Judith of Lens 
Judith of was born in 1054 in Lens, Artois, France. Judith of's father was Lambert of Boulogne , Count of Lens and her mother was Adelaide of Normandy , Countess of Aumale. Her paternal grandparents were Eustace I Count of Boulogne and Mahaut (Maud) de Louvain; her maternal grandparents were Robert I "The Magnificent" Duke of Normandy and Herleve (Arlette) de Falaise. She had two half-brothers named Stephen Count de and Piers (Peter) de. She died after 1086.General Notes
He [Waltheof] married, in 1070, Judith, daughter of Lambert, COUNT OF LENS, by Adelaide or Adeliz, sister of the Conqueror. He died as aforesaid, 31 May 1076, and a fortnight later the Abbot Ulfketel, at Judith's request and by the King's permission, removed his body to Crowland, where it was honourably entombed.(g) His widow, who as "Judith the Countess" is recorded in Domesday Book to have held estates in many counties in 1086, most of them apparently gifts from the King, her uncle, held Huntingdon in dower. She founded the Nunnery of Elstow, near Bedford. [Complete Peerage VI:638-40, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
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After the execution of Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon, King William offered Judith, his niece, the deceased earl's widow, in marriage to Simon St. Liz, a noble Norman, but the lady peremptorily rejected the alliance, owing, Dugdale says, to St. Liz's halting in one leg, which refusal so displeased the Conqueror that he immediately seized upon the castle and honour of Huntingdon, which the countess held in dower, exposing herself and her dau. to a state of privation and obscurity in the Isle of Ely and other places, while he bestowed upon the said Simon St. Liz the town of Northampton and the whole hundred of Falkeley, then valued at £40 per annum, to provide shoes for his horses. St. Liz thus disappointed 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 conferred upon the said Simon de St. Liz, the Earldoms of Huntingdon and Northampton. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 467-8, St. Liz, Earls of Huntingdon]
NOTE: The parentage of Judith of Lens has come under critical study since the early 1970's, when Enguerrand II was thought by some to be her father. The currently acceptable parentage among most scholars is as stated, i.e., Lambert of Boulogne. [Roderick W. Stuart, Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD, 1998]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0922 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.0971
- b.~ 0950 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.~ 0990
- b.~ 0976 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1024
- b.~ 0950 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France
- b.~ 1004 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1049
- b.0938 in Egmond-Binnen, Netherlands d.05 Jun 0988
- b.0961 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.18 Sep 0993 in Slain at Egmond-Binnen, Netherlands
- b.~ 0938 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium d.10 Apr 0990
- b.~ 0985 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium
- b.~ 0922 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d.15 Aug 0998
- b.0963 in Kleve, Nordrhein-Westphalia, Germany d.14 May 1005
- b.~ 0933 in Luxemburg d.13 Dec 0992
- b.~ 1022 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1054 in Slain-battle of Lille at Bataille de Lille, Flanders
- b.~ 0890 in Lorraine, France d.0932
- b.~ 0928 in Hainault, Belgium d.0973 in Bohemia, Czech Republic (in exile)
- b.~ 0903 in Bourgogne, France
- b.~ 0950 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium d.12 Sep 1015 in Battle of Florennes
- b.~ 0903 in Louvain, Brabant, Lorraine, France
- b.~ 0929 in Louvaine, Brabant, Lorraine, France d.0961
- b.~ 1004 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium
- b.10 Sep 0921 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.10 Sep 0954 in Rheims, Marne, France
- b.0953 in Laon, Aisne, Picardy, France d.21 May 0994 in Kerker, Orleans, France
- b.0913 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Prussia d.05 May 0984 in Rheims, Marne, France
- b.~ 0975 in Lower Lorraine, France d.27 JAN 1017/18
- b.0932 in Lorraine, France d.03 Sep 1005
- b.~ 0962 in Ardenne, France
- b.0937 in Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.1054 in Lens, Artois, France d.> 1086
- b.~ 0891 in Rouen, Normandy, France d.17 Dec 0942 in killed at Picardy, France
- b.28 Aug 0933 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.20 Nov 0996 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.~ 0911 in Bretagne, France d.~ 0972
- b.~ 0959 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.28 Aug 1026 in Fecamp, Seine-Inferieure, France
- b.0911 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France
- b.~ 0942 in Arque, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.1031 in France
- b.0923 in Sweden
- b.~ 0999 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.02 Jul 1035 in Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey (on pilgrimage to Jerusalem)
- b.~ 0910 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.0970
- b.~ 0950 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.29 Jun 0992 in killed
- b.~ 0925 in France
- b.~ 0982 in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France d.16 Jun 1017 in Normandy, France
- b.11 Nov 0938 in Anjou, France d.21 Jul 0987
- b.~ 0952 in Anjou, France d.27 Jun 0992
- b.~ 0950 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.08 Apr 0976
- b.< 1030 in Normandy, France d.< 1090
- b.0978 in Falaise, Clavados, France
- b.~ 1003 in Falaise, Calvados, France d.1050
- b.0980 in France
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Judith of and Waltheof II Earl of Huntingdon & were married in a religious ceremony in 1070 in 1st husband. They had two daughters named Matilda de and Alice de.
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Children
Matilda de Huntingdon
Matilda de was born in 1072 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England. She died at the age of 59 on April 23rd, 1131 in Scotland.
Alice de Huntingdon
Alice de was born about 1077 in Huntington, Huntingdonshire, England. She died after 1126.
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