282 HUNTERCCMBE — HUNTINGDON. Uuntcumbe " is subscribed to tlie famous letter^ 1 ) to the Pope in 1301. He hi. firstly about 127i"i Isabel. rla. and coheir of Hugh dk BotSBEC, Sheriff of Northumberland (who (/. 1262), by Theojihania, his wife. He m. secondly Ellen. He d. s.p. 11312-13), 6 Ed. II., when the tlamny became extinct.!* 1 ) His widow KviBg (1313-1 P. 7 Ed. II. HUNTINGDON [county of.] | " In tin; decline of tlio Saxon ".overnmeiit, this county I > -- a • I an officiary Eail named Shvahd,( c ) for Earldoms were not yet hereditary in England but the Gnrernnrs of Shires were, according to the custom of that period, called Eurli, with the additional title of the Shires they prc.-i led over, as this Siward, while Governor here, was called EARL OK HUNTINGDON, but afterwards, having the government of Northumberland conferred upon him, was called EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND." See " Camden." This Siward took part in the overthrow of Macbeth, King of Scotland, his eldest Bon being slain at Dunsinane. He d. before 1066.] Earldom. Waltheoit, only surv. s. and h. of Sivaiu>,(') Governm- T. 1072 ot Northumbrian 1 ) by Klfleda, da. of ALDRED, a former Governor ' thereof ; was b. about 1015 ; sue. his father in 105.",, and holding landsat Conington, ftc, CO. Huntingdon, besides having considerable influence in the Midland and Northern counties, was made Governor of Northnmbria about 1065 and was granted about 107 2 the marriage of Judith, da. aud h. of(') Lambert, Count ok Lens, in Artois, by Adiliza (to whom Lambert was second husband) sister, ess parte malerini, to King William I. by whom he was made (or confirmed) EARL OF HUNTINGDON and EARL OK NORTHAMPTON. He, however, joined in the conspiracy to turn th-i Normans out of England aud. tho' he submitted himself to the King, was beheaded it Winchester 31 May 1075. He was bur. there but subsequently removed to Croybuid Abbey. He d. a.p.m. His wife, the Countess Judith, mentioned in Domesday, survived him.( f ) II. 1080 ! 1. Simon Saint Lis, or Senlis, 2d s. of Randal Lis to RICH, a Norman Knight, having been, by the favour of the King, 1 109 ? designed to have received themarriageof Judith, (s) widow of Waltheof, Eaiil ok Huntingdon, &e., abovenamed, was (notwithstanding her rejection of him) cr. EARL OK HUNTINGDON and EARL OF f») See full account thereof in "Nieoliu," pp. 761- 800. (•>) His nephew, Nicholas Newbaud, then aged 30, s. and h. of his sister, Gunnora, was his heir. ( e ) The grandfather of this Earl Siward, according to "the monk of Jervaulx," was a Bear who " seized upon " the " one only da." of " a noble Earl of the Blood Royal in Denmark" and "ravished her, by which rape she brought forth a son that had ears like a Bear who was thereupon called Berne and sue. in that Earldom in his Mother's right." Siward himself, son of this Enrl Berne, was of " a giant-like stature " aud (besides slayiug one drat/on and seeking to slay another) lauded in England and slew a man (one, too, of some eminence), viz., Tosti, the Saxon Earl of Huntingdon, whose inheritance he received from King Edward the Confessor. He was subsequently made Governor of all the territory north of the Humbcr up to the Tweed. (See " Dugdalc," i, p. 4.) Earl Siward (/. 1055. ( a ) Brooke, under the " Earls of Northumberland " speaks of Waltheof as " somie of Syward, the great Earl of North' 1 .," but omits any mention of the said Syward in his " Catalogue " of those Earls. Viucent, accordingly, sarcastically remarks thereon that " It seems he was so r/rcat that there was no room for him in this catalogue." (°) See tabular pedigree in vol. i, p. 54, note " a," ub " Albemarle." (0 She is said to have plotted her husband's death, wishing a new alliance, but to have rejected her husband's successor Simon Saint Liz [<xio was lame) who there- upon married her da. aud coheir as stated in the text. (8) See note "f " next above as to his having been rejected by Earl Waltheofs widow.
