Ancestry of Colonel
Robert Gould Shaw

U.S. Civil War leader of film “Glory” fame

Waltheof II of Northumbria

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• • 26th Great-grandfather of Robert Gould Shaw — 29th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 376294546 
  • 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

  Alice of Northumberland (Ahnentafel No:188147273 )

  • 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 i s 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, p. 471.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd , The Royal Descents of 600 Immig rants to the American Colonies or the United States , 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 Amer ican Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition , Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004) , 126.
  • ¹⁰ Wikipedia , "Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria" , (accessed 02/23/2010).
  • ¹¹ Wurts, John S. , Magna Charta , New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942) , 192, 428.