Ela de Salisbury

  General Notes:

~Annals and Antiquities of Lacok Abbey, Pedigree V. p. 264 ⁷⁵⁹

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 108:28, 122:28, countess of Salisbury, m. William Longspee ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁶
Ela de Slisbury, married William Longespée, the natural son of Henry II by Rosamond Clifford, commonly called "Fair Rosamond," daughter of Walter, Baron of de Clifford and his wife Margaret de Toeni.

~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pg. 94, Pedigree 58

• Background Information. ⁷⁴⁸
Ela or Isabell was the daughter and only heir of William, Earl of Salisbury. She was under the age of six at the time of her father's death in 1196, at which time she became the Countess of Salisbury. She passed this title onto her husband upon their marriage in 1198. After the death of her husband, William de Longespée in 1226, she administered the revenues of the county, and in 1230/31 or 15 Henry III, she paid a fine of 200 marks to hold for life the custody of the county and the Castle of Sarum. This aggangement was terminated when she became a nun at Lacock on 25 Dec 1238, an abbey she had founded in 1232, and of which she subsequently, 15 Aug 1240 to 5 Apr 1257, was Abbess. She died 24 Aug 1261, and was buried in Lacock Abbey.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 1896. Vol. VII, pg. 31.

Ela married William "Long Sword" Longespée 3rd Earl of Salisbury, son of Henri II "Courtmanteau" Plantagenêt King of England and Ida Countess de Toeni, in 1198 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England,.⁷²⁶ (William "Long Sword" Longespée 3rd Earl of Salisbury was born in 1170-1175 in Woodstock Manor, Oxfordshire, England, died 6 or 7 Mar 1226 in Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire, England ⁷²⁶ and was buried in 1226 in Cathedral of Salisbury, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England ⁷⁴⁸.)