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Name Suffix:<NSFX> Countess Of Boulogne
Name Suffix:<NSFX> Countess of Boulogne
Name Suffix:<NSFX> [COUNTESS OF HUN
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> V9VB-5F
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After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King W
illiam offered Judith, his niece, the deceased earl's widow
, in marriage to Simon St. Liz, a noble Norman, but the lad
y peremptorily rejected the alliance, owing, Dugdale says
, to St. Liz's halting in one leg, which refusal so displea
sed the Conqueror that he immediately seized upon the castl
e and honour of Huntingdon, which the countess held in dowe
r, exposing herself and her dau. to a state of privation an
d obscurity in the Isle of Ely and other places, while he b
estowed upon the said Simon St. Liz the town of Northampto
n and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at Ð40 pe
r annum, to provide shoes for his horses. St. Liz thus diap
pointed in obtaining the hand of the Countess of Huntingdon
, made his addresses with greater success to her elder dau.
, the Lady Maud, who became his wife, when William conferre
d upon the said Simon de St. Liz, the Earldoms of Huntingdo
n and Northampton. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Fo
rfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., Londo
n, 1883, p. 467-8, St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon]
NOTE: The parentage of Judith of Lens has come under critic
al study since the early 1970's, when Enguerrand II was tho
ught by some to be her father. The currently acceptable par
entage among most scholars is as stated, i.e., Lambert of B
oulogne. [Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed
.,Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998]
After the execution ofWaltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King Wi
lliam offered Judith, his niece, the deceased earl's widow
, in marriage to Simon St. Liz, a noble Norman, but the lad
y peremptorily rejected the alliance, owing, Dugdale says
, to St. Liz's halting inone leg, which refusal so displeas
ed the Conqueror that he immediately seized upon the castl
e and honour of Huntingdon, which the countess held in dowe
r, exposing herself and her dau. to a state of privation an
d obscurity in the Isle ofEly and other places, while he be
stowed upon the said Simon St. Liz the town of Northampto
n and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at Ð40 pe
r annum, to provide shoes for his horses. St. Liz thus diap
pointed in obtaining the handof the Countess of Huntingdon
, made his addresses with greater success to her elder dau.
, the Lady Maud, who became his wife, when William conferre
d upon thesaid Simon de St. Liz, the Earldoms of Huntingdo
n and Northampton. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Fo
rfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., Londo
n, 1883, p. 467-8, St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon]
NOTE: The parentage of Judith of Lens has come under critic
al study since the early 1970's, when Enguerrand II was tho
ught by some to be her father. The currently acceptable par
entage among most scholars is as stated, i.e., Lambert of B
oulogne. [Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed
., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998]
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Name Suffix:<NSFX> Countess of Boulogne
Name Suffix:<NSFX> [COUNTESS OF HUN
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> V9VB-5F
Copyrighted but use freely for your self and families
Not to be sent to for profit company's
After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King W
illiam offered Judith, his niece, the deceased earl's widow
, in marriage to Simon St. Liz, a noble Norman, but the lad
y peremptorily rejected the alliance, owing, Dugdale says
, to St. Liz's halting in