Waltheof was high-reeve

High-reeve

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 or ealdorman

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 of Bamburgh

Bamburgh

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 (fl.

Floruit

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 994). He was the son of Osulf I. His name is Scandinavian and implies that he had Viking ancestors. It remained in his family when Earl Siward married his great-granddaughter and named his son Waltheof. This son of Siward became Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria. Nothing is known about Waltheof's period in office.

Sources

• Stenton, Sir Frank M.
  Frank Stenton
  Sir Frank Merry Stenton was a 20th century historian of Anglo-Saxon England, and president of the Royal Historical Society . He was the author of Anglo-Saxon England, a volume of the Oxford History of England, first published in 1943 and widely considered a classic history of the period...
  
   Anglo-Saxon England; 3rd edition. Oxford University Press
  Oxford University Press
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  , 1971.