Maud of Huntingdon

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Maud of Huntingdon (* probably 1071/74; † between April 30, 1130 and April 22, 1131) was an important English heiress, Countess of Huntingdon in her own right , and Royal Consort of the Scottish King David I.

Life

Maud was the daughter of Waltheof II , Earl of Northumbria , who was executed in 1076 , and Judith von Lens , a niece of William the Conqueror . Her father was the last of the great Anglo-Saxon earls who remained in office after the Norman conquest of England in 1066; he was the son of Siward, Earl of Northumbria , and a biological cousin of the Scottish King Malcolm III.

Between 1087 and 1090 she married Simon I de Senlis († 1111/13). After the marriage he was appointed Earl of Huntingdon and Earl of Northampton , probably not de iure uxoris , since the office of his father-in-law, who was executed in 1076, must have been forfeited by his rebellion against William the Conqueror, but because of a new appointment, so that he afterwards Incumbent in his own right. He signed a certificate in favor of Bath Abbey from 1090 with "Earl Simon".

In 1113 she married David of Scotland († 1153); she must have been almost 40 years old and at least 10 years older than him at the time. Thanks to her, David came into possession of huge estates known as the "Honor of Huntingdon". They comprised land from South Yorkshire to Middlesex , the vast majority of which was in Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire , Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire counties . In 1124 David became King of Scotland.

The “Honor of Huntingdon” should have gone to Maud's son Simon II. De Senlis , but he was still a minor when his father died. The title of Earl and the Honor of Huntingdon was thus entrusted to the future King of Scotland. Even after Simon II came of age and after the death of his mother, he could not take over his inheritance because David kept it under his control. Simon's claims were still not taken into account: Stephen of Blois , King of England since 1135, even recognized his half-brother Henry of Scotland , the son of David and Maud, as successor in the Earldoms in the Treaties of Durham of 1136 and 1139 . It was not until the summer of 1141, when diplomatic relations with Scotland were broken, that he took possession of part of his estate as Earl of Northampton.

progeny

Three children are known from her first marriage to Simon I. de Senlis:

From her second marriage to David I of Scotland, she had the following children:

  • Malcolm (* probably 1114, † probably 1116/17)
  • Heinrich (* probably 1115, † 1152), Earl of Northumberland, Earl of Huntingdon
  • Claricia († young)
  • Hodierna († young)

Maud died in 1130/31, according to John Fordun she was buried in Scone Abbey .

literature

  • Frank Barlow: William Rufus. University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 9780300082913 .
  • GWS Barrow : David I (c.1085-1153). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • Keith Stringer: Senlis, Simon (II) de, earl of Northampton and earl of Huntingdon (d. 1153). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ordericus Vitalis (Edition Prévost, Volume III, Book VIII, XXII, p. 402) reports that both owned the Earldoms together
  2. ^ Stringer
  3. ^ Stringer
  4. ^ Stringer
  5. ^ Stringer
  6. ^ EB Fryde, DE Greenway: Handbook of British chronology. Cambridge University Press, 1996, p. 474
  7. ^ Rosalind Kay Marshall: Scottish queens, 1034-1714. Dundurn Press Ltd., 2003, p. 16
predecessor Office successor
Waltheof Countess of Huntingdon
1076-1130 / 31 		Henry of Scotland
Sybilla of Normandy Queen Consort of Scotland
1124–1130 / 31 		Ermengarde de Beaumont
personal data
SURNAME Maud of Huntingdon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English heiress, Countess of Huntingdon, Royal Consort of the Scottish King David I.
DATE OF BIRTH around 1071
DATE OF DEATH between April 30, 1130 and April 22, 1131