Ela de Salisbury

• Preferred Name: Ela de Salisbury^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5]}
  
• Alternate Name: Ela de Salisbury
  
• Gender: F
  
• Burial: 1261 in Lacock Abbey, Lacock, Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.419 LONG: E2.1188 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Accomplishments: 1229 with note: Description: She founded Lacock Abbey Wikiwand: Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: The "suo jure" Countess of SalisburySucceeded to the title in 1196 upon the death of her father, William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury with note: Wikiwand: Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury
  
• FSID: KNQB-2Q2
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 3rd Countess of SalisburyBET 1196 AND 1261 with note: Medieval Lands.
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: 3rd Countess of Salisbury in Wiltshire, England at LATI: N1.3923 LONG: E2.0435
  
• Death: 24 AUG 1261 in Chippenham, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.45 LONG: E2.1167
  
• Occupation: Nun & Abbess of Lacock Abbey
  
• Birth: ABT 1187 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom at LATI: N1.1985 LONG: E1.743 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80.
  They had four sons,
  1. William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury],
  2. Stephen, Knt.,
  3. Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and
  4. Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury],
  and six daughters,
  5. Ida,
  6. Mary,
  7. Isabel,
  8. Ela,
  9. Ida (2nd of name), and
  10. Pernel.
  In 1191 he was granted the manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother, King Richard I. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King John, in 1199. In 1200 he witnessed the homage of William the Lion, King of Scots to King John at Lincoln. In 1202 he went on a diplomatic mission to France. In 1204 he escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the king. In 1206 he was in the escort of William the Lion, King of Scotland, to meet King John at York. In 1209 he headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans. In 1212 he and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Henry de Bohun, for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. In 1213 Earl William was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France. In 1214, as Marshal of the King of England, he commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison in chains. He was released before May 1215, and returned to England. In 1215 he was present at Runnymeade on the king's side at the signing of the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. He was granted the manor of Andover, Hampshire in 1215 by his brother, King John. He remained a zealous royalist until June 1216, when he surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis. He returned his allegiance to the king before 7 March 1216/7, when his lands were restored to him. In August 1217 he was with Hubert de Burgh in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by the king. In 1220 he and his wife laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the new Cathedral at Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1222 he gave the manor of Heythrop, Gloucestershire to certain monks and brethren of the Carthusian order, and assigned part of his revenues towards the building of a monastery for them there. In 1223 he took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn. In 1225 he went with Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a supervisory commander on a successful expedition to Gascony. He gave Bradenstoke Priory the advowson of the church of Rogerville (Seine-Inférieure), together with land and rents there and in Sandouville (Seine-Inférieure), and a virgate of land in Chitterne and one in Amesbury, Wiltshire. At an unspecified date William, with consent of Ela his wife, granted the land called "Chandewyk" to William de Nevill, which property he had by grant of Jordan de Saint Martin. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. He left a will dated Midlent 1225. Among other bequests he left 200 marks to the new building of the Salisbury Cathedral Church, plus £200 to the building of St. Mary Bentleywood, Wiltshire, together with his traveling chapel-furniture, breviary, and numerous head of cattle. In 1226 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, brought an action against Earl William's widow, Ela, over the castle and honour of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, including lands in Bishtopstrow, East Coulston, Manningford Bruce (in Wilsford), Newton Tony, Staverton (in Trowbridge), Trowbridge, and Wilsford, Wiltshire; the suit was settled by compromise in 1230, whereby the two parties divided the honour between them. In Jan. 1227 the king transferred Salisbury castle, together with the shrievalty of Wiltshire, to Ela during his pleasure, which she held until 1228. Further evidence of Ela's high standing in royal favour is indicated by the king's regular gifts of venison to her throughout the late 1220s, including one in Sept. 1227 to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of her daughter, Mary. In 1227 the monks of Heythrop not liking their habitation, prevailed on Ela to remove them to Hinton, Somerset, where, in her park, she began a monastery for them, which was completed in 1232. In 1227 she granted all her land west of Bendeywood, Wiltshire to the Hospital of St. Nicholas' Hospital for the sustenance of the poor and infirm. In 1229 Countess Ela founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In April 1231 Ela secured custody of the county of Wiltshire and Salisbury Castle for the term of her life for a fine of 200 marks, the king stipulating that neither the countess or her heirs possessed any legal claim to the castle and county by hereditary right. She was co-heiress c.1232-3 to her mother, Eleanor de Vitré, by which she inherited an interest in the manor of Cowlinge, Suffolk. In Feb. 1236 her son and heir, William Longespée, guaranteed her gifts to Lacock Abbey, while she agreed to surrender all her lands, rents and rights to him on 1 Nov. following. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countes of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespée, her first born son, that she may grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In the winter 1236-7 she resigned her custody of the county of Wiltshire. She subsequently entered her religious foundation at Lacock, where she took the veil before spring 1238. She served as abbess there from 1240 to 1257. In 1249 she gave formal license to her son, William, to depart on a crusade. In 1250, on the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, she saw a vision of him standing fully armed entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels. She died 24 August 1261, and was buried in the convent choir beneath the altar at Lacock Abbey.
  Note: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury has long been known to have been an illegitimate child of Henry II, King of England, allegedly by his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. As early as 1902, however, it was suspected that William Longespée's mother was connected to the Akeny family, a cadet branch of the Tony family [see Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv, footnote 1]. New evidence has surfaced in recent years which proves conclusively that William Longespée was the son of King Henry II by another mistress, a certain Ida de Tony, afterwards wife of Roger le Bigod (died 1221), Earl of Norfolk [see C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk); Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 3711. For evidence that William Longespée was the son of Countess Ida le Bigod, see London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida. It is known from contemporary records that Countess Ida le Bigod had a younger son named Ralph le Bigod [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b]. Among the English prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, there was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record refers to as "brother" [that is, half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi) ... Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la Coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209, which author identified Ralph le Bigod as brother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury]. For evidence that Countess Ida was a member of the Tony family, see Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod was given Ida de Tony in marriage by King Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsharn, Norfolk [which properties were formerly held by Earl Roger's father] [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537]. Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910): 64]. This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181. As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems certain that she was a daughter of Ralph de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester.
  
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  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISH%20NOBILITY%20MEDIEVAL1.htm#ElaSalisburydied1261 as of 5/28/2016
  
  ELA ([1191/92]-24 Aug 1261, bur Lacock Abbey). The Continuator of Florence of Worce
  
  === !Ela, the heiress of Salisbury, was a la ===
  !Ela, the heiress of Salisbury, was a lady of beauty and high spirit. She had become known as the Mystery Maiden after the death of her father in 1196. She disappeared, and it was generally feared that she had been done away with so that one of her paternal uncles could take the title and the enormus wealth of the family. A young knight-errant named William Talbot followed the example of Blondel, however, and sang English ballads under windows in all the castles of Normandy until he received a response. The rescue of the imprisoned maiden resulted, and the galant knoght had the satisfaction of seeing her restored to her family and her rights. The story does not end in the usual way however, for Ela did not fall in love with her rescuer. She was very much attached to the middle-aged husband selected for her by the King. Her husband, William Longespee, assumed the title of Count of Salisbury. After his death Ela founded Lacock Abbey and there spent the remainder of her days.
  
  === Married before 12 ===
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  === !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). TITLE: Countess of Salisbury
  
  === Countess of Salisbury. ===
  Countess of Salisbury.
  
  === Royal Ancestry Biography ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel. In 1191 he was granted the manor of Kirton, Lincolnshire by his brother, King Richard I. He was present at the Coronation of his brother, King John, in 1199. In 1200 he witnessed the homage of William the Lion, King of Scots to King John at Lincoln. In 1202 he went on a diplomatic mission to France. In 1204 he escorted Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Prince of North Wales, to the king. In 1206 he was in the escort of William the Lion, King of Scotland, to meet King John at York. In 1209 he headed an embassy to the prelates and princes of Germany, on behalf of the King's nephew, Otto, King of the Romans. In 1212 he and his wife, Ela, instituted suit in the king's court against Ela's kinsman, Henry de Bohun, for the entire barony of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, Henry's chief fief. The king assumed control of the honour, but allowed Earl William's agents to levy scutage from its tenants. In 1213 Earl William was joint commander of an expedition to help the Count of Flanders against France. In 1214, as Marshal of the King of England, he commanded forces which recovered nearly all of Flanders for the Count; after which he and the Counts of Flanders and Boulogne were captured at the Battle of Bouvines and thrown into prison in chains. He was released before May 1215, and returned to England. In 1215 he was present at Runnymeade on the king's side at the signing of the Magna Carta [Great Charter]. He was granted the manor of Andover, Hampshire in 1215 by his brother, King John. He remained a zealous royalist until June 1216, when he surrendered Salisbury Castle to Prince Louis. He returned his allegiance to the king before 7 March 1216/7, when his lands were restored to him. In August 1217 he was with Hubert de Burgh in the victory over the French fleet off Thanet. In 1217 he was granted the manor of Aldbourne, Wiltshire by the king. In 1220 he and his wife laid the 4th and 5th stones at the founding of the new Cathedral at Salisbury, Wiltshire. In 1222 he gave the manor of Heythrop, Gloucestershire to certain monks and brethren of the Carthusian order, and assigned part of his revenues towards the building of a monastery for them there. In 1223 he took part in the successful expedition against Llywelyn. In 1225 he went with Richard, Earl of Cornwall as a supervisory commander on a successful expedition to Gascony. He gave Bradenstoke Priory the advowson of the church of Rogerville (Seine-Inférieure), together with land and rents there and in Sandouville (Seine-Inférieure), and a virgate of land in Chitterne and one in Amesbury, Wiltshire. At an unspecified date William, with consent of Ela his wife, granted the land called "Chandewyk" to William de Nevill, which property he had by grant of Jordan de Saint Martin. SIR WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire. He left a will dated Midlent 1225. Among other bequests he left 200 marks to the new building of the Salisbury Cathedral Church, plus £200 to the building of St. Mary Bentleywood, Wiltshire, together with his traveling chapel-furniture, breviary, and numerous head of cattle. In 1226 Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, brought an action against Earl William's widow, Ela, over the castle and honour of Trowbridge, Wiltshire, including lands in Bishtopstrow, East Coulston, Manningford Bruce (in Wilsford), Newton Tony, Staverton (in Trowbridge), Trowbridge, and Wilsford, Wiltshire; the suit was settled by compromise in 1230, whereby the two parties divided the honour between them. In Jan. 1227 the king transferred Salisbury castle, together with the shrievalty of Wiltshire, to Ela during his pleasure, which she held until 1228. Further evidence of Ela's high standing in royal favour is indicated by the king's regular gifts of venison to her throughout the late 1220s, including one in Sept. 1227 to celebrate the forthcoming nuptials of her daughter, Mary. In 1227 the monks of Heythrop not liking their habitation, prevailed on Ela to remove them to Hinton, Somerset, where, in her park, she began a monastery for them, which was completed in 1232. In 1227 she granted all her land west of Bendeywood, Wiltshire to the Hospital of St. Nicholas' Hospital for the sustenance of the poor and infirm. In 1229 Countess Ela founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire. In April 1231 Ela secured custody of the county of Wiltshire and Salisbury Castle for the term of her life for a fine of 200 marks, the king stipulating that neither the countess or her heirs possessed any legal claim to the castle and county by hereditary right. She was co-heiress c.1232-3 to her mother, Eleanor de Vitré, by which she inherited an interest in the manor of Cowlinge, Suffolk. In Feb. 1236 her son and heir, William Longespée, guaranteed her gifts to Lacock Abbey, while she agreed to surrender all her lands, rents and rights to him on 1 Nov. following. On 25 October 1236 Ela, Countes of Salisbury, reached agreement with William Longespée, her first born son, that she may grant a moiety of the manor of Heddington, Wiltshire to Lacock Priory, which property fell to her on the death of Maud de Mandeville, Countess of Essex and Hereford. In the winter 1236-7 she resigned her custody of the county of Wiltshire. She subsequently entered her religious foundation at Lacock, where she took the veil before spring 1238. She served as abbess there from 1240 to 1257. In 1249 she gave formal license to her son, William, to depart on a crusade. In 1250, on the eve of the battle in which he was killed in Egypt, she saw a vision of him standing fully armed entering heaven, being joyfully received by attendant angels. She died 24 August 1261, and was buried in the convent choir beneath the altar at Lacock Abbey.
  Note: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury has long been known to have been an illegitimate child of Henry II, King of England, allegedly by his mistress, Rosamond Clifford. As early as 1902, however, it was suspected that William Longespée's mother was connected to the Akeny family, a cadet branch of the Tony family [see Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv, footnote 1]. New evidence has surfaced in recent years which proves conclusively that William Longespée was the son of King Henry II by another mistress, a certain Ida de Tony, afterwards wife of Roger le Bigod (died 1221), Earl of Norfolk [see C.P. 9 (1936): 586-589 (sub Norfolk); Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 1 (Camden 4th Ser. 31) (1986): 3711. For evidence that William Longespée was the son of Countess Ida le Bigod, see London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, which includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida. It is known from contemporary records that Countess Ida le Bigod had a younger son named Ralph le Bigod [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b]. Among the English prisoners captured at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, there was a certain Ralph [le] Bigod, who a contemporary French record refers to as "brother" [that is, half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury [see Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 17 (1878): 101 (Guillelmus Armoricus: "Isti sunt Prisiones (capti in bello Bovinensi) ... Radulphus Bigot, frater Comitis Saresburiensis"); see also Malo Un Grand Feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la Coalition de Bouvines (1898):199, 209, which author identified Ralph le Bigod as brother of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury]. For evidence that Countess Ida was a member of the Tony family, see Morris Bigod Earls of Norfolk (2005): 2, who cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl Roger le Bigod was given Ida de Tony in marriage by King Henry II, together with the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South Walsharn, Norfolk [which properties were formerly held by Earl Roger's father] [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537]. Morris shows that Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910): 64]. This appears to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as having occurred about Christmas 1181. As for Countess Ida's parentage, it seems certain that she was a daughter of Ralph de Tony (died 1162), of Flamstead, Hertfordshire, by his wife, Margaret (b. c.1125, living 1185), daughter of Robert of Meulan, Knt., 1st Earl of Leicester [see C.P. 7 (1929): 530, footnote e (incorrectly dates Ralph and Margaret's marriage as "after 1155" based on the misdating of a charter - correction provided by Ray Phair); C.P. 12(1) (1953): 764-765 (sub Tony); Power Norman Frontie
  
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  Compiled by: J. K. Loren
  
  === http://www.familylore.org/index.php?title=Ela,_Countess_of_Salisbury ===
  Ela, Countess of Salisbury
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  Ela, Countess of Salisbury
  Title/Occupation: 3rd Countess of Salisbury, suo jure
  
  Education:
  
  Born: abt 1191,
  Died: 24 August 1261,
  Buried:
  
  Mother: Eléonore de Vitré
  Father: William FitzPatrick
  Siblings:
  Spouse: William Longespee
  Issue: Stephen Longespee
  
  === Miscellaneous Notes and Biography ===
  Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury (1187 – 24 August 1261) was an English peer. She succeeded to the title in her own right in 1196 upon the death of her father, William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury.
  Ela married William Longespée, an illegitimate half-brother of kings Richard I and John, who thus became Earl of Salisbury, in 1196. Ela held the post of High Sheriff of Wiltshire for two years after William's death, then became a nun, and eventually Abbess of Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire, which she had founded in 1229. .. .
  In 1196, the same year she became countess and inherited her father's numerous estates, Ela married William Longespée, an illegitimate son of King Henry II, by his mistress Ida de Tosny, who later married Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk. Longespée became 3rd Earl of Salisbury by right of his wife. The Continuator of Florence recorded that their marriage had been arranged by King Richard I, who was William's legitimate half-brother.
  
  Source: Wikipedia.org
  
  Ela md early, age 9, but the marriage was not consummated until later.

• m. in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

1. Ida Longespée the younger, b. 1222 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 11 MAY 1262 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
2. Mary Longespée, b. ABT 1209 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 10 APR 1262 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
3. Ela de Longespée of Salisbury, b. 1211 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 22 NOV 1299 in Heleigh Castle, Staffordshire, , England
4. Stephen Longespée, b. ABT 1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom     d. ABT 1260 in Sutton, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom
5. Ida Longespée, b. 1208 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England     d. 7 JAN 1268 in Nunnery of Cokehill,Salisbury, Wiltshire, England

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   Note: "New "Gateway" Ancestor The Order, on an occasional basis as they are discovered and reported, publishes newly discovered and well documented "gateway" ancestors. In this edition of "Jewels" we introduce Audrey Barlow. The account which follows is from the research file account of Mr. Douglas Richardson, renowned professional genealogist, honorary member of the Order, and author of Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families (2004) for a planned second edition of his book. The first 13 generations in the skeletal pedigree at the beginning of the account are covered in his book, Plantagenet Ancestry (2004). Research on the Barlow and Stafford families was underwritten by C. Owen Johnson, a new member of the Order and descendant of Audrey Barlow. *BARLOW* HENRY II, King of England, by a mistress, IDA DE TONY. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married ELA OF SALISBURY. IDA LONGESPÉE, married WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire. BEATRICE DE BEAUCHAMP, married THOMAS FITZ OTES, Knt., of Mendlesham, Suffolk. MAUD FITZ THOMAS, married JOHN BOTETOURT, Knt., 1st Lord Botetourt. ADA BOTETOURT, married JOHN DE SAINT PHILIBERT, Knt., of Eaton Hastings, Berkshire. MAUD DE SAINT PHILIBERT, married WARIN TRUSSELL, Knt., of Billesley, Warwickshire. MAUD TRUSSELL, married JOHN HASTANG, of Chebsey, Staffordshire. MAUD HASTANG, married RALPH STAFFORD, Esq., of Grafton, Worcestershire. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Grafton, Worcestershire, married ELIZABETH BURDET. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Grafton, Worcestershire, married ELEANOR AYLESBURY. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Esq., of Grafton, Worcestershire, married KATHERINE FRAY . 14. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Cotered and Rushden, Hertfordshire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1526-1527 son and heir, born 1 May 1478 (aged 42 in 1517). He married (1st) after 1490 MARGARET FOGGE, daughter of John Fogge, Knt., of Ashford, Kent, and London, Treasurer of the Household to King Edward IV, Privy Councilor, Keeper of the Writs, Knight of the Shire for Kent, Burgess (M.P.) for Canterbury, Kent, by his 2nd wife, Alice, daughter of William Haute, Esq. She was near kinswoman of Queen Eliza- beth Wydeville, wife of King Edward IV of England. They had three sons, Humphrey, Knt., William, K.B., and Robert, Knt., and three daughters, Joan (or Jane) (wife of _____ Williams and Maximilian Celsus), Ellen, and Mary. Margaret was a legatee in the 1490 will of her father, she being then unmarried. In 1514 his father's attainder was reversed, and the family estates partially restored to him, including the manors of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, and Bourton-on-Dunsmore, Warwickshire. In 1508-1509 John Hoke, butcher, of Derby, kinsman and heir of John Somerby, clerk, conveyed the manor and advowson of the church of Great Munden and the advowson of Rowney Priory, Hertfordshire to Humphrey Stafford and his cousin, William Waldegrave, Knt. Humphrey was heir in 1517 to his uncle, Thomas Stafford, Esq., by which he inherited the manors of Blatherwycke and Dodford, Northamptonshire. He married (2nd) in 1532 JOAN _____, widow of William Lane. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died 22 Sept. 1545. References: Bridges, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275-280. Baker, Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 349-356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas, Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826):400-402 (will of Sir John Fogge, Knt.). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 26 (1846): 31-33. Whellan, Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory of Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Burn, Registrum Ecclesi Parochialis: Hist. of Parish Regs. in England (1862): 275-276, 283-284, 286. Pearman, Hist. of Ashford (1868). Antiquary 4 (1873): 313 (Foggearms: Argent, on a fess, between three annulets, sable, three mullets of the first pierced). Collectanea 1st Ser. (1885): 238-242. Blaikie, Alliance of the Reformed Churches: Minutes & Procs. of the 4th General Council London, 1888 (1889): 307. Leadam, Domesday of Inclosures, 1517-1518 1 (1897): 315. List of Sheriffs for England &Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 93. Leadam, Select Cases Before the King's Council in the Star Chamber 2 (Selden Soc. 25) (1903): 169-170. Pollard, Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources 2 (1914): 17-19. Harvey et al., Vis. of the North 3 (Surtees Soc. 144) (1930): 57-58 (Widvill pedigree: "Margareta [Fogge]"). Wedgwood, Hist. of Parliament 1 (1936): 339-342 (biog. of Sir John Fogge). Adams & Stephens, Select Documents of English Constitutional Hist. (1939): 218-220. Mellows, Last Days of Peterborough Monastery (Northamptonshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1947): xxxviii. VCH Warwick 6 (1951): 40. Adams, Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2 (1959): 239, 659. Ancient Deeds-Series B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9074, B.9849. Children of Humphrey Stafford, Knt., by Margaret Fogge: i. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt. [see next]. ii. WILLIAM STAFFORD, K.B., of Chebsey, Staffordshire, Rochford, Essex, etc., married (1st) MARY BOLEYN [see CAREY 13]; (2nd) DOROTHY STAFFORD [see CAREY 13]. iii.ROBERT STAFFORD, Knt., Serjeant-Porter to Queen Elizabeth I, 3rd son. He married JANE SPENCER, widow of Richard Knightley, Knt. (died 1537), of Upton and Fawsley, Northamptonshire, and daughter of John Spencer, Knt., of Althorp, Northamptonshire. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275-280. Burn Registrum Ecclesi Parochialis: Hist. of Parish Regs. in England (1862): 284. Collectanea 1st Ser. (1885): 182-185, 187, 193, 201-242. 15. HUMPHREY STAFFORD, Knt., of Blatherwycke, Dodford, and Kirby, Northamptonshire, Chebsey, Staffordshire, etc., Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1547-1548, Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII, son and heir by his father's 1st marriage. He married by settlement dated 10 Feb. 1526 MARGARET TAME, daughter of Edmund Tame, Knt., of Fairford, Gloucestershire, by his 1st wife, Agnes, daughter of Edward Greville, Knt. They had two sons, Humphrey, Knt., and John, Esq., and three daughters, Anne (wife of Anthony Cope, Knt.), Frances (wife of Thomas Smith, Knt.), and Ellen (or Eleanor). His wife, Margaret, was co-heiress in 1544 to her brother, Edmund Tame, Knt., by which she inherited the manor of Rendcombe, Gloucestershire. In 1545 he demised the manor of Chebsey, Staffordshire to his brother, William Stafford, Knt. In 1546 he sold the manor of Dodford, Northamptonshire and all the lands belonging to Dodford and Farthingstone [Dodford Wood etc.], excepting a rent-charge of £64. 2s. 11-½d. per annum, to John Wyrley, Gent. In 1547 he presented to the church of Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire. SIR HUMPHREY STAFFORD died 8 May 1548, and was buried in Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire. His widow, Margaret, married (2nd) (as his 3rd wife) JOHN COPE (or COOPE), Knt., of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, Sheriff of Northamptonshire, 1545-1546, Knight of the Shire for Northamptonshire, 2nd son of William Cope, Esq., of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Cofferer to King Henry VIII, by his wife, Jane, daughter of John Spencer, Esq., of Hodnell, Warwickshire. He was born before 1513. They had no issue. He was knighted before March 1550. SIR JOHN COPE died 22 Jan. 1557/8. He left a will proved 21 May 1558 (P.C.C. 25 Noodes). His wife, Margaret, survived him. Kimber & Johnson Baronetage of England 1 (1771): 50-55 (sub Cope). Bigland An Account of the Parish of Fairford in the County of Gloucester (1791): 12, 19-27. Bridges Hist. & Antiqs. of Northamptonshire 2 (1791): 275-280 (Tame arms: a Griffin and a lion crowned Countersalient). Rudge Hist. of the County of Gloucester 1 (1803): 255, 309. Baker Hist. & Antiqs. of Northampton 1 (1822-1830): 349-356 (Keynes-Aylesbury-Stafford pedigree). Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 2 (1826): 749 (will of Anthony Cope). Gentleman's Mag. n.s. 26 (1846): 31-33. Whellan Hist., Gazetteer, and Directory of Northamptonshire (1849): 442. Lee Hist. of the Town and Parish of Tetbury (1857): 79. Warwickshire Antiqs. Magazine Pt. 8 (1859): 148 (Verney pedigree: "... [Thame] ux. Sr. Hump: Stafford of Blather wick Kt.). Holt Tames of Fairfield (1870). Notes & Queries 4th Ser. 6 (1870): 250 -251. Grosart Complete Poems and Translations in Prose of Humfrey Gifford Gentleman (1875): 167. Chitting & Phillipot Vis. of Gloucester 1623, 1569 & 1582-3 (H.S.P. 21) (1885): 260 (1623 Vis.) (Tame pedigree: "Margerett [Tame] ux. Humfrey Stafford Knight sonn and heire of Sr Humfrey of Blatherwick in com. Northampton.") (Tame arms: Argent, a dragon vert and a lion azure, crowned gules, combatant."). List of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 94. Macklin Brasses of England (1907): 239. Ward Brasses (Cambridge Manuals of Science & Literature) (1912): 136. Gifford A Posie of Gilloflowers (1933): xiii. Adams Living Descendants of Blood Royal 2 (1959): 239, 659. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1970): 119-124. An Inventory of the Hist. Monuments in the County of Northampton 6 (1975): xvii. VCH Gloucester 8 (2001): 42-69; 11 (1976): 264-269. 16. ELLEN (or ELEANOR) STAFFORD, married (1st) ANTHONY COPE, Esq., of Adstone, Northamptonshire, son of John Cope, Knt., of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire, by his 1st wife, Bridget, daughter of Edward Raleigh, Esq. They had no issue. He left a will dated 6 June 1558, proved 20 Dec. 1558, requesting burial in the church of Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire near his father. His widow, Ellen, married (2nd) before 1568 THOMAS BARLOW (or BARLOWE), of Huncote (in Narborough), Leicestershire. They had one son, Stafford, Gent. Thomas witnessed the 1571 will of John Smythe, of Huncote (in Narborough), Leicestershire. He may be the "Master Barlowe" who was named an overseer of the 1576 will of John Pallet, of Huncote (in Narborough), Leicestershire. His wife, Ellen, may possibly be the Ellen Butler, widow, of All Saints parish, Leicester, Leicestershire who left a will proved 20 Feb. 1607/8, whose executor
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3. Title: SULPICE . The Chronicle of Saint-Maxence
   Page: British Isles - England, Earls 1138-1143, p. 231: ELA ([1191/92]-24 Aug 1261, bur Lacock Abbey). The Continuator of Florence of Worcester records that Richard I King of England arranged the marriage of "Willelmus comes Saresberiensis filius comitis Patricii…filiam" and "Wilelmo fratri suo notho cum comitatu" in [1196][1741]. She succeeded her father in 1196 as Ctss of Salisbury, suo iuris. “Ela comitissa Sarr.” founded Henton Priory, Somerset, for the soul of “comitis Willielmi patris mei”, by undated charter[1742]. She founded Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire in 1229, where she became a nun 1238. Abbess of Lacock 1240-1257. m (1198) WILLIAM Longespee, illegitimate son of HENRY II King of England & his mistress Ida --- (1176-Salisbury 7 Mar 1226, bur Salisbury Cathedral). Earl of Salisbury 1196 by right of his wife.
   
4. Title: Wikiwand: Lacock Abbey
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   Note: Lacock Abbey in the village of Lacock, Wiltshire, England, was founded in the early 13th century by Ela, Countess of Salisbury, as a nunnery of the Augustinian order. The abbey remained a nunnery until the suppression of Roman Catholic institutions in England in the 16th century. It was then sold to Sir William Sharington who converted the convent into a residence where he and his family lived. It was fortified and remained loyal to the crown during the English Civil War, but surrendered to the Parliamentary forces once Devizes had fallen in 1645. The house was built over the old cloisters and the main rooms are on the first floor. It is a stone house with stone slated roofs, twisted chimney stacks and mullioned windows. Throughout the life of the building, many architectural alterations, additions, and renovations have occurred so that the house is a mish-mash of different periods and styles. The Tudor stable courtyard to the north of the house has retained many of its original features including the old brewhouse and bakehouse. The house later passed into the hands of the Talbot family and during the 19th century, served as the residence for William Henry Fox Talbot. In 1835 he made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative, an image of one of the windows. The house and the surrounding village of Lacock were given to the National Trust in 1944. The abbey houses the Fox Talbot Museum, devoted to the pioneering work of William Talbot's work in the field of photography. The Trust markets the abbey and village together as "Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum & Village." The abbey is a Grade I listed building, having been so designated on 20 December 1960. History Main article: Lacock Abbey (monastery) Lacock Abbey, dedicated to St Mary and St Bernard, was founded in 1229 by the widowed Lady Ela the Countess of Salisbury, who laid the abbey's first stone 16 April 1232, in the reign of King Henry III, and to which she retired in 1238. Her late husband had been William Longespee, an illegitimate son of King Henry II. The abbey was founded in Snail's Meadow, near the village of Lacock. The first of the Augustinian nuns were veiled in 1232. Generally, Lacock Abbey prospered throughout the Middle Ages. The rich farmlands which it had received from Ela ensured it a sizeable income from wool. Following the Dissolution of the Monasteries in the mid-16th century, Henry VIII sold it to Sir William Sharington for £783, who demolished the abbey church and converted the abbey into a house, starting work in about 1539. So as not to be incommoded by villagers passing close to his residence, he is said to have sold the church bells and used the proceeds to erect a bridge over the River Ray for their convenience. Few other alterations were made to the monastic buildings themselves: the cloisters, for example, still stand below the living accommodation. About 1550, Sir William added an octagonal tower containing two small chambers, one above the other; the lower one was reached through the main rooms, and was for storing and viewing his treasures; the upper one, for banqueting, was only accessible by walking across the leads of the roof. In each chamber is a central octagonal stone table, carved with up-to-date Renaissance ornament. A mid-16th century stone conduit house stands over the spring from which water was conducted to the house. Further additions were made over the centuries, and the house now has various grand reception rooms. In the 16th and early 17th centuries, Nicholas Cooper has pointed out, bedchambers were often named for individuals who customarily inhabited them when staying at a house. At Lacock, as elsewhere, they were named for individuals "whose recognition in this way advertised the family's affinities": the best chamber was "the duke's chamber", probably signifying John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, whom Sharington had served, while "Lady Thynne's chamber," identified it with the wife of Sir John Thynne of Longleat, and "Mr Mildmay's chamber" was reserved for Sharington's son-in-law Anthony Mildmay of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire. During the English Civil War the house was garrisoned by Royalists. It was fortified by surrounding it with earthworks. The garrison surrendered (on agreed terms) to Parliamentarian forces under the command of Colonel Devereux, Governor of Malmesbury, within days of Oliver Cromwell's capture of the nearby town of Devizes in late September 1645. The house eventually passed to the Talbot family. It is most often associated with amateur scientist and inventor William Henry Fox Talbot, who in 1835 made what may be the earliest surviving photographic camera negative: an interior view of the oriel window in the south gallery of the abbey. Talbot's experiments eventually led to his invention of the more sensitive and practical calotype or "Talbotype" paper negative process for camera use, commercially introduced in 1841. Architecture When Sir William Sharington purchased the remains of the Augustinian nunnery in 1540, after the dissolution, he built a country house on the cloister court. He retained the cloisters and the medieval basement largely unaltered and built another storey above, so that the main rooms are on the first floor. The house is constructed of ashlar and rubble stone, the roofs are of stone slates and there are many twisted, sixteenth century chimney stacks. The house is a blend of different styles but lacks a cohesive plan; the four wings of the house are built above the cloister passages, but the house cannot be entered from the cloisters, and the cloisters cannot be seen from inside the house. The abbey underwent substantial alterations in the Gothic Revival style in the 1750s, under the ownership of John Ivory Talbot. The great hall was redesigned during this period, the architect being Sanderson Miller. The basement consists of an arcade of cloisters on three sides, surrounding several vaulted rooms including the sacristy, chapter house and warming house. These rooms were situated under the original dormitory. At the other end of the building, below what was formerly the abbess' chambers and the great hall, are two rooms and the main passage. On the north side, underneath the original refectory, is the undercroft. The west front has two flights of broad, balustraded steps leading up to the central door. Inside is a full-height hall with a part-hipped valley roof. On either side of this are octagonal turrets with cupolas and delicately pierced parapets. To the left of the hall is the former medieval kitchen with a balustraded parapet and buttresses. To the right is a range of parapetted rooms with a stepped buttress at the corner. The south front was plain, being the inside north wall of the original abbey church which was pulled down, but was rebuilt by William Talbot in 1828 to include bay windows. At this end of the building is Sharington's tower, an octagonal, three-storey tower, topped with a belvedere, balustrade and stair turret. The east front looks more medieval than the other sides but probably dates from about 1900, however the south end cross-wing appears to be mostly sixteenth century. To the north of the house stands the well-preserved sixteenth century stable courtyard. This has timbered gabled dormer windows, and a tall clock-tower at the west side of its north range. These buildings have mullion windows, and Tudor arched-doorways. Also beside the courtyard are the brew house, one of the oldest in Britain, and the bakehouse. The two lodges are seventeenth century and the carriage-houses are eighteenth century. The roof bosses in the cloisters display many astrological references including the constellations Cygnus (the Swan), Vulpecula and Anser (Fox and Goose), Sagittarius (the Archer), the Man in the Moon, Draco (the Dragon), Canis Major (Sirius the Dog Star), Capricornus (the Sea Goat), Columba (the Dove), Noctua (the Owl), Aquila (the Eagle), Leo (the Lion) and Virgo (the Angel). ....
   
5. Title: Ela fitzPatrick d'Evereux Longspee, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVVC-GRJT : 16 July 2020), Ela fitzPatrick d'Evereux Longspee, ; Burial, , ; citing record ID , Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
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