Stephen Longespée

• Preferred Name: Stephen Longespée^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: L2LX-K7H
  
• Birth: ABT 1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.0687 LONG: E1.794
  
• Occupation: Seneschal of Gascony1255/1257 in Duchy of Gascony, France at LATI: N3.977 LONG: E0.176 with note: Wikipedia bio
  
• Burial: JUN 1260 in Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.419 LONG: E2.1188
  
• LdsEndowment: 28 FEB 1935 in SLAKE - Salt Lake Temple at LATI: N0.7701 LONG: E111.8921 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Seneschal of Gascony
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Salisbury
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Earl of Ulster
  
• Death: ABT 1260 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N2.5766 LONG: E0.3819 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Justiciar of Ireland, Senior official in charge of administration1259/60 in Dublin, Leinster, Ireland at LATI: N3.3333 LONG: E6.25 with note: Wikipedia bio
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  "Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury:
  ii. STEPHEN LONGESPÉE, Knt., of King's Sutton, Northamptonshire, Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire, Stokes, Oxfordshire, and Wanborough, Wiltshire, Seneschal of Gascony, Justiciar of Ireland, Constable of Bourg-sur-Mer (in Gironde), Corfe, and Sherbome Castles, and, in right of his wife, of Corrofin, co. Mayo and Kilkea and Tirsteldermot, co. Connacht, Ireland, 2nd son. He witnessed a charter for Baldwin III, Count of Guisnes, in 1241. The same year he acknowledged he owed Richard Basset a debt of 20 marks. He married between 8 Feb. 1242/3 and 16 Dec. 1244 EMELINE DE RIDELISFORD, widow of Hugh de Lacy, 1st Earl of Ulster (died 1242), and daughter and co-heiress of Walter de Ridelisford, of Bray, Admekin (or Headford), Corofin, and Tristledermot (or Casdedermot), Ireland, by his wife, Armor. They had two daughters, Ela and Emeline. In 1243/6 he witnessed a charter of his cousin, Richard, Earl of Cornwall, to Shaftesbury Abbey. In 1247 he was pardoned a debt of £33 and a half mark by Licoria wife of David of Oxford the Jew. He presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire in 1247. He took the cross in 1250. In 1251 he had a dispute with the Prior of St. Swithun's concerning lands in Hyneton. In 1255 he went to Gascony with Edward the king's son. In 1258 he was granted wardship of the land and heirs of his late brother-in-law, Walter Fitz Robert, by Edward the king's son for 3,000 marks. At some undetermined date, he was a benefactor of St. Giles Priory at Flamstead, Hertfordshire. SIR STEPHEN LONGESPÉE died testate shortly before 25 June 1260, and was buried at Lacock Priory, Wiltshire. In 1262 his widow, Emeline, conveyed one messuage, various lands, and pasture for eight cattle in Purscaule, Dorset to Juliane, Abbess of Shaftesbury. Emeline subsequently erected a chapel at Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1270, and endowed it for the maintenance of two chaplains. In 1274-5 Hugh le Mouner arraigned an assize against her touching a pond levied in Denford, Berkshire. In the same period, Agnes daughter of Walter le Clere arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against her touching a tenement in King's Sutton, Northamptonshire. Emeline, Countess of Ulster, died between 18 May 1275 and 19 July 1276. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1(1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 443, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory records). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., v (Book of Lacock: "Stephanus Lungespee sub rege H. iii. Justiciarius in Hybernia et Dominus capitalis erat ordinatus. Duxit in uxorem Emelinam Comitissam de Ulton, per quam erat Comes de Ulton; genuit ex ea (1) Elam de la Souch, quam duxit Rogerus de la Souch, de qua Alarms de la Souch, qui duxit in uxorem Alianoram filiam Nicholai de Segrave, de qua genuit Elam, Matildam, Elizabetham; Rogerum de la Souche, (2) Emelinam, quæ nupsit Mautitio filio Mauritii."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Waylen Hist. Military & Municipal of the Town (otherwise called the City) of Marlborough (1854): 98. Byron Antiqs. of Shropshire 5 (1857): 240 (Lacy ped). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463 ([The Magdalen College Coll. at Oxford University includes] five [deeds] by Stephen Longespée, twelve [by his wife] the Countess, and five by her daughter Emelina. The seals are in many instances remarkable for their beauty; those of Stephen Longespée have in some instances the 'Long Sword'; those of his wife are of two types; one, the ‘secretum,’ a lion rampant, with a tree as a crest; the other ‘sigillum,’ a full length female figure, wiuth the 'Long Sword' and three leopards' faces on either side; her daughter Emeline uses a seal of more elaborate and varied design, retaining the female figure and adding the motto: - ‘Folest ki me brisera, Force li a ki la lettre va'."). Cal. Docs. Rel. Ireland 1 (1875): 387, 401, 403, 407, 413, 429-431, 439, 449, 460 (Stephen Longespée styled "king's cousin and a crusader" in 1250); 2 (1877): 5-6, 16-17, 23, 36 (styled "king's cousin"), 51-52, 64, 69, 75, 97-98, 100, 103, 105-106, 108, 137-138. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 82, 256. Gilbert Chartularies of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin 2 (Rolls Ser. 80) (1884): 315 (Annals of Ireland sub A.D. 1243: "Obiit Hugo de Lacy, Comes Ultonie, et sepelitur apud Cragfergous in conventu Fratrum Minorum, relinquens filiam heredem, quam desponsavit Walterus de Burgo, qui fait Comes Ultonie."), 316 (Annals of Ireland sub 1260: "obiit Stephanus de Longa Spata."). Francisque-Michel Roles Gaseous 1 (1885): 178, 467 (Stephen Longespée styled "kinsman" [consanguineus] by King Henry III in 1254). Notes & Oueries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 60, 234. Orpen Song of Dermot & the Earl (1892): 285. Wiltshire Notes & Queries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Delaborde Jean de Joinville et les Seigneurs de Joinville (1894): 329. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 126. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Jour. Galway Arch. & Hist. Soc. 1(1900): 168-183. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 31 (1901): 367; 82 (1952): 45-61. Notes & Queries for Somerset & Dorset 9 (1905): 310-311. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 211 (Stephen Lungespe styled "king's kinsman"), 303, 416, 454. VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 13, 49, 209. English Hist. Rev. 26 (1911): 317-326. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 293, 510. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire 1195-1291 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 236. C.C.R. 1259-1261 (1934): 61, 79. Cal. Liberate Rolls 3 (1937): 124. C.P. 11(1949): 381-382 footnote k (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 168-171 (sub Ulster). Lamborn Armorial Glass of the Oxford Diocese (1949): 97-101 (arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lioncels gold a label gules), (Riddlesford arms: Silver six scallop shells sable). Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 59, 136-138. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 46-61. Holt Pipe Roll of the Bishopric of Winchester 1210-1211 (1964): XXXVii. Cuttino Gascon Reg. A 2 (1975): 489-494. Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14-15. London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 84, 114, 169. Rogers Lacock Abby Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 78. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée). Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 86. Butterill "Cartulary of Flamstead Priory (St.Giles-in-the-Wood), Hertfordshire" (M.A. thesis, Univ. of Manitoba) (1988): 17 (citation kindly provided by Linda Jack). Cooper Oxfordshire Eyre 1241 (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 56) (1989): 69. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 264 (his arms: Azure, six lions rampant or, a canton ermine). Online resource: http://www.briantimms.net/rolls_of_arms/rolls/gloversB2.htm (Glover's Roll dated c.1252 - arms of Stephen Longespée: Azure six lions rampant or a label gules).
  Child of Stephen Longespée, Knt., by Emeline de Ridelisford:
  a. EMELINE LONGESPÉE, 2nd daughter, born about 1252 (aged 24 in 1276). She married (as his 2nd wife) before 24 July 1276 MAURICE FITZ MAURICE, Knt., Justiciar of Ireland, 1272-3, son and heir of Maurice Fitz Gerald, 2nd Baron of Offaly in Ireland, Justiciar of Ireland, by his wife, Juliane. He was born about 1238. They had no issue. He married (1st) shortly before 28 October 1259 (date of dispensation to remove impediment to marriage) MAUD DE PRENDERGAST [see PRENDERGAST 8], born about 1242, widow successively of David Fitz Maurice (died 1249) and Maurice de Rochford (died 1258), and daughter and coheiress of Gerald de Prendergast (died 1251), of Beauvoir (or Carrigaline) and Ballacha in Orrery, co. Cork, Ireland, by his 2nd wife, ___, daughter of Richard de Burgh, lord of Connacht, Justiciar of Ireland [see PRENDERGAST 7 for her ancestry]. By his 1st wife, Maud de Prendergast, he had two daughters, Juliane (wife of Thomas de Clare, Knt., lord of Thomond in Connacht [see BADLESMERE 8]) and Amabil. He obtained lands in Connaught by feoffment of his father. In 1259 he was granted Athlone Castle and the shrievalty of Connaught. In 1260 he succeeded in plundering the O'Donnells, but was defeated in an expedition against Conor O'Brian at Coill-Berrain in Munster. He was summoned to England in 1262. In 1264 he was ordered to secure the Irish lands of the young Earl of Gloucester. In 1264 he took the justiciar, Thebaud le Boteler (or Butler), and John Cogan prisoners. He was twice granted letters of protection to England in 1266. In 1272 or 1273 he led another expedition against Brian Ruadh O'Brien. In 1276-7 Maurice and his wife, Emeline, brought an assize of novel disseisin against Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex, and others regarding a tenement in Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire. In 1277 he accompanied his son-in-law, Thomas de Clare, against Brian Ruadh O'Brien, King of 'Thomond; Brian was taken prisoner and beheaded. SIR MAURICE FITZ MAURICE died testate shortly before 2 Sept. 1277. In 1292 his widow, Emeline, sued Thomas Fitz Maurice for the manor of Killorglin, co. Kerry, Ireland, which she claimed as her right by the gift of Christina de Marsh who previously had enfeoffed her and Maurice her late husband; the defendant vouched to warranty Gilbert de Clare, minor son and heir of Thomas de Clare. His widow, Emeline, was a legatee in the 1294 will of her uncle, Nicholas Longespée, Bishop of Salisbury. In 1298-9 she had a suit with John de Inteberge about lands at Kilcaly, near L
  
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  BIO: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#WilliamLongespeedied12491250 as of 5/28/2016
  STEPHEN Longespee (-bur Lacock Abbey). The Book of Lacock names “Guillelmus Longe
  
  === Stephen Longespee, himself son of Willia ===
  Stephen Longespee, himself son of William Longespee Earl of Salisbury (illegitimate son of Henry II). [Burke's Peerage]
  
  Justiciar of Ireland.
  
  === http://www.familylore.org/index.php?title=Stephen_Longespee ===
  Stephen Longespee
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  Stephen Longespee
  Title/Occupation: Justicar of Ireland
  
  Education:
  
  Born: ,
  Died: 1260,
  Buried:
  
  Mother: Ela, Countess of Salisbury
  Father: William Longespee
  Siblings:
  Spouse: Emaline de Ridelisford, joined in marriage 1243/44
  Issue: Ela Longespee
  
  Notable
  Of Sutton, co. Northhampton, and Wanborough, co. Wilts
  
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   d. 19 JUL 1276 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England

• m. 8 FEB 1243 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

1. Ela De Longespee, b. 1244 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 10 JUL 1276 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England, United Kingdom

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5. Title: Stephen Longespee, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-GRJR : 11 January 2022), Stephen Longespee, ; Burial, Lacock, Wiltshire Unitary Authority, Wiltshire, England, Lacock Abbey; citing record ID 16690945, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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