Edward of Salisbury

Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1081.

Events

Date of Birth: before 1060.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (11:373).

Place of Birth: unknown.

The Complete Peerage (11:373) states that “it is said” that he was born in England. Thomas accepts that he was English.

Date of Death: 1130, before Michaelmas.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Sanders (p. 112)

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Thomas (p. 312) notes that the suggestion that Edward's mother was Wulfwen, who was Edward's predecessor in nearly a third of his land, "is certainly possible, though, if so, it is surprising that Domesday Book did not note it in the eleven entries in six counties and two circuits in which he succeeded her." Thomas argues that "Edward was one of William the Conqueror's new men, albeit it a native one."

Spouse: Matilda.

This relationship is given by van Houts (p. 264). Matilda was later the wife of Hasculf de Tony. Keats-Rohan (p. 701) states that Matilda was Edward's second wife, and was probably a daughter of Ralph fitz Hubert.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes Keats-Rohan.)

Maud married Humphrey de Bohun.

Walter de Salisbury (died 1147) married Sibyl de Chaources.

Edward de Salisbury married Adelisa de Raimes.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Dugdale, William. Monasticon Anglicanum (London: 1817-1840) 6 Volumes.

“Edward of Salisbury” at Open Domesday (accessed 11 June 2014).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Sanders, Ivor John. English Baronies (Oxford: 1960).

Thomas, Hugh M. "The Significance and Fate of the Native English Landholders of 1086" in The English Historical Review, vol. 118, no. 476 (Apr., 2003), pp. 303-333

Van Houts, Elisabeth. “Intermarriage in Eleventh-Century England” in Normandy and Its Neighbours, 900-1250 (Belgium: Brepols, 2011), pp. 237-270.

White, Graeme. “Bohun, Humphrey (III) de, (b. before 1144, d. 1181)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).