Ela (died 1174)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

(supposed) Date of Death: 4 October 1174.

The Complete Peerage (12/1:497) states that she “is said to have died” on this date.

Relationships

Father: Guillaume Talvas (died 1171), count of Ponthieu.

This relationship is given by Chandler (ODNB), by Power, by Keats-Rohan (p. 236, p. 245), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497).

Mother: Ela (died 1141), daughter of Eudes Borel, duke of Burgundy.

This relationship is given by Chandler (ODNB), by Power, by Keats-Rohan (p. 236, p. 245) and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497).

Spouse: William (III) de Warenne (about 1119 - 1148), 3rd earl of Surrey.

This relationship is given by Chandler (ODNB), by Power, by Keats-Rohan (p. 236, p. 245), and by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497).

Spouse: Patrick de Salisbury (died 1168), 1st earl of Wiltshire or Salisbury.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (12/1:497) and by Keats-Rohan (p. 245).

Children (by William):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Isabel de Warenne (died 12 July 1203) married (1) William de Blois, 4th earl of Surrey; married (2) Hamelin de Warenne, 5th earl of Surrey.

Children (by Patrick):

William fitz Patrick (died 1196), earl of Salisbury, married Eleanor de Vitré.

Patrick fitz Patrick.

Philip fitz Patrick.

Walter fitz Patrick.

References

Cawley, Charles. “Ela de Ponthieu” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Chandler, Victoria. “Warenne, William (III) de, third earl of Surrey (c. 1119-1148)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).

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) Volumes 5, 12.

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

Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).