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Sir William "Earl of Salisbury, Baron of Chitterne" Plantagenet
(Abt 1176 - 7 Mar 1226)
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The titles of Sir William Longespee, Knt., per Douglas Richardson on page 599 of Royal Ancestry 2013, Volume III:
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
:: "Little is known of Longespée's upbringing or early career, although in a letter of 1220 to Hubert de Burgh he reminded the justiciar that they had been brought up together. He received Appleby, Lincolnshire, from Henry II in 1188, which suggests that by then he had attained his majority. In 1196 his half-brother Richard I gave him in marriage Ela (or Isabel), countess of Salisbury (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261), the infant daughter and heir of William Fitzpatrick, earl of Salisbury. William and Ela had four sons: William (II) Longespée, Richard, a canon of Salisbury, Stephen (d. 1260), a soldier and administrator made seneschal of Gascony in 1253 and lord justice of Ireland in 1259, and Nicholas (d. 1297), bishop of Salisbury from 1291 to 1297. Of four daughters, Isabel married William de Vescy, Petronilla died unmarried, Ela married first Thomas, earl of Warwick (d. 1242), then Philip Basset, and Ida married first Walter Fitzrobert and second William de Beauchamp." (Ref: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
:: According to Douglas Richardson (''Royal Ancestryy: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603 - 610) William Longespee and Ela Salisbury had five daughters, including a second Ida who married Sir Walter Fitz Robert, son and heir of Magna Charta Surety Sir Robert Fitz Walter. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
===Issue===: William, married Idoine de Camville ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
: Stephen married Emeline de Ridelisford ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603ii
: Richard, a clerk, parson of Warminster, canon of Salisbury, was buried at Lacock Abbey. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 606iii
: Nicholas, Bishop and Canon of Salisbury[[Longespée-88|Nicholas, Bishop of Salisbury]] ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 606iv
: Ida married 1st Ralph de Somery, married 2nd Sir William de Beauchamp, Knight ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 607v
: Mary married about Sept, 1227 an unknown husband. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608iv
: Isabel Longespée married Sir William de Vescy. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608vii She was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608vii
: Ela married Sir Thomas Warwick, Knight, 6th Earl of Warwick. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii She married 2nd Philip Basset, Knight, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii They had no issue. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii
: Ida (again) married Sir Walter Fitz Robert, son and heir of Magna Charta Surety Sir Robert Fitz Walter. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
: Pernel is not recognized by Douglas Richardson in ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603 - 310 [issue of William Longespeee and Ela Salisbury].
==Death and burial of Sir William de Longespee==(Royal Ancestry) Sir William de Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) The natural son of Henry II and [[Clifford-58|Rosamund de Clifford]] [later evidence is that his mother was "Comitissa Ida"from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longesp%C3%A9e,_3rd_Earl_of_Salisbury :
:"He was an illegitimate son of Henry II of England. His mother was unknown for many years until the discovery of a charter William made that mentions "Comitissa Ida, mater mea" (Countess Ida, my mother).[1][2] This Ida de Tosny, a member of the prominent Tosny (or Toesny) family, married Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk[3] in 1181."] William Longespee died at Sarum Castle in 1226, reputedly poisoned by Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. The Earl was buried in the new abbey church at Salisbury to the north of the Lady Chapel altar, although an account in the 1630s claims he was originally buried in the old church. It is believed the earl's widow, Ela, was probably responsible for his tomb, which was moved to its present position in the south-east bay of the nave during the remodeling of the Lady Chapel by James Wyatt around 1790. His wooden tomb-chest is one of the earliest surviving in England as well as one of the earliest surviving knight effigies.
His tomb can be seen at Salisbury Cathedral today.
==Sources ==
* '''"Royal Ancestry" D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I. page 40.''': Illegitimate child of Henry II, by a mistress, Ida de Tony, daughter of Ralph de Tony, (died 1162), by Margaret, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Ida later became the wife of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (died 1221): : William Longespee, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married Ela Of Salisbury.
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. I. page 354'''
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. I. page 448'''
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. III p. 599-610'''
* Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 65-68
* [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/267827/where-was-william-longespee-born?show=267879#a267879 G2G discussion] (birth location)
: See also:
* Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry]'' (2013) Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume III, page 603 - 610.
*The American Genealogist, volume 77 (April 2002): 137–149. ''Countess Ida, Mother of William Longespée, Illegitimate Son of Henry II'', by Paul C. Reed.
*The American Genealogist, volume 77 (October 2002): 279–281. ''William Longespée, Ralph Bigod, and Countess Ida'', by Raymond W Phair.
* Richard Thomson. ''An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta.'' London, 1829, pg. 313;
* Royal Ancestors'' by Michel Call.
* http://www.robertsewell.ca/longespee.html
* [[Wikipedia: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury]]
* Shaw, Henry, ''Dresses and decorations of the middle ages'', (London, England, 1843), digital image, [https://archive.org/stream/dressesdecoratio01shaw#page/128/mode/2up Internet Archive], accessed 28 March 2014; extracted from database of same title, Vol I
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
[[Category:Magna Carta|Magna Carta]]
[[Category: Illustrious Men]]
[[Category: Battle of Damme]]
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The titles of Sir William Longespee, Knt., per Douglas Richardson on page 599 of Royal Ancestry 2013, Volume III:
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
:: "Little is known of Longespée's upbringing or early career, although in a letter of 1220 to Hubert de Burgh he reminded the justiciar that they had been brought up together. He received Appleby, Lincolnshire, from Henry II in 1188, which suggests that by then he had attained his majority. In 1196 his half-brother Richard I gave him in marriage Ela (or Isabel), countess of Salisbury (b. in or after 1190, d. 1261), the infant daughter and heir of William Fitzpatrick, earl of Salisbury. William and Ela had four sons: William (II) Longespée, Richard, a canon of Salisbury, Stephen (d. 1260), a soldier and administrator made seneschal of Gascony in 1253 and lord justice of Ireland in 1259, and Nicholas (d. 1297), bishop of Salisbury from 1291 to 1297. Of four daughters, Isabel married William de Vescy, Petronilla died unmarried, Ela married first Thomas, earl of Warwick (d. 1242), then Philip Basset, and Ida married first Walter Fitzrobert and second William de Beauchamp." (Ref: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
:: According to Douglas Richardson (''Royal Ancestryy: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603 - 610) William Longespee and Ela Salisbury had five daughters, including a second Ida who married Sir Walter Fitz Robert, son and heir of Magna Charta Surety Sir Robert Fitz Walter. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
===Issue===: William, married Idoine de Camville ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
: Stephen married Emeline de Ridelisford ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603ii
: Richard, a clerk, parson of Warminster, canon of Salisbury, was buried at Lacock Abbey. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 606iii
: Nicholas, Bishop and Canon of Salisbury[[Longespée-88|Nicholas, Bishop of Salisbury]] ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 606iv
: Ida married 1st Ralph de Somery, married 2nd Sir William de Beauchamp, Knight ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 607v
: Mary married about Sept, 1227 an unknown husband. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608iv
: Isabel Longespée married Sir William de Vescy. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608vii She was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608vii
: Ela married Sir Thomas Warwick, Knight, 6th Earl of Warwick. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii She married 2nd Philip Basset, Knight, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii They had no issue. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 608viii
: Ida (again) married Sir Walter Fitz Robert, son and heir of Magna Charta Surety Sir Robert Fitz Walter. ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 610 #6
: Pernel is not recognized by Douglas Richardson in ''Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families'', Vol. III, page 603 - 310 [issue of William Longespeee and Ela Salisbury].
==Death and burial of Sir William de Longespee==(Royal Ancestry) Sir William de Longespee, Earl of Salisbury, died at Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire 7 March 1225/6, and was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire.
(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) The natural son of Henry II and [[Clifford-58|Rosamund de Clifford]] [later evidence is that his mother was "Comitissa Ida"from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Longesp%C3%A9e,_3rd_Earl_of_Salisbury :
:"He was an illegitimate son of Henry II of England. His mother was unknown for many years until the discovery of a charter William made that mentions "Comitissa Ida, mater mea" (Countess Ida, my mother).[1][2] This Ida de Tosny, a member of the prominent Tosny (or Toesny) family, married Roger Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk[3] in 1181."] William Longespee died at Sarum Castle in 1226, reputedly poisoned by Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent. The Earl was buried in the new abbey church at Salisbury to the north of the Lady Chapel altar, although an account in the 1630s claims he was originally buried in the old church. It is believed the earl's widow, Ela, was probably responsible for his tomb, which was moved to its present position in the south-east bay of the nave during the remodeling of the Lady Chapel by James Wyatt around 1790. His wooden tomb-chest is one of the earliest surviving in England as well as one of the earliest surviving knight effigies.
His tomb can be seen at Salisbury Cathedral today.
==Sources ==
* '''"Royal Ancestry" D. Richardson 2013 Vol. I. page 40.''': Illegitimate child of Henry II, by a mistress, Ida de Tony, daughter of Ralph de Tony, (died 1162), by Margaret, daughter of Robert, 2nd Earl of Leicester. Ida later became the wife of Roger le Bigod, Earl of Norfolk (died 1221): : William Longespee, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, married Ela Of Salisbury.
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. I. page 354'''
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. I. page 448'''
* '''"Royal Ancestry" 2013 Douglas Richardson Vol. III p. 599-610'''
* Royal Tombs of Medieval England M. Duffy 2003 p. 65-68
* [http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/267827/where-was-william-longespee-born?show=267879#a267879 G2G discussion] (birth location)
: See also:
* Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry]'' (2013) Douglas Richardson, ''[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1463561687/sr=8-1/qid=1397864689/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1397864689&seller=&sr=8-1 Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families]'', 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), volume III, page 603 - 610.
*The American Genealogist, volume 77 (April 2002): 137–149. ''Countess Ida, Mother of William Longespée, Illegitimate Son of Henry II'', by Paul C. Reed.
*The American Genealogist, volume 77 (October 2002): 279–281. ''William Longespée, Ralph Bigod, and Countess Ida'', by Raymond W Phair.
* Richard Thomson. ''An Historical Essay on the Magna Charta.'' London, 1829, pg. 313;
* Royal Ancestors'' by Michel Call.
* http://www.robertsewell.ca/longespee.html
* [[Wikipedia: William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury]]
* Shaw, Henry, ''Dresses and decorations of the middle ages'', (London, England, 1843), digital image, [https://archive.org/stream/dressesdecoratio01shaw#page/128/mode/2up Internet Archive], accessed 28 March 2014; extracted from database of same title, Vol I
== Acknowledgements ==This page has been edited according to [http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Acknowledgements Style Standards] adopted January 2014. Descriptions of imported gedcoms for this profile are under the Changes tab.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1176 | England | |||
| Death | 7 Mar 1226 | Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire, England | |||
| Alt name | de Longespee | ||||
| Reference No | 5264253 | ||||
| Reference No | 5405541 | ||||
| Reference No | 60 |
Families
| Father | Henry Plantagenet (1133 - 1189) |
| Mother | Ida "Countess of Norfolk" Toeni (1160 - 1204) |