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Emelina de Longespée
- Preferred Name: Emelina de Longespée[1] [2] [3]
- Gender: F
- LdsEndowment: 14 DEC 1972 with note: GEDCOM data
- Death: 19 MAY 1331 with note: Medieval Lands.
- LdsBaptism: 4 DEC 1934 with note: GEDCOM data
- Birth: 1252 in Downpatrick, Down, Ireland at LATI: N4.3269 LONG: E5.7113
- Christening: 1291
- Info 2: in Grand-Daighteer Of Walter de Ridelisford. Heiress Of Manors Of Kilkea And Castledermot.
- FSID: 2H61-422
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
From Medieval Lands (downloaded 10 August 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources):
EMMELINE Longespee ([1251/52]-19 May 1331). The Book of Lacock names “Elam de la Souch…Emelinam” as the children of “Stephanus Lungespee” and his wife “Emelinam comitissam de Ulton”, adding that Emmeline married “Mauritio filio Mauritii”[1878]. A writ dated 20 Jul "4 Edw I", following the death of "Emelina countess of Ulster" names "Emelina the wife of Maurice son of Maurice and daughter of the said countess aged 24 and more and Alan son of Roger la Zouche who had to wife Ela elder daughter of the said countess aged 8 are her heirs”[1879]. Inquisitions made after a writ dated 10 Apr "14 Edw II", after the death of "Thomas son of Richard de Clare", record land in Ireland "Kinsale...which Emeline late the wife of Maurice son of Maurice holds in dower”[1880]. A writ dated 23 May "5 Edw III", following the death of "Emelina Longespe or de Lungespe", names "Robert de Holond and Maud his wife” and “the said Maud aged 40 years is her next heir”, while a second writ dated 3 Jan “6 Edw III” and inquisitions dated 9 Mar “7 Edw III” state that Emmeline died “on Whitsunday 5 Edward III” and that “Maud sometime the wife of Robert de Houlond...and Helen her sister both aged 40 years and more are next heirs of the said Emelina”[1881]. m as his second wife, MAURICE Fitzmaurice, son of MAURICE FitzGerald Baron of Offaly & his wife Juliana --- (-1286).
?Descendant of William Longespee and Ella Fitz***?
Longespee was a nickname given him because of the length of his spear(s) and other weapons, and armaments. He was tall. Ella was b. abt 1189/90. They were married abt 1199 by King Richard of England,
She is a descendant of William Longespee and Ela FitzPatrick!
I had a few of the facts wrong in the above story but that was from memory. The missing connection was their 3rd son Stephen. He was a seneschal but I'm not even sure what that is yet. Emmaline was St
=== REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain Am ===
REF: Weis: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists 178-6.
=== !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
!BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
=== Emilia de Longspee was the daughter of S ===
Emilia de Longspee was the daughter of Stephen de Longspee and Emmaline de Ridelsford; son of William de Longspee, Earl of Salisbury, 1226, and Ela, daughter of William, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. son of King Henry II, King of England, and Rosamund Clifford, daughter of Walter Clifford.William de Longspee, grandfather of Emmaline, was a noted warrio. He built the Cathedral at Salisbury, and is buried there under a monumental effigy of a knight in armor.
=== !BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection ===
!BIRTH-DEATH: The Plantagenet Connection, April 1994 !DEATH: Diary and autobiography of Edmund Bohun, 1853 Royal Genealogies of Magna Carte Barons
=== !Turton's p. 6, 98, 120, 126 !NE Reg. Oc ===
!Turton's p. 6, 98, 120, 126 !NE Reg. Oct. 1962, p. 279
=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
Emeline de Longespée1
F, #4108
Emeline de Longespée||p411.htm#i4108|Stephen Longespée|b. 1216\nd. 1260|p411.htm#i4104|Emeline de Ridelsford|b. 1220\nd. bt 18 May 1275 - 19 Jul 1276|p411.htm#i4105|William Longespée, 1st Earl of Salisbury|b. bt 1160 - 1170\nd. 1226|p10461.htm#i104601|Ela, Countess of Salisbury|b. c 1187\nd. 24 Aug 1261|p10461.htm#i104603|Walter de Ridelsford||p411.htm#i4107||||
Last Edited=18 Aug 2005
Emeline de Longespée is the daughter of Stephen Longespée and Emeline de Ridelsford. She married Sir Maurice fitz Maurice , son of Maurice fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly and Juliane (?) .1
Children of Emeline de Longespée and Sir Maurice fitz Maurice
Annabel FitzMaurice 1
Juliana FitzMaurice + b. c 1249, d. c 1300
Citations
[S6 ] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VII, page 200. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
=== Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna ===
Source: Weis, Sheppard, Beal, The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215, 5th Ed., Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, [1999], 144-3.
=== note ===
pg 151, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists etc" by Frederick Lewis Weiss, 6th Edition
pg 168, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883
Please tell me about ANY errors, as this data base is constantly improving. If the name you want is not in this data base, I don't have it.
=== !Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Editio ===
!Ancestral Roots by Weis, Seventh Edition Lines 31-27, 178-6
=== !GENERAL:Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colon ===
!GENERAL:Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To Ne w England Between 1623 And 1650 _PAREN: Y, Ancestral Roots Of Sixty Colonists Who Came To N ew England Between 1623 And 1650 _PAREN: Y, Weis, Frederick Lewis, Genealogical Publishing C o. Inc., 1992
=== L Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees PP 43, 38 ===
L Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees PP 43, 38
=== !Name,Bd,pla,parents,Bap,End,SP-IGI,adde ===
!Name,Bd,pla,parents,Bap,End,SP-IGI,addendum States End as pre 1970 Bpl also listed as Sutton,North,Eng
=== Co-heiress of her father. ===
Co-heiress of her father.
=== Seal to Parents: 7 DEC 1991 JRIVE- Jord ===
Seal to Parents: 7 DEC 1991 JRIVE- Jordan River, UT
Ancestral File Number: FSLG-9F
=== !DESCENT: Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal ===
!DESCENT: Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, at 354 (1992).
Family 1: Maurice FitzMaurice FitzGerald 3rd Lord of Offaly, b. 1218 in County Wexford, Ireland d. 10 NOV 1286 in Ross, County Clare, Ireland
Sources:
- Title: The Medieval Lands Project, "EMMELINE Longespee"
Author: fmg.ac
Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#EmelineLongespeeMMauriceFitzmaurice;
Note: EMMELINE Longespee ([1251/52]-19 May 1331). The Book of Lacock names “Elam de la Souch…Emelinam” as the children of “Stephanus Lungespee” and his wife “Emelinam comitissam de Ulton”, adding that Emmeline married “Mauritio filio Mauritii”[1878]. A writ dated 20 Jul "4 Edw I", following the death of "Emelina countess of Ulster" names "Emelina the wife of Maurice son of Maurice and daughter of the said countess aged 24 and more and Alan son of Roger la Zouche who had to wife Ela elder daughter of the said countess aged 8 are her heirs”[1879]. Inquisitions made after a writ dated 10 Apr "14 Edw II", after the death of "Thomas son of Richard de Clare", record land in Ireland "Kinsale...which Emeline late the wife of Maurice son of Maurice holds in dower”[1880]. A writ dated 23 May "5 Edw III", following the death of "Emelina Longespe or de Lungespe", names "Robert de Holond and Maud his wife” and “the said Maud aged 40 years is her next heir”, while a second writ dated 3 Jan “6 Edw III” and inquisitions dated 9 Mar “7 Edw III” state that Emmeline died “on Whitsunday 5 Edward III” and that “Maud sometime the wife of Robert de Houlond...and Helen her sister both aged 40 years and more are next heirs of the said Emelina”[1881]. m as his second wife, MAURICE Fitzmaurice, son of MAURICE FitzGerald Baron of Offaly & his wife Juliana --- (-1286).
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Emeline De Longespee -
Author: Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, 106th Edition, Charles Mosley {1999}, Page number: 1679
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736742367
- Title: Legacy NFS Source: Emeline De Longespee -
Author: Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Ed {1999}, Page number: 144-3
Note: Source Media Type: Book
Page: Migrated from user-supplied source citation: urn:familysearch:source:2736741136
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