Biography of Maud Queen Consort Scotland 1074-1131

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Maternal Family Tree: Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu 1030-1089

In 1070 [her father] Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and [her mother] Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon (age 16) were married. She by marriage Earldorman Northumbria, Countess Huntingdon. She, Judith, a niece of King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 42). She the daughter of [her grandfather] Lambert Flanders II Count Lens and [her grandmother] Adelaide Normandy Countess Troyes and Meaux Champagne Aumale Ponthieu (age 40). He the son of [her grandfather] Siward "Stout" Earl of Northumbria and [her grandmother] Aelfflaed Northumbria.

Around 1074 Maud Queen Consort Scotland was born to [her father] Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and [her mother] Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon (age 20).

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On 31st May 1076 [her father] Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon was beheaded at St Gile's Hill, Winchester. His daughter Maud (age 2) succeeded 2nd Countess Huntingdon, 2nd Countess of Northampton.

After 1086 [her mother] Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon (deceased) died.

Around 1090 Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 16) were married. She the daughter of Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon.

Around 1095 [her son] Walteof Senlis was born to [her husband] Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 21).

Around 1098 [her son] Simon Senlis 4th Earl Huntingdon 4th Earl of Northampton was born to [her husband] Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 24). He married in or before 1138 Isabel Beaumont Countess Huntingdon and Northampton, daughter of Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amice Gael Countess Leicester, and had issue.

In 1111 [her husband] Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon died.

After 1111 King David I of Scotland (age 27) and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 37) were married. He by marriage Earl Huntingdon. She the daughter of Waltheof Northumbria 1st Earl of Northampton 1st Earl Huntingdon and Judith Flanders Countess Huntingdon. He the son of King Malcolm III of Scotland and Margaret Wessex Queen Consort Scotland.

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Around 1114 [her son-in-law] Robert de Clare (age 50) and [her daughter] Maud Senlis were married. She the daughter of [her former husband] Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 40). They were half third cousin twice removed.

In 1114 [her son] Henry Dunkeld 3rd Earl Huntingdon 1st Earl of Northumbria was born to [her husband] King David I of Scotland (age 30) and Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 40). He married before 1139 his half sixth cousin Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria, daughter of William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey, and had issue.

In 1116 [her sister-in-law] Mary Dunkeld Countess Boulogne (age 34) died.

On 1st May 1118 [her sister-in-law] Edith aka Matilda Dunkeld Queen Consort England (age 38) died at Westminster Palace [Map]. She was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map].

On 23rd April 1124 [her brother-in-law] King Alexander I of Scotland (age 46) died. His brother [her husband] David (age 40) succeeded I King Scotland. Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 50) by marriage Queen Consort Scotland.

In 1131 Maud Queen Consort Scotland (age 57) died. Her son [her son] Henry (age 17) succeeded 3rd Earl Huntingdon, 3rd Earl of Northampton. [her future daughter-in-law] Ada Warenne Countess Huntingdon and Northumbria (age 11) by marriage Countess Huntingdon.

On 24th May 1153 [her former husband] King David I of Scotland (age 69) died at Carlisle, Cumberland [Map]. His grandson [her grandson] Malcolm (age 12) succeeded King Scotland.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

St Andrew's Priory, Northampton [Map] was a Cluniac Priory founded around 1093 by Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and his wife Maud Queen Consort Scotland. A sister house Delapré Abbey was founded for nuns at the same time.

[her daughter] Maud Senlis was born to Simon Senlis 1st Earl of Northampton, Earl of Huntingdon and Maud Queen Consort Scotland. She married (1) Saer Quincy and had issue (2) 1114 her half third cousin twice removed Robert de Clare and had issue.