Ela Longespée (noblewoman, † before 1299)
Ela Longespée (married as Ela Audley ) († before November 22, 1299) was an English noblewoman.
Ela Longespée was a daughter of William Longespée of Salisbury and his wife Idoine de Camville . Her parents married between 1226 and 1230. In 1244 Ela married James Audley , a baron with possessions in Staffordshire and Shropshire . She brought the estate of Stratton in Oxfordshire with her as a dowry . Ela probably lived separately from her husband from 1266 onwards, but after his death in 1272 she was entitled to a Wittum . With her husband, she had at least five sons and one daughter, including:
- James Audley (1250-1273)
- Henry Audley (1251-1276)
- William Audley (1253-1282)
- Nicholas Audley (before 1258-1299)
- Hugh Audley (around 1267 - around 1325)
Eventually, after the death of her older sons, her fourth son, Nicholas Audley, inherited her husband's estates. His inheritance was considerably diminished by his mother's wittism. Ela left it to her youngest son, Hugh Audley Stratton, which was part of her dowry.
Web links
- Ela Longespée on thepeerage.com , accessed December 5, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thelma W. Lancaster: The barons Audley of Heley Castle and Hulton Abbey . In: Transactions of the North Staffordshire Field Club, New Ser., 19 (1993/1994), p. 15
- ↑ Simon Lloyd: Audley, James (d.1272). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Longespée, Ela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Audley, Ela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | after 1226 |
| DATE OF DEATH | before November 22, 1299 |