Ela FitzPatrick , Countess of Salisbury 
Ela was born in 1188 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England. Ela's father was William FitzPatrick , 2nd Earl of Salisbury and her mother was Eleanor de Vitre , Heir of Cooling. She had a half-sister named Joan. She died at the age of 73 on August 24th, 1261 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England.General Notes
Earldom of Salisbury: Although William Longespee held the Earldom of Salisbury, albeit in right of his wife, his eldest son and heir Sir William (I) Longespee did not succeed to the dignity. Nor did Sir William's son, Sir William (II) Longespee. The position was complicated by the fact that Ela/Isabel outlived both her son and grandson. Accordingly after her death in 1261, her great-granddaughter, Sir William II's daughter Margaret, came to be regarded by much later writers as de jure Countess of Salisbury, although she was referred to by that title in at least two documents dating from 1311, five years at most after her death. Yet neither Margaret nor her husband Henry de Lacy, Earl of Lincoln, styled themselves Countess/Earl of Salisbury. [Burke's Peeerage, p. 2532]
Ela and William I were married in a religious ceremony in 1198. They had two sons and two daughters, named William II, Stephen de, Ida (Idonea) and Isabel.
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Children
Ida (Idonea) Longespee
Ida (Idonea) was born about 1206 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. She died after 1266.
William II Longespee , Sir Knight
William II was born about 1207 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died in Slain by Saracens at Battle of Mansura, Nile Delta, Egypt.
Isabel Longespee
Isabel was born about 1209 in Salisbury Castle, Wiltishire, England. She died before 1244 in Alnwick Abbey, Northumberland, England (dsp).
Stephen de Longespee , Earl of Ulster
Stephen de was born in 1216 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. He died in of Sutton, Northampshire, England.
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