Earl Waltheof of Northumbria, who had participated in the Earls Revolt and then confessed it to Archbishop Lanfranc, was arrested on William's return to England and imprisoned at Winchester. Despite being married to William's niece Judith and having confessed voluntarily, he was convicted of treason at a great council in 1076 and beheaded at Winchester -- the only English earl executed during the entire Conquest. His tomb at Crowland Abbey became a site of popular veneration.
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