Waltheof, Waldeve or Waldef is a masculine name of

Old English Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...

origin and it survives in present-day as the name

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. Its original meaning is uncertain. It may refer to: * Waltheof of Bamburgh (died after 1006), Waltheof I, Earl of Northumberland 963–995 *

Waltheof II, Earl of Northumbria Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria ( enm, Wallef, on, Valþjóf) (died 31 May 1076) was the last of the Anglo-Saxon earls and the only English aristocrat to be executed during the reign of William I. Early life Waltheof was the second son of Siwa ...

(died 1076), 11th-century Earl of Northumberland *

Waltheof of Melrose Waltheof ( – 1159) was a 12th-century English abbot and saint. He was the son of Simon I of St Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton and Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, thus stepson to David I of Scotland, and the grandson of Waltheof, Earl of N ...

(died 1159), Anglo-Saxon abbot and saint *

Waltheof, Earl of Dunbar Waltheof (died 1182), Earl of Lothian or "Dunbar" and lord of Beanley, was a 12th-century Anglo- Scottish noble. He was the eldest son of Gospatric III, Earl of Lothian by his Scottish wife Deirdre. Waltheof's grandfather Gospatric II died at t ...

(died 1182), 13th-century Earl of Dunbar *

Waltheof of Allerdale Waltheof of Allerdale was an 11th- and 12th-century Anglo-Saxon noble, lord of Allerdale in modern Cumbria. Brother of Dolfin of Carlisle and Gospatric of Dunbar, Waltheof was son of Gospatric, Earl of Northumbria.Hamilton, ''Mighty Subjects'', p ...

, 11th- and 12th-century Anglo-Saxon lord of Allerdale * Sheffield Park Academy, previously Waltheof School, Sheffield

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