BOULOGNE, Countess Judith

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• Name	BOULOGNE, Judith
  Prefix	Countess
  Birth	May 1054	Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	1086	Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England
  WAC	6 Sep 1933	SLAKE
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  Person ID	I44576	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Father	BOULOGNE, Count Lambert de ,   b. 3 Sep 1028, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Franced. 12 Mar 1054, Lille, Nord, France (Age 25 years)
  Mother	PONTHIEU, Countess Adelaid ,   b. 1029, Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Falaise, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, Franced. 1090, Aumale, Seine Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1053	Normandy, France
  Notes	MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married , Normandy, France.
  Family ID	F16148	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	NORTHUMBERLAND, Earl Waltheof ,   b. 1045, Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, Englandd. 31 May 1076, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 31 years)
  Marriage	1070	Boulogne, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  Children	2 daughters
  + 1. HUNTINGTON, Queen Mathilda ,   b. 2 Jul 1072, Northumberland, England Northumberland, Englandd. 23 Apr 1131, Scone, Perthshire, Scotland (Age 58 years)   2. HUNTINGDON, Adelise de ,   b. Abt 1075, Flamstead, Hertsfordshire, England Flamstead, Hertsfordshire, Englandd. 1126, Flamstead, Hertsfordshire, England (Age 51 years)
  Family ID	F15661	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Judith was a niece of William the Conqueror. She was a daughter of his sister Adelaide of Normandy, Countess of Aumale and Lambert II, Count of Lens. In 1070, Judith married Earl Waltheof of Huntingdon and Northumbria. They had three children. Their eldest daughter, Maud, brought the earldom of Huntingdon to her second husband, David I of Scotland. Their daughter, Adelise, married Raoul III de Conches whose sister, Godehilde, married Baldwin I of Jerusalem. In 1075, Waltheof joined the Revolt of the Earls against William. It was the last serious act of resistance against the Norman conquest of England. Judith betrayed Waltheof to her uncle, who had Waltheof beheaded on 31 May 1076. After Waltheof's execution Judith was betrothed by William to Simon I of St. Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton. Judith refused to marry Simon and she fled the country to avoid William's anger. William then temporarily confiscated all of Judith's English estates. Simon, later, married, as his second wife, Judith's daughter, Maud, as her first husband. Judith founded Elstow Abbey in Bedfordshire around 1078. She also founded churches at Kempston and Hitchin. She had land-holdings in 10 counties in the Midlands and East Anglia. Her holdings included land at: • Earls Barton, Northamptonshire • Great Doddington, Northamptonshire • Grendon, Northamptonshire • Merton, Oxfordshire • Piddington, Oxfordshire • Potton, Bedfordshire The parish of Sawtry Judith in Huntingdonshire is named after the Countess