Waltheof of Bamburgh

• Preferred Name: Waltheof of Bamburgh ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• SEIGE+OF+DURHAM: 1006 in Durham, England at LATI: N4.7643 LONG: E1.571 with note: Description: Malcolm II beseiged Durham in 1006, Waltheof, being elderly, shut himself within his walls and did nothing, as did the other lords. Waltheof's son Uchtred rallied the men of the area and repelled Malcolm's forces
  
• Death: AFT 1006 in Bamburgh Castle, Bamburgh, Northumberland, England at LATI: N5.6304 LONG: E1.7248 with note: was alive in 1006 when King Ethelred II awarded ealdormanry of Bamburgh to his son Uhtred (Removed incorrect reference to UK)
  
• FATHER:+Ealdred,+son+of+Osulf: with note: Description: De Northumbria post Britannos says that Osulf had a son named Ealdred, father of Waltheof of Bamburgh (fl. 994), father of Uhtred of Northumbria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osulf_I_of_Bamburgh#Death_and_legacy
  
• Birth: BEF 950 in Bamburgh Castle, Northumbria, England at LATI: N5.6304 LONG: E1.7248 with note: Exact year of birth is not known (Removed incorrect reference to UK)
  
• DISPLACED+BY+SON+UCHTRED: 1006 in Northumbria, England at LATI: N4.6325 LONG: E2.3516 with note: Description: Following his decisive victory, King Æthelred promoted Uchtred to Ealdorman of all Northumbria, replacing his elderly father. This was not a punitive action, but a necessary one. At his 'advanced age' Waltheof was no longer capable of defending the area, a strong presence was needed. Waltheof remained alive, had the action been a punishment, Waltheof would have been executed and replaced.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Bernicia
  
• NOT+THE+SAME+AS+: with note: Description: Waltheof of Northumbria, Saint Waltheof of Melrose, Waltheof of Allerdale, Waltheof of Inverkeithing and Dalmeny, or Waltheofl of Dunbar. who are all his descendants
  
• FSID: L8WY-72D
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  This is WALTHEOF OF BAMBURGH, high-reeve / ealdorman of Bamburgh. NOT THE SAME AS Waltheof of Northumbria!
  
  Waltheof of Bamburgh was high-reeve or ealdorman of Bamburgh (fl. 994 and died after 1006). He may have been son or grandson of Osulf I and was father of Uhtred the Bold, Ealdorman of Northumbria. His name is Scandinavian and implies that he had Viking ancestors.
  
  'De Northumbria post Britannos' says that Osulf had a son named Ealdred, father of Waltheof of Bamburgh (fl. 994), father of Uhtred of Northumbria.
  
  The name 'Waltheof' remained in his family when Earl Siward married his great-granddaughter and named his son Waltheof. This son of Siward became Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and one of his descendant being Saint Waltheof of Melrose.
  
  Additionally, another branch of the family would use the Waltheof name including: Waltheof of Allerdale who was son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. Waltheof of Inverkeithing and Dalmeny was son of Cospatric, and grandson of Waltheof of Allerdale. Another descendant of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria was Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar.
  
  In 1006 Malcolm II of Scotland invaded Northumbria and besieged the newly founded episcopal city of Durham. At that time the Danes were raiding southern England and King Ethelred was unable to send help to the Northumbrians. Ealdorman Waltheof was too old to fight and remained in his castle at Bamburgh. Ealdorman Ælfhelm of York also took no action. Waltheof's son Uhtred, acting for his father, called together an army from Bernicia and Yorkshire and led it against the Scots. The result was a decisive victory for Uhtred. Local women washed the severed heads of the Scots, receiving a payment of a cow for each, and the heads were fixed on stakes to Durham's walls. Uhtred was rewarded by King Ethelred II with the ealdormanry of Bamburgh even though his father was still alive.
  
  IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT HE IS NOT THE SAME AS:
  - Waltheof of Northumbria
  - Saint Waltheof of Melrose
  - Waltheof of Allerdale
  - Waltheof of Inverkeithing and Dalmeny
  - Waltheof of Dunbar
  
  Who are all descendants of Waltheof of Bamburgh
  
  - from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltheof_of_Bamburgh
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osulf_I_of_Bamburgh#Death_and_legacy
  
  === !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
  !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition L 34-20. Earl of Northumberland.
  
  === Aka ===
  "Siward Cadwulf Cadel", ""Walter" Singleton"

1. Uhtred of Bamburgh, b. 971 in Bernicia, Northumbria, England.     d. 1016 in Wighill, Yorkshire, England

1. Title: Wikipedia - The History of Bamburgh Castle
   Author: Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1280155)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 17 June 2018. Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1280155)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 5 December 2007. "Bernaccia (Bryneich / Berneich)". The History Files. Retrieved 18 June 2018. 'An English empire: Bede and the early Anglo-Saxon kings' by N. J. Higham, Manchester University Press ND, 1995, ISBN 0-7190-4423-5, ISBN 978-0-7190-4423-6 The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, entry for 547. Hope-Taylor, pp. 292-293 Nennins. "History of Britain, 8th Century" . Retrieved 17 June 2018 . "Vikings invade Bamburgh Castle". Northumberland Gazette. 4 June 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2018. "Bamburgh Castle". Castles, forts and battles. Retrieved 17 June 2018. "Bamburgh Castle". Historic England. Retrieved 17 June 2018. "Sir John Forster". Find a grave. Retrieved 17 June 2018. Todd, John M. (2004). "Oldcoates , Sir Philip of (d. 1220)" ((subscript
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamburgh_Castle;
   Note: Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building.[2] The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from its foundation in c. 420 to 547. After passing between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons three times, the fort came under Anglo-Saxon control in 590. The fort was destroyed by Vikings in 993, and the Normans later built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. After a revolt in 1095 supported by the castle's owner, it became the property of the English monarch. Built on a dolerite outcrop, the location was previously home to a fort of the indigenous Celtic Britons known as Din Guarie[3] and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia, the realm of the Gododdin people,[4] from the realm's foundation in c. 420 until 547, the year of the first written reference to the castle. In that year the citadel was captured by the Anglo-Saxon ruler Ida of Bernicia (Beornice) and became Ida's seat.[5] The castle was briefly retaken by the Britons from his son Hussa during the war of 590 before being retaken later the same year.[6] In c. 600, Hussa's successor Æthelfrith passed it on to his wife Bebba, from whom the early name Bebbanburh was derived.[7] Vikings destroyed the original fortification in 993.[8] The Normans built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. William II unsuccessfully besieged it in 1095 during a revolt supported by its owner, Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria. After Robert was captured, his wife continued the defence until coerced to surrender by the king's threat to blind her husband.[9] Bamburgh then became the property of the reigning English monarch. Henry II probably built the keep as it was complete by 1164.[10] Following the Siege of Acre in 1191, and as a reward for his service, King Richard I appointed Sir John Forster the first Governor of Bamburgh Castle.[11] Following the defeat of the Scots at the Battle of Neville's Cross in 1346, King David II was held prisoner at Bamburgh Castle.[9] During the civil wars at the end of King John's reign, the castle was under the control of Philip of Oldcoates.[12] In 1464 during the Wars of the Roses, it became the first castle in England to be defeated by artillery, at the end of a nine-month siege by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, the "Kingmaker", on behalf of the Yorkists.[13] Archaeological excavations were started in the 1960s by Brian Hope-Taylor, who discovered the gold plaque known as the Bamburgh Beast as well as the Bamburgh Sword.[24] Since 1996, the Bamburgh Research Project has been investigating the archaeology and history of the Castle and Bamburgh area. The project has concentrated on the fortress site and the early medieval burial ground at the Bowl Hole, to the south of the castle.[25] During excavations at the Bowl Hole between 1998 and 2007, the remains of 110 individuals from the 7th and 8th century were discovered in that graveyard. Finally, in 2016, they were moved into the crypt of St Aidan's Church, Bamburgh; the crypt can be viewed by visitors through a small gate.[26]
   
2. Title: Wikipedia
   Author: Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England; 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 1971.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltheof_of_Bamburgh;
   
3. Title: Waltheof in 'The Siege of Durham'
   Publication: Name: http://www.dot-domesday.me.uk/durham.htm#:~:text=The%20Siege%20of%20Durham%20%E2%80%9CIn%20the%20year%20from,of%20the%20Northumbrians,%20invested%20Durham%20with%20a%20siege.%E2%80%9D;
   Note: Symeon of Durham records: ".... and Waltheof, who was earl of Northumbria, had shut himself up in Bamburgh. For he was of extreme age, so that he could display no valour against the enemy.”* In this context, the term Northumbria refers only to the northern province of Northumbria, governed from Bamburgh. Waltheof's son, Uhtred, “a youth of great vigour and the highest military aptitude”, who was, at this time, married to Bishop Ealdhun's daughter: “... seeing that the land was ravaged by the enemy and Durham invested by a siege, and that his father did nothing to prevent it, united the army of the Northumbrians and of the men of York [i.e. the southern province of Northumbria] in no small band; and slew nearly the whole host of the Scots, while their king scarce escaped with a few by flight. And the heads of the slain, ornamented as was the fashion at that time with braided hair, he caused to be conveyed to Durham; and caused them to be well washed by four women, and set on stakes around the walls. And to each of the women who had washed them they gave a cow as wage.... durham01 .... When King Æthelred heard these things he called to him the aforesaid youth and, although his father Waltheof still lived, for the merit of his vigour and for the war which he had so manfully carried through he gave him his father's earldom, adding to it also the earldom of York.”
   
4. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy -WALTHEOF. Earl of Northumbria
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLAND,%20AngloSaxon%20nobility.htm#UhtredNorthumbriadied1016A;
   Note: Chapter 5. NORTHUMBRIA 1. OSWULF, son of --- (-after 954). "Osulf dux" subscribed charters of King Æthelstan in 934 (four) and 937[404]. Simeon of Durham records that "Earl Osulf" received the earldom of the Northumbrians in 953[405]. King Eadred installed him in 954 as Earl of Northumbria, after the expulsion of King Erik "Blodøks/Blood-axe". Simeon of Durham in a later passage records that King Eadred appointed "Earl Osulf" who administered Northumbria "on the north side of the Tyne"[406]. He ruled the English lands north of the river Tees from Bamburgh[407]. 2. OSLAC, son of --- (-after 972). Earl of Northumbria. Simeon of Durham records that King Eadred appointed "Earl Osulf" who administered Northumbria "on the north side of the Tyne" while "Oslac" ruled "York and its territories"[408]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records that "Oslac became earl [of Northumbria]" in 966[409]. "Oslac dux" subscribed charters of King Edgar dated from 963 to 974[410]. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle names "ealdorman Oslac" among those who were present at an agreement in 972 which confirms the property of the monastery of Medeshamstede[411]. 1. WALTHEOF. Earl of Northumbria. Simeon of Durham records that "the elder Walthef" succeeded Oswulf and Oslac in Northumbria[412]. "Wæltheof dux" subscribed a charter of King Æthelred II dated 994[413]. m ---. The name of Waltheof's wife is not known. Waltheof & his wife had two children: a) UHTRED (-murdered 1016). Simeon of Durham records that "his son Uchtred" succeeded "the elder Walthef" in Northumbria, stating that he was killed by "a powerful Dane Thurbrand surnamed Hold with the consent of Cnut"[414]. Earl of Northumbria. - see below. b) EADULF Cudel (-after 1016). Simeon of Durham records that "his brother Eadulf Cutel" succeeded in Northumbria after "Uchtred" was murdered[415]. Roger of Hoveden names him as brother of Uhtred, whom he succeeded as Earl of Northumbria, installed by King Canute[416]. Simeon of Durham's Account of the Siege of Durham names "his brother Eadulf surnamed Cudel, a lazy and cowardly fellow", when recording his succession as earl after his brother's murder and his transfer of Lothian to Scotland[417].
   
5. Title: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Author: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p221.htm#i6623;
   Note: Father Oswulf I, Earl of Northumbria, 3rd Lord of Bamburgh d. 965 Waltheof I, Earl of Northumbria died after 994 at Bamborough, Northumberland, England. Family Child Uchtred, Earl of Northumberland+ b. 989, d. 2 Dec 1016
   
6. Title: Family Tree of Eadwulf from De Northumbria post Britannos
   Author: https://www.academia.edu/10247408/%C3%86lla_and_the_Descendants_of_Ivar_Politics_and_Legend_in_the_Viking_Age?pop_sutd=true Ælla and the Descendants of Ivar: Politics and Legend in the Viking Age 2015 Neil McGuigan Pre- print of Neil McGuigan, ‘Ælla and the Descendants of Ivar: Politics and Legend in the Viking Age’, Northern History 52.1 (March, 2015), pp. 20 – 34.Final published version available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/0078172X14Z.00000000075
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/137068969;
   Note: Identifies Ealdred as the son of Oswulf, high-reeve of Bamburgh; as the father of Waltheof 'dux' (fl 994) and the grandfather of Uhtred and Eadwulf Cudel
   Page: Identifies Waltheof 'dux' as the son of Ealdred and the father of Uhtred and Eadwulf Cudel, also the grandson of Oswulf and great-grandson of Eadwulf; was fl 994
   
7. Title: Waltheof of Bamburgh From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   Author: Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England; 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 1971.
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltheof_of_Bamburgh;
   Note: Waltheof was high-reeve or ealdorman of Bamburgh (fl. 994). He may have been son or grandson of Osulf I and was father of Uhtred the Bold, Ealdorman of Northumbria. His name is Scandinavian and implies that he had Viking ancestors. The name 'Waltheof' remained in his family when Earl Siward married his great-granddaughter and named his son Waltheof. This son of Siward became Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria, and one of his descendant being Saint Waltheof of Melrose. Additionally, another branch of the family would use the Waltheof name including: Waltheof of Allerdale who was son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria. Waltheof of Inverkeithing and Dalmeny was son of Cospatric, and grandson of Waltheof of Allerdale. Another descendant of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria was Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar. In 1006 Malcolm II of Scotland invaded Northumbria and besieged the newly founded episcopal city of Durham. At that time the Danes were raiding southern England and King Æthelred was unable to send help to the Northumbrians. Ealdorman Waltheof was too old to fight and remained in his castle at Bamburgh. Ealdorman Ælfhelm of York also took no action. Waltheof's son Uhtred, acting for his father, called together an army from Bernicia and Yorkshire and led it against the Scots. The result was a decisive victory for Uhtred. Local women washed the severed heads of the Scots, receiving a payment of a cow for each, and the heads were fixed on stakes to Durham's walls. Uhtred was rewarded by King Æthelred II with the ealdormanry of Bamburgh even though his father was still alive. Sources Stenton, Sir Frank M. Anglo-Saxon England; 3rd edition. Oxford University Press, 1971. Waltheof 4 at Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England Regnal title: Ruler of Bamburgh fl. 994 Preceded by: Eadwulf Evil-child Succeeded by: Uhtred the Bold
   
8. Title: Legacy NFS Source: Lord of Bamburgh Earl of Bernicia Waltheof -
   Author: Stirnet.com, Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Name: http://www.stirnet.com;, Page number: Swinton01
   Note: Peter Barns-Graham, Chairman, Stirnet.com (http://www.stirnet.com).
   Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:3246398939
   
9. Title: Wikipedia -Waltheof of Bamburgh in the record of Osulf I of Bamburgh
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osulf_I_of_Bamburgh#Death_and_legacy;
   Note: Osulf (fl. 946—54) was high-reeve of Bamburgh and ruler of Northumbria. Sometimes called "earl", he is more surely the first recorded high-reeve of Bamburgh and the man who, after assisting in the death of its last independent ruler Erik Bloodaxe, administered the York-based Kingdom of Northumbria when it was taken over by the Wessex-based King Eadred of England in 954. Death and legacy Little else is known about Osulf's period in power. The Chronicle of the Kings of Alba says that in the time of Indulf (King of Scots from 954 to 962), Edinburgh was abandoned to the Scots, though nothing is said about the involvement of Northumbrians or Osulf.[17] The date of Osulf's death is not known. He was probably dead before 963, as that is the date Oslac appears for the first time as ealdorman in York.[18] It is unclear whether Oslac was related to Osulf.[19] According to the De primo Saxonum adventu, Northumbria was divided into two parts after Osulf's death.[20] De Northumbria post Britannos says that Osulf had a son named Ealdred, father of Waltheof of Bamburgh (fl. 994), father of Uhtred of Northumbria.[21]
   Page: De Northumbria post Britannos says that Osulf had a son named Ealdred, father of Waltheof of Bamburgh (fl. 994), father of Uhtred of Northumbria.