Patrick Earl of Salisbury 1st Earl of Wiltshire

  General Notes:

~Weis' Ancestral Roots. . ., 8th Edition, 108:26, Patrick was the second husband of Héle or Ela de Alençon, he was the 1st Earl of Salisbury, son of Walter de Salisbury and by his wife Sibyl de Chasworth. ¹⁶⁰

GEN-MEDIEVAL Archives, Todd A. Farmerie" <taf2@PO.CWRU.EDU> soc.genealogy.medieval
27 Jan 1997
Subject: Re: EVREUX family 970-1120 (in part):
"Walter de Salisbury, for whom the highest title I could find was Sheriff of Wiltshire, was father of Patrick de Salisbury, who was created Earl (technically of Wiltshire, but always refered to as of Salisbury). ¹⁶⁰

~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, 1896, Vol. VII, pg. 30, witness in 1153 to King Stephen's treaty with Henry, afterwards Henry II, was Sheriff of Wilts, 1156-60, and Lieut and Captain General of the forces in Aquitaine for Henry II, murdered by Guy de Lusiguan, 26 March 1167/68, buried at the Abbey of St. Hilary, at Poitiers. His widow died 1174. ¹⁴¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁶
Patrick de Salisbury, who was Steward of the Household to the Empress Maud and advanced by her to the dignity of Earl of Salisbury. He was Slain by Guy de Lusignan in 1169 on his return from a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella. He was first married to maud, and second to Ala (Hele), the daughter of William de Talvas, Count of Ponthieu, and was the widow of William, Earl of Warren and Surrey.
~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pg. 94, Pedigree 58

Patrick married Hele Comtesse de Alençon, daughter of Guillaume "Talvas" de Belêsme comte d'Alençon et de Ponthieu and Hélie de Bourgogne, in 1149.⁷⁴⁸ (Hele Comtesse de Alençon was born in 1124 in Alençon, Normandy, France and died on 4 Dec 1174 in Priory, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England ⁷⁴⁸.)