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From: (Stewart Baldwin)
Subject: Re: Uchtred again (apologies in advance)
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 03:26:40 GMT
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On 18 Sep 2001 11:54:32 -0700, (Alastair)
wrote:

>apologies for revisting what, after a quick search, is obviously a
>well trodden path, but I just re-registered for this soc, after a few
>years away from dear old Deja. What I'm looking for is proof one way
>or another that Waltheof II of Huntingdon is or isn't the same as
>Waltheof of Tyndale. Seems to me that as Earl of Northumbria he would
>also have been Lord of Tyndale, but I'm sure there's a vital piece of
>evidence I'm missing, and I'd be extremely grateful if someone could
>point me in the direction of that evidence.

Waltheof of Tynedale is mentioned very briefly (as father of Uchtred,
husband of Bethoc) in Anderson's "Early Sources of Scottish History",
vol. 2, p. 182. No suggestion is made there that Waltheof of Tynedale
may have been the same as the earl of Northumbria, and the two
Waltheof's were indexed separately, suggesting that Anderson regarded
them as two different individuals. The sources cited for Waltheof of
Tynedale are Scot's Peerage, vol. 1, pp. 416-7, and Joseph Bain,
Calendar of Documents relating to Scotland, vol. 1, no. 2287. I
suggest that those sources be examined for what information they might
provide.

Stewart Baldwin


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