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- Name Suffix: Jarl of Northumbria
The evidence as to the existence of a pre-Conquest Earldom of Huntingdonis scanty. When Harthacnut in 1041 ordered the city of Worcester to beravaged as punishment for the slaying of two of his huscarls by thecitizens, among those who took part in the expedition was TURI, styledEarl of the Middle English. That he was Earl of Huntingdon appears by anotification to him and others of the county made by King Harthacnut andÆlfgiva his mother concerning the gift of Hemmingford to the Abbey ofRamsey (1036-1042). Later (1042-1050) Edward the Confessor confirmed thisgift by a notification to Turi the Earl and others. Turi is supposed byFreeman to have been succeeded by BEORN, but evidence is lacking; andHAROLD is said by Florence of Worcester to have held Huntingdon with hisEast Anglian Earldom in 1051, just before the banishment of the Godwinfamily. SIWARD, EARL OF Northumberland, appears to have held itimmediately afterwards, being addressed as Earl in a charter of KingEdward which may be dated 1050 to 1052. He married Ælfled, daughter ofAldred of Bernicia. He died in 1055, when, his surviving son Waltheofbeing too young, the Earldoms of Northumberland and Northampton werebestowed on Tostig, brother of Harold and a favourite of the King, who isstyled Earl of Northampton in a royal confirmation of agreements betweenthe Abbey of Ramsey and those of Peterborough and Thorney, [c] andprobably held the Earldom of Huntingdon also until his banishment inOctober 1065. [Complete Peerage VI:637-8]
[c] The chroniclers relate a traditional story that his predecessor wasone Tosti, a Dane, who when on his way to visit the King insulted Siward;that Siward took no notice, but that on Tosti's return he cut off hishead, carried it to the King, and demanded the Earldom, for he had beenpromised the next dignity that fell to the King's hands.
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Came to England with the Danish invaders. [Roderick W. stuart, Royaltyfor Commoners, 3rd ed., Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore MD,1998]
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Abt 0990 - 1055 (65 years)
