Sir Knight William Plantagenet Longspee 
William was born about 1200 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England. William's father was Prince William de Longspee of England and his mother was Ela Devereux. His paternal grandparents were King Henry Curtmantle FitzEmpress ("Plantagenet") Plantagenet II of England and Rosamunde Clifford; his maternal grandparents were William fitzPatrick Devereux of Salisbury and Eleanor de Vitre. He had a brother and two sisters, named Stephen, Isabell and Ida. He died due to slain by Saracens in Al-Mansura, On The Nile, Egypt. He was buried in Acre, Palestine.General Notes
2nd Earl of Salisbury
died: Mansura, Nile Delta, Egypt
Note: William de Longespee,eldest son of William, Earl of Salisbury, "commonly called," says Sir William Dugdale, "by Matthew Paris, and most of our other historians, Earl of Salisbury, but erroneous, for all records wherein mention is made of his do not give him that title, but called him barely William Longespee. Nay, there is an old chronicle who saith expressly, that, in anno 12233 (17th Henry III), he was girt with the sword of knighthood, but not made Earl of Salisbury." This William made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 1240, and again in 1247, having assumed the cross for a second pilgrimage, proceeded to Rome, and thus preferred a suit to the sovereign pontiff. "Sir, you see that I am signed with the cross and am on my journey with the King of France to fight in this pilgrimage. My name is great and of note, viz., William Longespee, but my estate is slender, for the king of England, my kinsman and liege lord, hath bereft me of the title of earl and of that estate, but this he did judiciously, and not in displeasure, and by the impulse of his will; therefore I do not blame him for it. Howbeit, I am necessitated to have recourse to your holiness for favour, desiring your assistance in this distress. We see here (quoth he) that Earl Richard (of Cornwall) who, though he is not signed with the cross, yet, through the especial grace of your holiness, he hath got very much money from those who are signed, and therefore, I, who am signed and in want, do intreat the like favour." The pope taking into consideration the elegance of his manner, the efficacy of his reasoning, and the comeliness of his person, conceded in part what he desire; whereupon he received above 1,000 marks from those who had been so signed. In about two years after this, anno 1249, having received the blessing of his noble mother, Ela, then abbess of Lacock, he commenced his journey at the head of a company of 200 English horse and, being received with great respect by the king of France, joined that monarch's army. In Palestine he became subsequently pre-eminently distinguished and fell, in 1250, in a great conflict with the Saracens, near Damieta, having previously kill above 100 of the enemy with his own hand. It was reported that, the bight before the battle, his mother Ela, the abbess, saw in a vision the heavens open and her son armed at all parts (whose shield she well knew), received with joy by the angels. Remembering the occurrence when the news of his death reached her in six months after, she held up her hands, and, with a cheerful countenance, said, "I, thy handmaid, give thanks to thee, O Lord, that out of my sinful flesh thou hast caused such a champion against thine enemies to be born." It was also said that, in 1252, when messengers were sent to the Soldan of Babylon for redemption of those who had been taken prisoner, he thus addressed them -- "I marvel at you, Christians, who reverence the bones of the dead, why you inquire not for those of the renowned and right noble William Longespee, because there be many things reported of them (whether fabulous or not I cannot say), viz., that, in the dark of the night there have been appearances at his tomb, and that to some, who called upon his God, many things were bestowed from Heaven. For which cause, and in regard of his great worth and nobility of birth, we have caused his body to be here intombed." Whereupon the messenger desiring it, the remains were delivered to them by the Soldan, and thence conveyed to Acre where they were buried in the church of St. Cross. This eminent and heroic personage m. Idonea, dau. and heir of Richard de Camville, and had issue, William de Longespee, his son and heir. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 168, d'Evereux, Earls of Salisbury]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1043 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1106 in Anjou, France
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem, Israel
- b.~ 1059 in Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.14 Feb 1117 in Fontevrault, , France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, France
- b.~ 1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110
- b.~ 1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- d.1097
- b.05 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon Castle, Anjou, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.14 Oct 1028 in Falaise, Normandy, France d.09 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.Sep 1068 in Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in St. Denis-le-Fermont, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Normandie, France
- b.Aug 1102 in Winchester d.10 Sep 1167 in Rouen, Normandy, France
- b.ABT 1031/1033 in Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England
- b.ABT 1079/1080 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b.1042/1045 in Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.~ 1173 in Woodstock Manor, England d.7 Mar 1225/1226 in England
- b.1034 in Normandy, France d.1084
- b.ABT 1079/1088 in Lahnyndhry Castle, Wales d.1129 in Bronlys, Breconshire, Wales
- b.ABT 1113/1127 in Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England d.1187/1190 in Godstow, Oxfordshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Gloucestershire, England d.< 1129 in Gloucestershire, England
- b.~ 1081 in Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Ballon, Maine, France d. in England
- b.~ 1137 d.1176
- b.1027/1028 in Flamsted, Hertfordshire, England d.24 Mar 1101/1102
- b.~ 1088 in Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England d.~ 1126
- b.1056
- b.ABT 1109/1118 in Flamstead, Herefordshire d.1185
- b.~ 1046 in Northumberland, England d.31 May 1076 in St. Giles Hill, Winchester, England
- b.~ 1092 in Clifford Castle, Clifford, Herefordshire, England
- b.1054/1055 in Lens, Artois, France
- b.~ 1200 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.7 Feb 1249/1250 in Al-Mansura, On The Nile, Egypt
- b.< 1060 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.< 1130
- b.~ 1100 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.1147 in Chitterne, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1070 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1135 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.~07 Apr 1168 in Battle In Piotou
- b.~ 1052 in Chaworth, Nottinghamshire, England d.1086
- b.~ 1112 in Kempsford, Gloucestershire, England d.< 1147 in Near The Choir, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1074 in Toddington, Bedfordshire, England
- b.~ 1154 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England d.17 Apr 1196
- b.~ 1084 in D'alencon, Normandy, France
- b.~ 1124 in D'alencon, Normandy, France d.04 Dec 1174 in Priory Of, Bradenstoke, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1191 in Amesbury, Wiltshire, England d.24 Aug 1261 in Lacock, Wiltshire, England
- b.ABT 1054/1057 in Vitre, Bretagne, France
- b.1090 in Vitre,Bretagne,France d.May 1161 in Vitre,Bretagne,France
- b.~ 1054 in Mortagne, S-Mnch, France
- b.1120 in Vitre,Bretagne,France d.11 Nov 1173 in Vitre,Bretagne,France
- b.ABT 1069/1094 in Brittany, France
- b.1099/1105 in Vitre,Bretagne,France d.1146
- b.ABT 1073/1094 in Brittany, France
- b.~ 1158 in Vitre,Bretagne,France d.Aug 1233 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.~ 1065 in Dinham, Brittany, France d.ABT 1120/1138
- b.~ 1088 in Dinham, Brittany, France d.~ 1150
- b.~ 1069 in Penthievre, Brittany, France d.1177
- b.ABT 1130/1136 in Dinan, Cotes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France
- b.ABT 1064/1065 in Penthievre, Morbihan, Bretagne, France d.1135 in St Marys, York, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1092 in Brittany
- b.ABT 1064/1072 in Brittany, France d.21 Feb 1133/1134 in Richmond upon Thames, Middlesex, England
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‌William and Idoine were married in a religious ceremony in June 1226. They had a son and two daughters, named Richard, Ela and Ida.
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