The Battle Abbey roll : with some account of the Norman lineages. London: J. Mur...

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The Battle Abbey roll : with some account of the Norman lineages. London: J. Murray, 1889; Visitation of Cornwall, Vivian ed., 1887, p.105 Digital Image (Statue); second son; Waltheof may have been born about 1050, and it was later believed that Siward intended him to rule north of the Tees. The death in battle in 1054 of a much older brother, Osbearn, made Waltheof his father's heir, but too young to succeed as earl of Northumbria when Siward himself died in 1055.

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