SALISBURY, Ela of

1187 - 1261  (74 years)

 Set As Default Person

• Name	SALISBURY, Ela of
  Birth	1187
  Gender	Female
  Books About	Ladies of the Magna Carta
  		At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
  Relation to Me	25 GGM
  Royalty & Nobility	Countess of Salisbury
  Death	1261
  Person ID	I7238	My Genealogy | Laviolette Ancestry, Laviolette Ancestry
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	FITZPATRICK, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset William,   b. 1150   d. 1196 (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Living
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F7016	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	LONGESPEE, William,   b. 1176   d. 1225 (Age 49 years)
  Children	+ 1. LONGESPEE, Stephen,   b. 1216   d. 1260 (Age 44 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 2. LONGSPEE, William II,   b. Bef 12 May 1205, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d. 7 Feb 1249, Egypt (Age > 43 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1761	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	4 Feb 2024

  
  

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  Documents

  Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury - Wikipedia

  
  

• 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.