LENS Judith

Abt 1054 - Abt 1090  (35 years)

• Name	LENS Judith
  Birth	Abt May 1054	Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
  Gender	Female
  Death	Abt 1090	Fotheringay, Northamptonshire, England
  Notes	Judith of Lens was the daughter of Lambert, Count of Lens and Alice of Normandy (sister of King William the Conqueror).[1] Her mother was Adelaide of Normandy, the sister of William the conqueror. Adelaide was married three times: Enguerrand of Ponthieu, lord of Aumale Lambert, count of Eu, brother of Eustace of Boulogne Eudo of Champagne Judith has traditionally been seen as daughter of the second husband Lambert, as she is described this way in one source, but in recent times Enguerrand is sometimes considered a serious contender. According to Williams for example, "The Vita Waldevi makes Judith Lambert's daughter, but she may have been the child of Enguerrand of Ponthieu".[2] (The idea seems to go back to Thomas Stapleton, who however eventually changed his mind back to Lambert.[3]) Husbands and child She was married about 1070 to Earl Waltheof.[4] The fact that she was such an important Norman heiress, shows that King William wanted the services of the man who she was given to in marriage, the Anglo-Saxon earl Waltheof. His family had been Earls in Bamburgh, and even under the Normans they held a large fief which largely in Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire and Leicestershire in the midlands, extending east into Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and south into Bedfordshire.[2] Waltheof was executed for treason in 1076, for being part of the so-called revolt of the Three Earls. Keats-Rohan writes that "Judith was one of his accusers, but after his death she arranged for him to be honorably buried at Crowland abbey".[4] Complete Peerage notes in a footnote that there is a tradition that the King had first assigned the Countess Judith to him as wife to Simon St Liz, later her daughter's husband, "and on her refusal (on account of Simon’s lameness) gave him ]udith’s counties. ]udith fled for hiding to the Ely marches, taking her daughters with her".[5] Marriage and Issue m. 1070 Waltheof, Earl of Bamburgh. Issue: Maud had issue from two husbands, a saint, an earl and a king. m.1 Simon of St Liz (or Senlis) m.2 David I King of Scotland Adelise m. Raoul III de Conches[6] Sources ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham. (Salt Lake City, UT: the author, 2013), vol. III, page 233, HARRIS. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Williams, Ann (1995) The English and the Norman Conquest p.58 ↑ Stapleton Magni rotuli Scaccarii Normanniae p.xxxi ↑ 4.0 4.1 Keats-Rohan, "Judita Comitissa" in Domesday People, p.286 ↑ Cockayne, Gibbs et al., Complete Peerage, 2nd ed., Vol.6 "Huntingdon", p.640 footnote "h". ↑ Conches' sister Godehilde m. Baldwin I of Jerusalem. See also: Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. I p. 277-278, Vol. V page 489 Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct, Peerages of the British Empire (Harrison, London, 1866) (pp. 467-8) Dugdale Weber, J. (n.d.) The Phillips, Weber, Kirk, & Staggs families of the Pacific Northwest. Rootsweb.com Reports and Papers of the Architectural and Archaeological Societies of the Counties of Lincoln and Northampton (Savill and Edwards, London, 1850) Vol. 1, Page 236
  Person ID	I59183	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	PONTHIEU Enguerrand,   b. Bef 1025   d. 25 Oct 1053, Arques, Normandie (Age > 28 years)
  Relationship	Stepchild
  Mother	NORMANDIE Adelais,   b. Bef 1035, Falaise Castle, Falaise, Basse-Normandie, France d. Bef 1096, Gournay Sur Marne, Seine Saint Denis, Ile De France, France (Age < 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1048
  Family ID	F26628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Father	BERLOGNE Lambert,   b. 1022, France d. Aug 1054, Lille, Flandre (Age 32 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	NORMANDIE Adelais,   b. Bef 1035, Falaise Castle, Falaise, Basse-Normandie, France d. Bef 1096, Gournay Sur Marne, Seine Saint Denis, Ile De France, France (Age < 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F26319	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	HUNTINGTON Waltheof,   b. 1046, Northumberland, England d. Abt 31 May 1076, St. Giles Hill, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age 30 years)
  Marriage	Aft Jan 1070
  Children	1. HUNTINGDON Maud,   b. Abt 1074, England d. Aft 1147, Scotland (Age > 74 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026