Judith of Lens

Judith of Lens ( * 1054 in Normandy; † after 1086 ) was a niece of William the Conqueror. She was the daughter of his sister Adelheid, Countess of Aumale, and Count Lambert of Lens from the house Boulogne.

In 1070, Judith Earl Waltheof of Huntingdon and Northumbria married. 1075 Waltheof joined the Revolt of the Earls against King William in. After the collapse of the rebellion Waltheof was beheaded in 1076. After the execution of her husband by her uncle with Judith I. Simon of St. Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton was betrothed; However, Judith refused the marriage and fled the country, whereupon Wilhelm Judith's possession confiscated, which was mainly in the Midlands and East Anglia, including Earls Barton, Great Doddington, Grendon and Potton.

Judith and Waltheof had three daughters, the eldest of whom, Maud, the Earldom zuführte her second husband, King David I of Scotland.