of Lens · ◉ direct ancestor
♀Judith of Lens
Dates not yet known.
Judith of LensW was a noblewoman who became Countess of Huntingdon and Northampton as the wife of Earl Waltheof. She was the twenty-sixth great-grandmother of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through her daughter Maud of Huntingdon (about 1072 – 1130 or 1131).
Judith is said to have been the daughter of Lambert, Count of Lens, and of Adelaide of Normandy, a sister of William the Conqueror, which made her the king’s niece. She married Waltheof of Huntingdon, and their daughter Maud was born about 1072. Waltheof was beheaded on 31 May 1075, and Judith outlived him. The Complete Peerage reports that Simon de St. Liz was designed to receive her hand in marriage and that she rejected him; he married her daughter Maud instead.
Lines of descent
From Maud the line probably runs on to her descendant John Washburn (died 1547), and through his descendants, Mary Washburn among them, to Nancy Jane Blanchard.
Notes
Sources
Judith’s parentage is given in the Complete Peerage (2nd ed., vol. 1, 1910, pp. 351–352, under Aumale, with its pedigree), which cites a medieval life of St. Waltheof calling her a niece and the daughter of Count Lambert of Lens. Her marriage and title are given in the same work (1st ed., vol. 6, 1895, p. 67, under Northampton), and the matter of Simon de St. Liz in the first edition (vol. 4, p. 282, under Huntingdon). All of it is compiled, so the facts are worded as reports.
Maud’s descent
The line from Maud of Huntingdon down to John Washburn is given as probable in Maud’s own page. The step at John Washburn (died 1547) rests on the will of John Wassheburne of Bengeworth, dated 27 December 1546 and proved at Evesham on 15 June 1547, printed verbatim in Davenport, The Washbourne Family (1907).
Family time line
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Living at born at Normandy (infobox: 'Lens, Normandy') between 1054 and 1055 per Wikipedia, 'Judith of Lens' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Lens), opening sentence, per Wikipedia 'Judith of Lens', NO EVIDENCE YET |
abt 1054 | France | on record |
| Title (Nobility) Countess (wife of Earl Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton) (Complete Peerage, 1st ed., vol. VI NORTHAMPTON p.67) |
from a compiled source |
Sources
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (en.wikipedia.org) - articles on medieval royal and noble ancestors, read s1409 — Living at, about this person
- Cokayne, G. E., Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland ..., 1st ed., vol. 6, N to R (London: George Bell & Sons, 1895) — Title (Nobility), about this person, family with Waltheof of Huntingdon
- Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs, vol. 1, Ab-Adam to Basing (London: St Catherine Press, 1910) — about this person
Borders as they stood about 1500, from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.