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William de Vescy

Male Abt 1205 - Abt 1253  (~ 48 years)


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  • Name William de Vescy 
    Born Abt 1205  of Alnwick, Northumberland, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Abt 7 Oct 1253  Gascony, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Watton Priory, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I6875  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family 1 Isabel Longespée,   d. Bef 1244 
    Married Abt 16 May 1226 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3061  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Agnes de Ferrers,   d. 11 May 1290 
    Married Bef 1244 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3060  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “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 Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 525 (Tosny ped.)]. For evidence which supports Ida's placement as a child of Ralph de Tony, several facts may be noted. First, Countess Ida and her husband, Roger le Bigod, are known to have named children, Ralph and Margaret, presumably in honor of Ida's parents, Ralph and Margaret de Tony [see Thompson Libor Vita Ecclesia Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. 136) (1923): fo. 63b1. Countess Ida was herself evidently named in honor of Ralph de Tony's mother, Ida of Hainault. Second, Morris notes that Ida de Tony was a royal ward at the time of her marriage to Roger le Bigod, meaning she was in the king's gift and that her father was previously a tenant in chief of the king who presumably would have died sometime between 1161 and 1182 [Morris, ibid.]. The only plausible male candidate in the Tony family who could fit to be Ida's father who was also a tenant in chief of the king is Ralph de Tony. Next, William Longespée and his descendants had a long standing association with the family of Roger de Akeny, of Garsington, Oxfordshire, which Roger was a younger brother of Ralph de Tony (died 1162) [see C.P. 8 (1932): chart foll. 464; 14 (1998): 614; Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Fams. (1951): 2; VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 138; Harper-Bill Dodnash Priory Charters (Suffolk Rec. Soc. 16) (1998): 34-37, 39-40, 72-73; Fam. Hist. 18 (1995-97): 47-64; 19 (1998): 125-129]. Lastly, Roger le Bigod and his step-son, William Longespée, both had associations with William the lion, King of Scots, which connection can be readily explained by virtue of King William's wife, Ermengarde, being sister to Constance de Beaumont, wife of Countess Ida's presumed brother, Roger de Tony [see C.P. 12(1) (1953): 760-769 (sub Tony)]. King William the Lion was likewise near related to both of Countess Ida's presumed parents, her father by a shared descent from Countess Judith, the niece of King William the Conqueror, and her mother by a shared descent from Isabel de Vermandois, Countess of Surrey. Roger le Bigod and William Longespée were both present with other English relations of William the lion at an important gathering at Lincoln in 1200, when William the lion paid homage to King John of England [see Stubbs Chronica Magistri Rogeri de Houedene 4 (Rolls Ser. 51) (1871): 141-142]. Thus, naming patterns, familial and political associations give strong evidence that Ida, wife of Earl Roger le Bigod, was a daughter of Ralph de Tony.
      Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 114-117. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Rymer Fædera 1(1) (1816): 113, 121 (Instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratrem, fratri] by King John of England). Banks Genealogical Hist. of Divers Fams of the Ancient Peerage of England (1826): 308-313. Nicolas Testamenta Vetusta 1 (1826): 49-50 (will of William Earl of Salisbury). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 3-6, 501 (Longespée ped. in Lacock Priory: "Gulielmus veto duxit in uxorem Alianoram de Viteri; de qua genuit filiam unicam, nomine Elam, AD. 1188, quæ data est domino Guilielmo Longespée filio regis Henrici secundi; cui dominus rex Ricardus reddidit comitatum de Rosmar, sicut hæreditatem et jus hæreditarium suum et ipsius Elæ..."). Burke Dict. of the Peerages... Extinct, Dormant & in Abeyance (1831): 174-176. Bentley Excerpta Historica (1833): 341-343 (will of William Longespée). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 180-181 (Chronicle in Cottonian coll. of MSS.: "A[ntio] MCCLXI [1261], decimo-quarto kal. Maii [17 April], obiit domina Ela comitissa Sarum, fundatrix cænobiorum de Lacock et Hentona."). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hardy Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum 2 (1844): 200. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normannia 2 (1844): vi, xliv-xlix. Thorpe Florentii Wigorniensis Monachi Chronicon Ex Chronicis 2, (1849): 161 (sub 1196: "Willelmus comes Saresberiensis, filius comitis Patricii, obiit, cujus filiam Ricardus rex dedit Willelmo, fratri suo notho, cum comitatu."). Jour. British Arch. Assoc. 15 (1859): 26-46. Holt Mems. of Royal Ladies 1 (1861): 3-44 (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). Shirley Royal & Other Hist. Letters Ill. of King Henry 1111 (Rolls Ser. 27) (1862): 19-20, 129, 135-136, 220-221, 262-263 (letters of William Longespée). Luard Annales Monastici 2 (Rolls Ser. 36) (1865): 302 (Annals of Waverley sub A.D. 1226: "Obiit Willelmus cognomento Longa Spata, comes Saresbiriensis."). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Herald & Genealogist 6 (1871): 241-253. Fraser Registrum Monasterii S. Marie de Cambuskenneth, A.D. 1147-1535 (1872): 93-94. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 246-247, 396, 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 233-235 (sub Salisbury). Money Hist. of Newbury (1887): 72-79 (Salisbury ped.). Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 316-317 (seal of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury dated 1219 - Obverse. To the left. In armour: hauberk of mail, flat helmet with vizor closed, sword, scabbard, shield of arms. Horse caparisoned. Arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]; on the caparisons, a lion rampant. Legend: SIGILL' WLL' ...BERI. Reverse. Small round counterseal. A sword erect, hilt upwards, garnished with a belt. Legend: SI … LI LONGESPEIE), 391 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury dated post-1226 - Obverse. Pointed oval. In long dress, girded at the waist, cloak, the right hand on the breast, in the left hand an object now wanting. Standing on an elegantly carved corbel. In the field on each side a lioncel rampant reguardant, in allusion to the arms of LONGESPÉE. Reverse. A small shield-shaped counterseal. A shield of arms: six lioncels rampant, three, two, and one [LONGESPÉE]. Legend: SECRETV ELE COMITISSE SARESBERIE). Hall Red Book of the Exchequer 2 (Rolls Ser. 99) (1896): 804. Hist. of Sheriffs for England & Wales (PRO Lists and Indexes 9) (1898): 12, 34, 78, 117, 122, 152. Feet of Fines for Essex 1 (1899): 58. Round Cal. of Docs. Preserved in France 918-1206 (1899): 37-73. C.P.R. 1216-1225 (1901): 550 (William, Earl of Salisbury styled "uncle" [avunculo] by King Henry III). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit Kalendan "19 May - Obitus Willelmi Langespe, comitis Sarum [1226], de predictis."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): xxv-xxix (biog. of Ela, Countess of Salisbury), 154-156 (charter of Ela, Countess of Salisbury). C.P.R. 1225-1232 (1903): 34, 255. Wrottesley Peds. from the Plea Rolls (1905): 515. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 25 (Ela styled "king's kinswoman" [affinis]). VCH Hertford 2 (1908): 201-203. VCH Hampshire 4 (1911): 345-358. C.P. 2 (1912): 126, footnote b (sub Berkeley) (Lucy [widow of Robert] de Berkeley styled "niece" [neptis] of William Longespée in 1222); 11 (1949): 379-382 (sub Salisbury); 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy), 365 (sub Warwick), 729 (sub Wiltshire). Phillimore Rotuli Hugonis de Welles Episcopi Lincolniensis 1209-1235 1 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 3) (1912): 106; 2 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 6) (1913): 51. Fowler Roll of the Justices in Eyre at Bedford 1227 (Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 3) (1916): 16. Farrer Honors & Knight's Fees 2 (1924): 289. Pauli & Libermann Ex rerum Anglicarum scriptoribus sæc. XII. et XIII. (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica, Scriptores 27) (1885): 385 (E Gervasii Tilleberiensis Otiis Imperialibus: William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, styled "uncle" [avunculum] of Emperor Otto IV). Great Roll of the Pipe Michaelmas 1194 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 5) (1928): 102. Reg. of Edward the Black Prince 4 (1933): 231. Foster Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln 3 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 29) (1935): 216-218. Carta Antigua 1 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 17) (1939): 105, 109-112 (instances of William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "brother" [fratre] by King John); 2 (Pipe Roll Soc. n.s. 33) (1960): 113 (William, Earl of Salisbury, styled "my brother" [fratre meo] by King John). Early Yorkshire Charters 6 (1939): 21-24. Painter Reign of King John (1949): 40 ("... vigorous, proud, and ambitious"), 262. Trans. Shropshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. 53 (1950): 112-114. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44 (seal of Ela, Countess of Salisbury, bears a shield displaying the arms of six lions rampant), 203 (William [Longespée], Earl of Salisbury styled "brother" [frater] to King Richard I in charter dated 1199). VCH Wiltshire 3 (1956): 275-288; 12 (1983): 67-86; 13 (1987): 79-88, 105-114; 14 (1991): 194-204; 15 (1995): 13-55, 143-153, 153-163, 178-183, 242-252. Curia Regis Rolls 12 (1957): 528-529. VCH Oxford 5 (1957): 137 (confuses history of Ada de Chaumont, wife of Roger de Akeny, with her grandmother-in-law, Ida of Hainault, wife of Roger de Tony); 11(1983): 9. Sanders English Baronies (1960): 112. Coat of Arms 7 (1962): 157-161; n.s. 10 (1994): 322-328. Genealogists' Mag. 14 (1964): 361-368. TAG 40 (1964): 47-49 incorrectly identifies William Longespée's mother as Annabel de Baliol); 77 (2002): 137-149, 279-280 (article by Ray Phair, cites Philippe II of France Les Registres de Philippe Auguste 1 (Recueil des Historiens de la France. Docs. Financiers et Administratifs 7) (1992): miscellanea no. 13). NEHGR 119 (1965): 94-102; 140 (196): 219-229. Wagner Hist. Heraldry of Britain (1972): 40 (his arms: Azure six lions rampant or). Paget Lineage & Anc. of Prince Charles 1 (1977): 14. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14, 16 (Ha styled "king's kinswoman"). London Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 114-115 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1226), 142 (two charters of William Longespée dated 1197-1209 and 1197-1216), 143 & 188 (charters naming William Longespée's mother, Countess Ida). Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(2) (1983): 356a (sub Longespée); 14 (1991): 136 (sub Vitré) (incorrect order of Ela's mother's marriages). VCH Oxford 11 (1983): 6-21. Given-Wilson Royal Bastards of Medieval England (1984): 98-102, 179. Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 338 (charter of William Longespée dated before 1227). Vincent et al. Acta of Henry II & Richard I (List & Index Soc. Special Ser. 21) (1986): 193. Fam. Hist. 14 (1987): 69-79. Kemp Reading Abbey Cartularies 2 (Camden 4th Ser. 33) (1987): 100-101 (charter of William Longespée dated c.1238-50; circular seal, nearly perfect; obverse a shield charged with six lioncels, legend: +SIGILLVM. WILL.... GESPEIE; on reverse complete counterseal, circular, long sword and baldrick, legend: +SECRETVM. WILLELM. LVNGGESPE), 101-102. Hanna Cartularies of Southwick Priory 2 (Hampshire Recs. 10) (1989): 32. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Roberts Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants (1993): 347 (1st identification of William Longespée's mother as Countess Ida Bigod, identification based on original research by Douglas Richardson). Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 152-153, 201- 202. Fryde & Greenway Handbook of British Chronology (1996): 36. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Brault Rolls of Arms Edward I 2 (1997): 378. Plantagenet Connection 10 (2002): 27-30. Johnson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 119- 124 ("According to William le Breton [a French chronicler], King John attempted to seduce [the Earl of Salisbury's wife] Ela, while Salisbury was in captivity overseas in the wake of the disastrous battle of Bouvines in 1214."). Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 301 (charters of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury). Harper-Bill Henry II: New Interpretations (2007): 331-332. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 179, 228, 281, 369, 376, 560.
      Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury:
      i. WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt. [see next].
      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 Limerick. In 1305-6 she settled the manor of Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire on herself, with reversion to her great niece, Maud la Zouche, then betrothed to Robert de Holand, Knt., afterwards 1st Lord Holand. In 1314 she was granted the manor of Avington, Berkshire for life by Thomas, Earl of Lancaster. She presented to the chapel of Wanborough, Wiltshire in 1316. In 1322, staying in England, she had letters appointing attorneys to represent her in Ireland for two years. She died shortly before 23 May 1331. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch ped.). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): App., i-v (Book of Lacock). Notes & Queries 2nd Ser. 12 (1861): 168-169, 239-240; 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Brady Clerical & Parochial Recs. of Cork, Cloyne, & Ross 1 (1863): 59. Jour. Kilkenny & South-East of Ireland Arch. Soc. n.s. 5 (1867): 139-153. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 46 (1886): 144, 160. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 391-392 (seal of Emeline Longespée - Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat head-dress, wimple, long tightly-fitting dress, fur cloak, in each hand a shield of arms. Full-face, standing on a finely carved corbel, under a carved gothic canopy with three pinnacled turrets. Arms: right a saltire, in chief over all a label of five points; left six lioncels, three, two, and one, a label of four points [LONGESPÉE]. In the field on each side a sword erect, point upwards, for LONGESPÉE, or for the office of Justiciary of Ireland. Above the sword a lion from the arms of ENGLAND. Legend: S'. EMELINE : LVNGESPEIE. Reverse. A small round counterseal. A shield of arms: as in obverse, between two swords at the sides, and a lion over the shield, as before. Legend: FOL : EST : K1 : ME : BRISERA : FOR: CELI : A KI : LA: LETTRE : VA.) [Note: Birch identifies this seal as being that of Emeline Longespée's mother, Emeline de Lacy, but Macray who reviewed various seals of Longespée family held in the Magdalen College, Oxford archives assigned this seal to the daughter which seems more likely - see Fourth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 3) (1874): 463]. Ninth Rpt. (Hist. MSS Comm. 8) (1883): 267. Wiltshire Notes & Oueries 1 (1893-5): 84-85. Genealogist n.s. 15 (1898): 1-6. Irish Ecclesiastical Rec. 4th Ser. 4 (1898): 173. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528. C.P.R 1272-1281 (1901): 300. Jour. Cork Hist. & Arch. Soc. 2nd Ser. 9 (1903): 270. C.P.R. 1321-1324 (1904): 210. Index of Placita de Banco 1327-1328 1 (PRO Lists and Indexes 17) (1904): 17; 2 (PRO Lists and Indexes 22) (1906): 709-710. Procs. of the Royal Irish Academy 25 (1904-5): 370. Cal. IPM 7 (1909): 267, 311-313. VCH Wiltshire 9 (1910): 176. Orpen Ireland under the Normans 1(1911): 390-391; 3 (1920): 118,198, 209-210; 4 (1920): 128-129 (chart incorrectly shows Juliane Fitz Maurice as daughter of Emeline Longespée). VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 158-159, 205-217. Cam Hundred & the Hundred Rolls- (1930): 276. Gandavo Reg Simonis de Gandavo Diocesis Saresbriensis 1297-13152 (Canterbury & York Soc. 41) (1934): 763. Sayles Select Cases in the Court of the King's Bench under Edward 12 (Selden Soc. 57) (1938): 72-79. Pugh Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Wiltshire (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist. Soc. Recs. Branch 1) (1939): 118, 126. Jour. Royal Soc. of Antiqs. Ireland 82 (1952): 45-61. Holmes Estates of the Higher Nobility in 14th Cent. England (1957): 134-14-0. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 57; 3 (Canterbury & York Soc. 59) (1965): 32. Pontificia Hibernica 2 (1965): 293-294, 297. Paget Lineage & Anu of Prince Charles 1(1977): 14-15. Moody et al. New Hist. of Ireland 9 (1984): 167 (chart). Stevenson Edington Cartulary (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 42) (1987): 94 (charter of Emeline Longespée dated 1315), 96, 173. Coss Lela), in Medieval England 1000-1500 (2000): 56-57.
      b. ELA LONGESPÉE, married ROGER LA ZOUCHE, Knt., of Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire [see ZOUCHE 9].
      iii. RICHARD LONGESPÉE, clerk, parson of Warminster, Wiltshire, Canon of Salisbury. He witnessed a charter for his brother, William Longespée, dated c.1236. In the period, 1250-60, he quitclaimed his common rights in the woods of his manors of Avington and Denford (in Kintbury), Berkshire to the Prior and Convent of St. Frideswide at Oxford. He died testate. He was buried at Lacock Abbey. His sister, Countess Ela, and her husband, Philip Basset, presented to the Dominicans all the lands and houses near Fleet Bridge which had formerly belonged to Richard Lungespeye. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(1) (1830): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Jones Charters & Docs. Ill. the Hist. of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 319-320. Wigram Cartulary of the Monastery of St. Friderwide at Oxford 2 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 31) (1896): 340, 342. Fry & Fry Abs. of Feet of Fines Rel. Dorset 1 (Dorset Rec. Soc. 5) (1896): 101. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 225. VCH Berkshire 4 (1924): 205-217. Hinnebusch Early English Friairs Preachers (1951): 24. Rogers Lacock Abbey Charters (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 34) (1979): 14. Greenway Fasti Ecclesia Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 118-138. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medieval London (2004): 32-34, 389.
      iv. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, clerk, Canon of Salisbury, Treasurer of Salisbury Cathedral, Bishop of Salisbury. By an unknown wife or mistress, he had one son, Nicholas, and two daughters, Alice and Isabel. In the period, 1226-36, he was granted the manor of Edgware, Middlesex and the village of Cooling, Suffolk by his widowed mother, Ela. He also acquired lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex from Thomas Esperun. In 1236 he presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire with the assent of his brother, Stephen Longespée, the patron of the church. In 1248 he was Rector of Iwerne Minster, Dorset. In 1256 he was granted letters of protection, he being "beyond seas." In 1262 he was presented as rector of the church of South Tawton, Devon by his cousin, Roger de Tony. As rector of South Tawton, Nicholas presented various individuals as vicar there in 1262, 1263, 1264, and 1278. In 1263 Nicholas was presented to the church of Wyke Regis, Dorset by the king. License for his election as Bishop of Salisbury was sought 3 Nov. 1291, which was granted 8 Nov. 1291. He was consecrated Bishop of Salisbury at Canterbury 16 March 1292, and enthroned 21 Sept. 1292. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE, Bishop of Salisbury, died 18 May 1297. His body was buried in Salisbury Cathedral, his heart at Lacock Abbey, and his viscera at Ramsbuty, Wiltshire. He left a will 14 Feb. 1294/5, proved 29 May 1297. 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): 501. Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.) (assigns William Longespée, portioner of Brocklesby Rectory, co. Lincoln, living 1324, as son of Nicholas Longespée). Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Arch. Jour. 45 (1888): 31. Hingeston-Randolph Regs. of Walter Bronescombe & Peter Quivil (1889): 181. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1 (1890): 204; 2 (1894): 61, 76, 97, 100. Rich-Jones Charters & Diocese of Salisbury (Rolls Ser. 97) (1891): 362. Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1(1892): 41, 49, 217. C.P.R. 1281-1292 (1893): 450, 464. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (Nicholas' will mentions his "kinsman," Thomas Fitz Gilbert). Wordsworth Ceremonies & Processions of the Cathedral Church of Salisbury (1901): 235 (Obit List of Salisbury Cathedral: 18 May - Obitus Nicholai Langespe Episcopi [1297]."). Wordsworth 15th Cent. Cartulary of St. Nicholas' Hospital, Salisbury (1902): 62-64. C.C.R 1288-1296 (1904): 229-230. C.P.R. 1247-1258 (1908): 461. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 301. Davis Rotuli Roberti Grosseteste Episcopi Lincolniensis 1235-1253 (Lincoln Rec. Soc. 11) (1914): 510. C.C.R 1268-1272 (1938): 208. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 43-44. Martival Regs. of Roger Martival, Bishop of Salisbury 1315-1330 1 (Canterbury & York Soc. 55) (1959): 283, 410-411. Chew Herningslys Reg. (Wiltshire Arch. & Nat. Hist Soc. Recs. Branch 18) (1963): 165-166. Sheehan Will in Medieval England (1963): 284, footnote 244 (Nicholas Longespée bequeathed body-armour and horse-armour to his men-at-arms). Smith Itinerary of John Leland 1 (1964): 264. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 155; 5 (1976): 114, 117. Clanchy Roll & Writ of the Berkshire Eyre of 1248 (Selden Soc. 90) (1973): 370. Ellis Cat. Seals in the PRO. 1 (1978): 40 (seal of Nicholas Longespée dated 13th Cent. - The Virgin, crowned, enthroned with the Child under an arcaded and pinnacled canopy; below, under a trefoil arch, the upper part of a praying figure facing to the right. Legend: SIGILL' NICOLAI LOGESPEYE). Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S. 241), 47 (Deed A.D. 267), 69 (Deed A.D. 376). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 300. Greenway Fasti Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 1066-1300 4 (1991): 1-7, 21-39. Nottingham Medieval Studies 35 (1991): 41-69; 36 (1992): 79-125. Ward Women of the English Nobility & Gentry 1066-1500 (1995): 115, 201-202. Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. Woolgar Great Household (1999): 157. Hanna Christchurch Priory Cartulary (Hampshire Rec. Ser. 18) (2007): 194. National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      Children of Nicholas Longespée, by an unknown wife or mistress, ___:
      a. NICHOLAS LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      b. ALICE LONGESPÉE, married (1st) 1260-1 GEOFFREY DE JARPENVILLE Alice's maritagium included a messuage and lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex, formerly belonging to Henry Bucointe, Knt., and land formerly held of her father, Nicholas Longespée, by Ralph de la Forde and others in a field called "Colemannesdene." They presumably had one son, Nicholas (living 1294). Before 1277 Alice's lands in Little Stanmore, Middlesex were fraudulently acquired by the moneylender, Adam de Stratton. She presumably married (2nd) WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE, of Harrow, Middlesex. They had one son, John, of Little Stanmore and Oakington (in Harrow), Middlesex (occurs 1294-1337), and one daughter, Margaret, both of whom were legatees in the 1294 will of their grandfather, Bishop Nicholas Longespée. William (husband of Alice) was also appointed one of the executors of the 1294 will of Bishop Longespée. On Adam de Stratton's disgrace in 1290, Alice presumably recovered her lands, as her son, John de Barneville, later had lands in this parish [see C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558)]. WILLIAM DE BARNEVILLE was living in 1297/8. Alice and her 2nd husband, William de Barneville, are direct ancestors of William Barnville, of Harrow, Middlesex (died c.1397), Knight of the Shire for Middlesex, whose son (or grandson), John Barnville (died before 1482), left a daughter and heiress, Elizabeth Barnville [wife of Thomas Frowick, Knt, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (died 1506) and Thomas Jakes, Esq. (died 1514)]. Foss Judges of England 5 (1857): 51-53 (biog. of Thomas Frowyk). Cass South Mimms (1877): 30, 99-100 (Barnville arms: Argent on a cross gales five lozenges wire argent and azure, in dexter quarter an eagle displayed sable). Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 41, 71, 95, 217-218, 221; 2 (1893): 14-16, 27. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 2 (1894): 61, 76, 100. C.C.R. 1327-1330 (1896): 543. C.P.R. 1313-1317 (1898): 558. C.C.R. 1333-1337 (1898): 735. English Hist. Rev. 15 (1900): 523-528 (will of Bishop Nicholas Longespée dated 1294 left a bequest as follows: "Item Johanni filio Willelmi de barneuile et Margarete sorori sue procreatis de Alicia vxore dicti W. viginti marcas"). C.P.R. 1324-1327 (1904): 229,286. List of Early Chancery Procs. 4 (PRO Lists and Indexes 29) (1908): 217, 277, 400. Mundy Middlesex Peds. (H.S.P. 65) (1914): 88-90 (Frowick ped.: "Sr Thom's Frowik of Finchley in com. Midd. = Joane, d. of ... Bardvill."). Davis Anc. of Mary Isaac (1955): 196 (chart), 255-259 [the will of Lady Elizabeth (Barnhill) (Frowick) Jakes dated 1515, proved 1516, mentions her "chapel of Okyngton [Oakington] in Harrow, Middlesex; the advowson of this place was acquired by her ancestor, John de Bameville, and his wife, Isabel, in 1317 (see Hardy & Page Cal. to Feet of Fines for London & Middlesex 1 (1892): 95; VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208)]. VCH Middlesex 4 (1971): 208; 5 (1976): 70, 83, 114 (sub Little Stanmore: "... The rest of Henry [Bucointe]’s property passed in turn to his sons, Henry and Ranulph, the second of whom retained part for his mother Joan and his two daughters but sold the rest to Thomas Espumn, who sold it to Nicholas Longespée. Nicholas gave his lands in Little Stanmore to his daughter Alice on her marriage to Geoffrey de Jarpenville, by 1277 Jarpenville's lands and those of Ranulph Bucointe's mother and daughters were fraudulently acquired by the money lender Adam de Stratton. In the meantime, ... Lucy, wife of John Pypard, and Clarice, wife of Richard de la Grave, all surrendered their rights to Adam de Stratton but regained them on his disgrace in 1290. ... John de Barnville ... presumably ... acquired part of Henry Bucointe's former estate ... [he] alienated land to the priory in 1316), 117; 6 (1980): 59,66. Ancient Deeds - Ser. AS & IFS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 41 (Deed A.S.241). Harris Edward Stafford (1986): 220. Roskell House of Commons 1386-1421 2 (1992): 132 (biog. of William Barnville). Hicks Revolution & Consumption in Late Medieval England (The 15th Cent. 2) (2001): 97 (chart). National Archives, E 40/2298; E 40/2411; E 40/2611; E 42/241 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      c. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. National Archives, E 40/2411 (available at www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp).
      v. IDA LONGESPÉE, married (1st) RALPH DE SOMERY, of Dudley (in Sedgley), Staffordshire [see BOTETOURT 6]; (2nd) WILLIAM DE BEAUCHAMP, Knt., of Bedford, Bedfordshire [see BOTETOURT 6].
      vi. MARY LONGESPÉE, married in or or about Sept. 1227, ___, an unknown husband.* Jobson English Government in the 13th Cent. (2004): 121, footnote 86, cites Hardy Rotuli Literarum Clausarum 2 (1835): 200. (*Footnote: The identity of Mary Longespée's husband is unknown. He may possibly have been Robert de Roos (or Ros), Knt. (died 1267/9), of Wark, Carham, Downham (in Carham), Mindrum (in Carham), Northumberland, Cargo (in Stanwix), Cumberland, and Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, younger son of Robert de Roos, of Helmsley, Yorkshire, by Isabel, illegitimate daughter of William the lion, King of Scots [see Richardson Magna Carta Ancestry (2010)]. Sir Robert de Roos had children named William, Isabel, and Ida, which given names occur among descendants of the Longespée family. Further research is needed, however, to establish the identity of Mary Longespée's husband.)
      vii. ISABEL LONGESPÉE. She married shortly after 16 May 1226 (as his 1st wife) WILLIAM DE VESCY, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, son and heir of Eustace de Vescy, Knt., of Alnwick, Northumberland, by Margaret, illegitimate daughter of William the Lion, King of Scots [see SCOTLAND 4.vi for his ancestry]. He was born about 1205 (minor in 1216). They had no issue. He had livery of his inheritance 16 May 1226. He accompanied King Henry III's expedition to Brittany in 1230. In 1232 and 1234 he was forbidden to attend tournaments at Blyth, Northampton, and Cambridge. He was appointed to escort King Alexander and Queen Joan of Scotland to the English court in 1235, and again in August 1237. In 1242 he went with the king to Gascony. At his wife, Isabel's death, she was buried at Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland. He married (2nd) before 1244 AGNES DE FERRERS, daughter of William de Ferrers, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, by his 1st wife, Sibyl, daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal [see FERRERS 7 for her ancestry]. Her maritagium included the manor of Stapleford, Leicestershire. They had two sons, John, Knt. [see BEAUMONT 6.vii], and William [1st Lord Vescy, Justiciar of Ireland]. His wife, Agnes, was co-heiress in 1245 to her uncle, Anselm Marshal, Earl of Pembroke. In 1245 he served in the Welsh campaign. In 1253 he had a protection, he then going with the king to Gascony. He founded the Carmelite priory at Hulne, Northumberland. SIR WILLIAM DE VESCY died in Gascony shortly before 7 October 1253, and was buried at Watton Priory, Yorkshire. In 1274-5 Ingusa de Setrington and others arraigned an assize of novel disseisin against his widow, Agnes, and others touching a tenement in Old Malton, Yorkshire. Agnes died 11 May 1290, and was buried in the Greyfriars at Scarborough, Yorkshire. Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 162-163, App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Hartshorne Feudal & Military Antiqs. of Northumberland & the Scottish Borders (Memoirs illus. of the Hist. & Antiqs. of Northumberland 2) (1858): 155 (Vescy ped.). Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Year Books of Edward I: Years XXXIII-XXXV 5 (Rolls Ser. 31a) (1879): 358-365. Clark Earls, Earldom, & Castle of Pembroke (1880): 69-75. Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 44 (1883): 177, 187, 242, 253; 45 (1885): 233; 46 (1886): 114; 47 (1886): 150. Somersetshire Pleas 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 11) (1897): 380-381. Year Books of Edward II 3 (Selden Soc. 20) (1905): 4-9. C.P. 12(2) (1959): 276-278 (sub Vescy). Hedley Northumberland Fams. 1(1968): 198-203 (Vesci ped.). Mitchell Portraits of Medieval Women (2003): 11-28. McAndrew Scotland’s Hist. Heraldry (2006): 72 (vesci ped.), 74.
      viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their older brother. In 1233 he helped free Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, from captivity in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire; in return in 1234 Hubert de Burgh gave him 176 acres of his demesne land in Soham, Cambridgeshite, with lordship over numerous tenants. In 1238-9 he was granted lands in Soham and Fordham, Cambridgeshire by Peter de Bendenges and his wife Burga. In 1242 he was appointed one of the Constables of the Host, then about to set out for Poitou. In consideration of his services there, he was granted the manor of Kersey, Suffolk -- 1243. In 1245 he was appointed ambassador to the Council of Lyons. About 1245 he obtained a license to build a chapel in Soham, Cambridgeshire and to hear service therein. In 1252 William de Wydindon demised to him land and wood of `Okregge' in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for a term of seven years; Philip promised to keep William in his service, providing him food and clothing as one of his own esquires and supplying him with another horse if his own died; the grant was made perpetual in 1254. He fought in Wales in 1258. Philip was heir in 1259 to his older brother, Fulk Basset, Bishop of London. In 1260 Simon, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, demised the manor of Stapleford Abbots, Essex to him. The same year, at the instance of his cousin, Ela, Countess of Warwick, the king granted the abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey quittance from cheminage in all the king's forests in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In 1261 he had a grant of 1000 marks per annum to maintain him in the office of Justiciar. About 1261 Laurence de Sanford granted him the manor of Lecquid, Glamorgan, Wales. In 1261-2 Thomas de Awelton and Agnes his wife conveyed lands in Doddington and Northwode, Cambridgeshire to Philip and his wife, Ela. In 1262 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife leased lands in Soham, Fordharn, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400/. in hand. In 1262 Philip leased land in Rotherwick, Hampshire from Richard de la Rugge. The same year Richard, King of the Romans, quitclaimed to him all suit of court at Wallingford, Berkshire for life. He fought on the king's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where the king was taken prisoner by the barons. In 1266 Thomas de Gay, rector of the church of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, granted Philip his free chapel at Fasterne, Wiltshire, with renunciation of all right to sell the offerings made therein; the said Philip to pay 20s. yearly to the parish church of Wootton. In 1267 the king granted him for life a deer leap at his new park below his town of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, and another at his old park below his manor of "la Fasteme." In 1267-8 his wife, Ela, gave property in Stinkinglane, in the parish of St. Nicholas de Macellis, London to the City of London for the use of the Franciscans. At an unknown date, Richard son of Richard de la Wyz released to him all his right in a meadow with pasture for six cattle in Compton, Wiltshire. Sometime before 1271 John de Burgh granted that he pay him 20s. yearly to the custody of Dover Castle, due from the manor of Beeston, which Philip holds from him. SIR PHILIP BASSET died testate 29 October 1271, and was buried at Stanley, Wiltshire. In 1278 his widow, Ela, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle, Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor, widow of John de Verdun (step-mother of Thebaud de Verdun) and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1280 Ela was summoned to show by what warrant she took the fines of the breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Maplederwell, Hampshire, and to show cause why she should not permit her villeins of Maplederwell to make suit at the king's hundred court of Basingstoke. The same year she sued Hugh de Courtenay and his wife Eleanor (Ela's step-granddaughter) for one messuage and lands in Wootton Courtney, Somerset, which she claimed to be her right by the gift of Hugh de Neville; the jury found in favor of Hugh and Eleanor. In 1289 Ela, Countess of Warwick, was summoned to answer Hugh le Despenser on a plea as to why she had committed waste in the woods which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance in Compton Bassett and Wolfhale, Wiltshire to Hugh's disinheritance. In 1290 she granted a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land in Nateley Eastrop, a croft of eight acres in Up Nately, and a messuage and garden in Maplederwell, all in Hampshire, to John, Bishop of Winchester, for use of a chantry and maintenance of a chaplain in the chapel of Maplederwell. In 1293 Hugh le Despenser confirmed the grant of Lady Ela Longespée, late the wife of Philip Basset, to Adam de Stock and Roger de Stock his brother of lands in Wolfhale, Wiltshire which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance. Ela, Countess of Warwick, died 9 Feb. 1297/8, and was buried in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch pad.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1517. Maidment Analecta Scotica: Colls. Ill. of the Civil, Eccl. & Lit. Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, sister of the King of Scotland, to Philip Basset). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 160-162 (biog. of Ela Longespée: "She was married twice; first to Thomas Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, who died June 26, 1242; secondly to Philip Basset, of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, son of William Basset, Chief Justice of England. She became the second time a widow in 1271, and survived for many years after, a very wealthy lady, having no children by either husband. In 1285 she was returned as holding the manor of Hoke-Norton in Oxfordshire, in capite, by the sergeantry of carvng before our lord the King on Christmas Day, when she had for her fee the King's knife with which she cut. We find several records of her piety, particularly in Oxford and its vicinity; for she seems to have lived during her widowhood at Headington, only two miles from that city. In the year 1287 we find the Countess of Warwick visiting Lacock, on which occasion she quit-claimed to the abbey her title in the manor of Hatherop. She died on Sunday Feb. 6, 1297, and was buried at Ousney Abbey, near Oxford, where Leland saw her tomb, 'a very fair flat marble, in the habit of a vowess, graven in a copper plate.' Two Seals of this lady are extant. The first closely resembles that of her Mother, having on one side her own figure holding a hawk, and on the other side the arms of Longespé in a shield, with a lion above and below; it is inscribed on both side S. ELE LVNGESPEYE COMITISSE WARWIC. In her second Seal, the coat of Basset (wavy Or and Gules) is substituted for that of Longespe; the latter is placed in her hand, on the obverse, instead of the hawk, and is balanced by the coat of Newburgh, (checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine) placed over her right shoulder. The inscription on both sides is SIGILLVM ELE BASSET COMITISSE WAREWYKIE. These seals are engraved in the accompanying Plate."), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 216-218 (biog. of Alan Basset), 219-221 (biog. of Philip Basset). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 499-500. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 659; 44 (1883): 185, 256, 261; 45 (1885): 314, 331; 46 (1886): 131, 236, 285, 295; 48 (1887): 85. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 574 (sub Warwick). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 21-33; 3 (1900): 85-96, 107-118. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 25, 29, 32, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 328 (seal of Thomas, 6th Earl of Warwick - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield with strengthening rib. Horse galloping. Legend: * SIGIL … OME COMIT ... WARWIC.), 376 (seal of Ela Basset, Countess of Warwick dated post A.D. 1242-Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat cap, tightly-fitted dress, mantle. In the left hand a shield of arms. Standing on a carved corbel or platform, beneath an elaborately carved canopy like a cathedral church, with central tower and transept. Arms: six lioncels, three, two, and one, for her father WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury. On the left, in the field, a similar shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine, WARWICK. Legend: S' ELE BASSET • COMITISSE • WAREWYKIE. Reverse. Pointed oval counterseal, same size. Within a circular panel, with quatrefoil opening and trefoils in the spandrils, a shield of arms: three bars wavy, BASSET. In the field two lioncels rampant, derived from her paternal arms (see obv.), one above, one below the panel. Legend: SIGILLVM : ELE : BASSET : COMITISSE : WAREVYKIE. Beaded borders.). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 107, 183, 377. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 214-215. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130. Tait Medieval Manchester & the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904): 136 (Basset ped.). Wordsworth Ancient Kalendar of the Univ. of Oxford 45 (1904): 60, 63, 82, 83. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 29 (Ela, Countess of Warwick, styled "king's cousin" by King Henry III in 1260). CP.R 1247-1258 (1908): 42, 133 (instances of Ela [Longespée], Countess of Warwick, styled "king's kinswoman"). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 378; 4 (1911): 99-101, 149-152, 176-179, 567-577. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 224-225. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 150-152. Salter Cartulary of Oseney Abbey 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 89) (1919): xx (Kal. Mardi [1 March]: obit of Countess Ela), 191-192. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 492-498; 4 (1924): 168-174. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 135-140; 4 (1927): 260-263. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 80-82. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 197, 244-245. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 132. Budgen & Salzman “Wiltshire, Devonshire & Dorsetshire Portion of the Lewes Chartulary" in Chartulary of Lewes Priory: The Portions Rel. to other Counties than Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. Addl. Vol.) (1943): 26 (charter of Philip Basset). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 6 (1951): 273-280. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 760-761. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 306-307 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1262). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset) ("Philip [Basset] ... established a reputation for integrity, unequaled in the era in which he lived."). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 365 (sub Warwick). Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9805. Ancient Deeds - Ser. Al (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 177. Ancient Deeds-Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 17. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 4 (seal of Philip Basset dated 1266-A shield of arms: three bars wavy [BASSET]. A crescent above the shield and a star on either side). Ancient Deeds-Set. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.24), 7 (Deed A.D.36), 45 (Deed A.S.254). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 110-111. Humphries Kirtlington: An Oxfordshire Village (1986): 13. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 212 (Basset ped.). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. VCH Oxford 13 (1996): 118-127. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413-428. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medeval London (2004): 32-34, 46-47, 339. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 4 (Selden Soc. 123) (2007): 407-409. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 441 (Henry d'Oilly styled "kinsman" by Thomas of Warwick in 1232-3).
      ix. IDA LONGESPÉE, married WALTER FITZ ROBERT, Knt., of Woodham Walter, Essex [see FITZ WALTER 7].”

      2. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “WILLIAM DE FERRERS, Knt., 5th Earl of Derby, Constable of Bolsover Castle, 1235-6, son and heir, born about 1193. He married (1st) before 14 May 1219 SIBYL MARSHAL, died before 1238, 3rd daughter of William Marshal, Knt., 4th Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil), hereditary Master Marshal, by Isabel, daughter of Richard Fitz Gilbert (nicknamed "Strongbow”), 2nd Earl of Pembroke (or Strigoil) [see MARSHAL 3 for her ancestry]. They had seven daughters, Agnes, Isabel, Maud, Sibyl, Joan, Agatha (wife of Hugh de Mortimer), and Eleanor. He was afflicted from youth with gout, and habitually travelled in a chariot or litter. He accompanied the king to France in 1230. He married (2nd) in or before 1238 MARGARET (or MARGERY) DE QUINCY, daughter and co-heiress of Roger de Quincy, 2nd Earl of Winchester, by his 1st wife, Ellen, daughter and co-heiress of Alan Fitz Roland, lord of Galloway, hereditary Constable of Scotland [see QUINCY 7 for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Robert, Knt. [6th Earl of Derby], and William, Knt., and three daughters, Elizabeth, Joan, and Agnes. He had livery of Chardey Castle and the rest of his mother's lands 10 Nov. 1247. He was invested with the Earldom of Derby 2 Feb. 1247/8. In 1245 he was granted respite of forest offences because he "laboured under infirmity." He presented to the church of Brington, Northamptonshire in 1250. While passing over a bridge at St. Neots, Hunting