LONGSPEE, Ela: Among Our Ancestors

1245 - 1276 (31 years)

Generation: 1

1.	LONGSPEE, Ela was born in 1245 (daughter of LONGESPEE, Stephen and DE RIDELISFORD, Emeline); died in 1276. Family/Spouse: LA ZOUCHE, Sir Roger. Sir died in 1285. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] Children: LA ZOUCHE, Alan was born in 1267; died in 1314.

Generation: 2

LONGESPEE, Stephen was born in 1216 (son of LONGESPEE, William and SALISBURY, Ela of); died in 1260.

Other Events and Attributes:

Relation to Me: 24 GGF
Royalty & Nobility: Justiciary of Ireland

Stephen + DE RIDELISFORD, Emeline. Emeline (daughter of Living and Living) was born in 1220; died in 1276. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
DE RIDELISFORD, Emeline was born in 1220 (daughter of Living and Living); died in 1276.
Children:

1. LONGSPEE, Ela was born in 1245; died in 1276.

Generation: 3

LONGESPEE, William was born in 1176 (son of HENRY, II and DE TOSNY, Ida); died in 1225.

Other Events and Attributes:

Relation to Me: 25 GGF
Royalty & Nobility: Earl of Salisbury

Notes:

Bastard son of King Henry II

William + SALISBURY, Ela of. Ela (daughter of FITZPATRICK, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset William and Living) was born in 1187; died in 1261. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

SALISBURY, Ela of was born in 1187 (daughter of FITZPATRICK, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset William and Living); died in 1261.

Other Events and Attributes:

Books About: Ladies of the Magna Carta
Relation to Me: 25 GGM
Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Salisbury

Notes:

In 1196, she succeeded her father as suo jure 3rd Countess of Salisbury. There is a story that immediately following her father's death she was imprisoned in a castle in Normandy by one of her paternal uncles who wished to take her title and enormous wealth for himself. According to the legend, Ela was eventually rescued by William Talbot, a knight who had gone to France where he sang ballads under windows in all the castles of Normandy until he received a response from Ela

Ela has been described as having been "one of the two towering female figures of the mid-13th century", the other one being Margaret de Quincy, Countess of Lincoln.

Children:

2. LONGESPEE, Stephen was born in 1216; died in 1260.
LONGSPEE, William II was born before 12 May 1205 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England; died on 7 Feb 1249 in Egypt.

6. Living
Living + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
7.
Living
Children:

3. DE RIDELISFORD, Emeline was born in 1220; died in 1276.

Generation: 4

HENRY, II was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France (son of PLANTAGENET, Count of Anjou Geoffroy V and MATILDA, Empress); died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

Differentiator: Henry II appears as a character in several modern plays and films. He is a central character in James Goldman's 1966 play The Lion in Winter, set in 1183 and presenting an imaginary encounter between Henry's immediate family and Philip Augustus over Christmas at Chinon.
Relation to Me: 26 GGF
Royalty & Nobility: Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, Lord of Ireland
Royalty & Nobility: King of England
Name: Henry II Curtmantle Plantagenet
Birth: 5 Mar 1133, Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France
Death: 6 Jul 1189, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France

Notes:

Henry was not a popular king and few expressed much grief on news of his death. Writing in the 1190s, William of Newburgh commented that "in his own time he was hated by almost everyone"; he was widely criticised by his own contemporaries, even within his own court. Many of the changes Henry introduced during his long rule, however, had major long-term consequences. His legal changes are generally considered to have laid the basis for English Common Law, with the Exchequer court a forerunner of the later Common Bench at Westminster. Henry's itinerant justices also influenced his contemporaries' legal reforms: Philip Augustus' creation of itinerant bailli, for example, clearly drew on the Henrician model. Henry's intervention in Brittany, Wales and Scotland also had a significant long-term impact on the development of their societies and governmental systems.

II + DE TOSNY, Ida. Ida (daughter of DE TONY, Ralph and LEICESTER, Margaret of) was born about 1155; died before 1221. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

DE TOSNY, Ida was born about 1155 (daughter of DE TONY, Ralph and LEICESTER, Margaret of); died before 1221.

Other Events and Attributes:

Books About: For the King's Favor by Elizabeth Chadwick
Books About: The Time of Singing by Elizabeth Chadwick
Differentiator: Royal ward and mistress to King Henry II, mothering one of his illegitimate sons
Relation to Me: 23 GGM
Royalty & Nobility: Countess of Norfolk

Notes:

Before she was married, Ida was the mistress of King Henry II, by whom she was the mother of William Longspee, Knight and Earl of Salisbury

Ida de Tosny and her husband Roger are the main characters in Elizabeth Chadwick's The Time of Singing (Sphere, 2008), published in the USA as For the King's Favor. They appear as minor characters in other of her books set at the same time, notably To Defy a King, which concerns the marriage of their son Hugh to Maud, a daughter of William Marshal

Children:

4. LONGESPEE, William was born in 1176; died in 1225.

10.	FITZPATRICK, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset William was born in 1150 (son of SALISBURY, Patrick of and DE TALVAS, Adelia); died in 1196. Other Events and Attributes: Royalty & Nobility: 2nd Earl of Salisburt Name: William of Salisbury William + Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

11.
Living
Children:

5. SALISBURY, Ela of was born in 1187; died in 1261.