Events
Date of Birth: about 1191.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (11:379). It notes (11:382) that the Lacock account of Ela’s life gives 1187.
Date of Death: 24 August 1261.
Place of Burial: Lacock Abbey.
The date and place are given by the Complete Peerage (11:382).
Relationships
Father: William, second earl of Salisbury.
Mother: Eleanor de Vitré.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (11:379).
Spouse: William Longespee, earl of Salisbury.
This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (11:379) and by Strickland.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William Longespee (born in or after 1190 - died 8 February 1250 in Mansourah, Egypt) married Idonea de Camville.
Richard, cannon of Salisbury.
Stephen Longespee (died 1260) married Emeline de Ridelisford.
Nicholas (died 1297), bishop of Salisbury.
Isabel married William de Vescy.
Ela married (1) Thomas, earl of Warwick; married (2) Sir Philip Basset.
Ida said to have married (1) Walter FitzRobert; married (2) William de Beauchamp of Bedford.
Pernelle.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Henry II of England” in The Henry Project.
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).
Strickland, Matthew. “Longespee, William (I), third earl of Salisbury” in The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004).