Ancestry of
Button Gwinnett

Signer of the Declaration of Independence

Waltheof II of Northumbria

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• • 22nd Great-grandfather of Button Gwinnett — 25th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 18721418 
  • Father:
  • Sigurd of Northumbria 
  • Mother:
  • AElfflaed of Bernicia   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1050 
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  • Death Date:
  • 31 May 1076 
  • Death Location:
  • Winchester, Hampshire, England 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Judith of Lens
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1070 
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  Maud of Northumberland (Ahnentafel No:9360709 )

  Alice of Northumberland

  • Notes: 

  • Earl of Northumbria

    Waltheof was beheaded for his alleged part in a revolt against William the Conqueror.

• Sources for Waltheof II of Northumbria

  • ¹ American Society of Genealogists, The Genealogist, Rockport, Maine: Picton Press, 1989, Vol. 10, No. 1, p. 4.
  • ² Browning, Charles H., Americans of Royal Descent: A Collection of Genealogies of American Families Whose Lineage is Traced to . . ., 2nd Ed., Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1891), 159.
  • ³ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. III, pp. 196, 365, 410, 548, 554.
  • ⁴ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. IV, pp. 226, 329, 403.
  • ⁵ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. I, p. 210, 266, 271.
  • ⁶ Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson (2013), Vol. V, pp. 151, 471.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 562-569.
  • ⁸ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 919.
  • ⁹ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 126.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia, "Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria", _Earl_of_Northumbria, (accessed 02/23/2010).
  • ¹¹ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 192, 428.