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- BIOGRAPHY
Maud was born about 1074, the daughter of Waltheof, earl of Northumberland, Huntingdon and Northampton, and 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, no doubt due to the fact that Judith of Lens was a niece of William 'the Conqueror'.
About 1090 Maud was married to Simon de St.Liz, son of the Norman Raudoul 'le Riche'. Before the end of that year Simon received the earldom of Huntingdon (including Northampton) from William Rufus, king of England, probably in right of his wife. Maud and Simon had three known children, of whom Maud and Simon would have progeny.
Simon died in 1099, and about Christmas 1113 Maud married Dabid mac Máil Choluim, David I 'the Saint', who became king of Scots in 1124, the son of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada, Malcolm III Canmore, king of Scots, and St. Margaret of Wessex. She and David had four children of whom Henry would have progeny.
Maud died in 1130 or 1131, and was succeeded to the earldom of Huntingdon by her son Simon. However in 1135 the earldom was bestowed on his half-brother Henry, as well as the promise of the earldom of Northumberland, as the price of peace after Henry's father King David penetrated into England as far as Durham on the side of the Empress Matilda.
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