of Huntingdon, Matilda
1072 - 1131 (58 years)-
Name of Huntingdon, Matilda [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Birth 2 Jul 1072 Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England 
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Appointments / Titles Between 2 Jul 1072 and 1113 Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] 2nd Countess Christening 1080 Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland [2, 3, 11, 12, 13] Gender Female Appointments / Titles 1124 Scotland [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Queen Nickname Maud FSID L8M6-YWJ [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Death 23 Apr 1131 Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] Burial Aft 23 Apr 1131 Scone Abbey, Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14] Person ID I32069 The Thoma Family Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Father Siwardsson, Waltheof of Northumbria, b. 1050, Wallsend, Northumberland, England d. 31 May 1076, St Giles Hill, Hampshire, England (Age 26 years) Relationship natural Mother of Lens, Countess of Lens Judith, b. May 1054, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. 1090, Lens, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France (Age 35 years) Relationship natural Marriage 1070 [1, 2, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19] Family ID F12336 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family 1 of Scotland, King David I, b. 31 Dec 1080, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland d. 24 May 1153, Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 72 years) Marriage 1113 Scotland Family ID F12515 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
Family 2 de Senlis, Earl Simon, b. 1068, Normandy, France d. 1111, La Charité, Nièvre, Bourgogne, France (Age 43 years) Marriage 1087 [1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] Children 1. de Senlis, Matilda, b. 1091, Northamptonshire, England d. 1158, Belvoir Castle, Belvoir, Leicestershire, England (Age 67 years) [natural]Family ID F12335 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 20 Sep 2023
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Event Map 
Birth - 2 Jul 1072 - Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England 
Appointments / Titles - 2nd Countess - Between 2 Jul 1072 and 1113 - Huntingdon, Huntingdonshire, England 
Christening - 1080 - Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland 
Marriage - 1113 - Scotland Appointments / Titles - Queen - 1124 - Scotland 
Death - 23 Apr 1131 - Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland 
Burial - Aft 23 Apr 1131 - Scone Abbey, Old Scone, Perthshire, Scotland = Link to Google Earth
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Notes - Maud, or Matilda, was the queen consort of King David I of Scotland. She was the great-niece of William the Conqueror and the granddaughter of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Her parents were Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his Norman wife Judith of Lens. Her father was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Her mother was William the Conqueror's niece. Through her ancestors, the Counts of Boulogne, Maud also was a descendant of Alfred the Great and Charles the Bald, and a cousin of Godfrey of Bouillon.
Maud married Simon de Senlis (or St Liz) in about 1090. Earlier, her great-uncle William the Conqueror had tried to get Maud's mother, Judith, to marry Simon. Simon received the honour of Huntingdon (whose lands stretched across much of eastern England) probably in right of his wife from William Rufus before the end of the year 1090. Maud and Simon had three known children: Matilda of St Liz (Maud), who married first, Robert Fitz Richard of Tonbridge, and second, Saer De Quincy; Simon of St Liz; and Saint Waltheof of Melrose.
Maud's first husband Simon died sometime after 1111, and Maud next married David, the brother-in-law of Henry I of England, in 1113. Through this marriage, David gained control over Maud's vast estates in England to add to his own lands in Cumbria and Strathclyde. David and Maud had four children (two sons and two daughters): Malcolm, who died young; Henry; Claricia, who never married; and Hodierna, who also never married.
In 1124, David became King of Scots. Maud's two sons by different fathers, Simon and Henry, would later vie for the Earldom of Huntingdon.
Maud died in 1130 or 1131 and was buried at Scone Abbey in Perthshire, but she appears in a charter of dubious origin dated 1147.
Maud of Huntingdon appears as a character in Elizabeth Chadwick's novel "The Winter Mantle" (2003), as well as Alan Moore's novel "Voice of the Fire" (1995) and Nigel Tranter's novel "David the Prince" (1980).
- Maud, or Matilda, was the queen consort of King David I of Scotland. She was the great-niece of William the Conqueror and the granddaughter of Siward, Earl of Northumbria. Her parents were Waltheof, the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Huntingdon and Northampton, and his Norman wife Judith of Lens. Her father was the last of the major Anglo-Saxon earls to remain powerful after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. Her mother was William the Conqueror's niece. Through her ancestors, the Counts of Boulogne, Maud also was a descendant of Alfred the Great and Charles the Bald, and a cousin of Godfrey of Bouillon.
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