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A History of the County of Durham
… Monkton, Hedworth, Hebburn, Westoe, and Harton. 88 Waltheof, earl of Northumberland, bestowed on them the church …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… to have been divided among three Saxon lords, of whom Earl Waltheof, who married Judith, niece of the Conqueror, was … the ground. The manor of Sheffield, after the execution of Waltheof at Winchester, for this conspiracy, in 1075, was …
A History of the County of York East Riding
… p. 16. Waltef derives from the Anglian personal name Waltheof: P.N.E.R. Yorks. 266. E.R.R.O., DDDA/19/1. Yorks. …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Another hide held in 1066 by Leofsige, a man of Earl Waltheof, had passed by 1086 to Picot the sheriff, who held …
A History of the County of Huntingdon
… castle site 'now held by Countess Judith,' 108 widow of Waltheof and niece of the Conqueror. During the civil wars in …
A History of the County of Northampton
… that Simon de Senlis became earl after his marriage with Waltheof's daughter Maud about 1089, and died on his return …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… in the Borough. These rights, presumably exercised by Waltheof's widow Judith in 1086, 17 were transmitted by her …
A History of the County of Durham
… to have acted as vicegerent to his aged father, Earl Waltheof. When the congregation set out to Ripon in the … the city of Durham, for it was through his friendship with Waltheof, the new Earl of Northumbria, that the castle came … which Canute had endorsed years before. When in 1075 Waltheof died, Walcher succeeded him as earl, and thus …
A History of the County of Durham
… The castle is recorded to have been built by Earl Waltheof about 1072, though some masonry in the Norman chapel is possibly of an earlier date. Waltheof's work was continued after his death in 1075 2 by … south-east angle, the lower portion of the newel stair of Waltheof's earlier buildings; there were also newel stairs at …
An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk
… celebrated his nuptials with great pomp at this city; 3 Waltheof, the great Earl of Northumberland, Roger Earl of … into a conspiracy against the the absent King; but Earl Waltheof having consulted his pillow, and perceiving the …