Judith de Lens
- Born: 1054, Lens, Normandy, France 160
- Marriage: Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon 141,160
- Died: After 1086
 General Notes:
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 148:22-23, notes it appears that Judith was the daughter Adelaide by her first marriage to Enguerrand II, 98A:23, as niece of William the Conqueror, 130:25, married Waltheof II, Earl of Northumberland. 160
Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 141
Judith was the wife of Waltheof of Huntingon, and daughter of Lambert, Count of Lens and his wife, Adeliza, sister of William the Conqueror.
Judith was a witness at her husband's trial at Westminster. In the Domesday Survey, she is called "Judith the Countess," and ir recorded to have held estates in many counties in 1086, most of them likely gifts from her uncle, King William. She founded the Nunnery of Elstow, near Bedford.
~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, (Huntington), pp. 639, 640
Judith married Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon, son of Siward, Earl of Northumberland and Huntingdon and Ælfflaed of Bernicia 141.,160 (Waltheof Earl of Huntingdon was born before 1035 in Northumberland, England, died on 31 May 1076 in St. Giles Hill, Winchester, Hampshire, England 141 and was buried in Crowland.)
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