Derived from Old English weald "power" and þeof "thief". This was the name of a 12th-century English saint, a stepson of King David I of Scotland.- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltheof_of_Bamburgh - ancestor of the 12th-century English saint, Waltheof of Melrose - Sheard, K. M. (2011). 'Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names', p. 582. "Waltheof ♂ Old English: weald "power" + theof "thief." As the name of a twelfth-century saint - a stepson of King David I of Scotland - it survived into Norman times, lasting until the seventeenth century in the North. Var: Waldeve." - http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=Waldie - Waltheof is the source of the Scottish and northern English surname Waldie (as well as several other English surnames). According to ancestry.com (citing The Dictionary of American Family Names, 2013), it is from Wælþeof, the Anglo-Scandinavian form of Old Norse Valþiófr which meant "one who snatches victory out of battle" from the elements val "battle" and þjófr "thief"(cf. http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Val%C3%BEj%C3%B3fr).(Information from name #203032 originally submitted by user LMS)
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waltheof_of_Bamburgh - ancestor of the 12th-century English saint, Waltheof of Melrose
- Sheard, K. M. (2011). 'Llewellyn's Complete Book of Names', p. 582. "Waltheof ♂ Old English: weald "power" + theof "thief." As the name of a twelfth-century saint - a stepson of King David I of Scotland - it survived into Norman times, lasting until the seventeenth century in the North. Var: Waldeve."
- http://www.ancestry.com/name-origin?surname=Waldie - Waltheof is the source of the Scottish and northern English surname Waldie (as well as several other English surnames). According to ancestry.com (citing The Dictionary of American Family Names, 2013), it is from Wælþeof, the Anglo-Scandinavian form of Old Norse Valþiófr which meant "one who snatches victory out of battle" from the elements val "battle" and þjófr "thief"(cf. http://www.nordicnames.de/wiki/Val%C3%BEj%C3%B3fr).
(Information from name #203032 originally submitted by user LMS)