber|Weber]]After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King William offered the hand of his niece Judith, to a noble Norman named, Simon St. Liz. Judith rejected the alliance, and upset the Conqueror. Displeased by her refusal, William immediately seized her dower which included the castle and honour of Huntingdon.
Consequently, she and her daughter were left in a state of privation and obscurity in the Isle of Ely and elsewhere, while William gave Simon St. Liz the town of Northampton and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at £40 per annum, to provide shoes for his horses. (Burke; Dugdale)
===Titles===
* Judith of Lens, Countess of Huntingdon and Northumbria[[Wikipedia: Judith of Lens]]Husband's right
===Parents===
: Lambert II, Count of Lens and Adelaide of Normandy
===Marriage and Issue===
: m. 1070 Waltheof, Earl Huntingdon and Northumbria. Issue: 3}Waltheof's profile says they had 2 dau.
* Maud m.2 David I of ScotlandEarl of Huntingdon in wife's right
Burke states that St. Liz was disappointed at being unable to marry the Countess of Huntingdon, but that he had better luck with with her elder daughter, Maud. Once they married, King William conferred the Earldoms of Huntingdon and Northamptonupon upon Simon de St. Liz.
* Adelise m. Raoul III de ConchesConches' sister Godehilde m. Baldwin I of Jerusalem.
== Source ==
* Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. I p. 277-278, Vol. V page 489
* Burke, Bernard. ''[[Space:A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct, Peerages of the British Empire|A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct, Peerages of the British Empire]]'' (Harrison, London, 1866) (pp. 467-8)
* Dugale
* Weber, J. (n.d.) The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest. Rootsweb.com
* ''[[Space:Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton|Reports and Papers]] of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton'' (Savill and Edwards, London, 1850) Vol. 1, [https://archive.org/stream/reportspapersofa01asso#page/236/mode/1up Page 236]
=== Footnotes ===
Events
| Birth | Abt May 1054 | Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France | |||
| Marriage | Jan 1070 | Waltheof "Earl of Northumberland" Huntington | |||
| Death | Abt 1090 | Fotheringay, Northamptonshire, England | |||
| Alt name | Boulogne | ||||
| Reference No | 1035054 | ||||
| Reference No | |||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Spouse | Waltheof "Earl of Northumberland" Huntington (1046 - 1076) |
| Child | Uctred "of Tynedale" FitzWaltheof (1070 - 1152) |
| Child | Maud "Queen Maud of Scotland, Maud of Northumberland" Huntingdon (1074 - 1131) |
| Child | Judith Huntingdon (1074 - 1112) |
| Child | Adelise "Alice of Northumberland" Huntingdon (1074 - 1126) |
| Father | Lambert Boulogne II (1022 - 1054) |
| Mother | Adelais Normandie (1035 - 1096) |