Ela Longespée (noblewoman, † 1298)
Ela Longespée (married as Ela de Beaumont, Countess of Warwick and as Ela Basset ) († February 9, 1298 ) was an English noblewoman.
Ela Longespée was a younger daughter of William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury and his wife Ela of Salisbury . Her father died in 1226. Her first marriage was Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick . Her husband died in 1242, the marriage had remained childless. Margaret de Beaumont , a sister of her husband, became his heir, but the inheritance was considerably reduced by the Wittum , which Ela was entitled to for life. In his second marriage, Ela married the Baron Philip Basset in 1254 or 1255 . Basset served as justiciar to King Henry III from 1261 to 1263 . He died in 1271; this marriage, too, had remained childless. Ela also outlived her second husband by many years.
Web links
- Ela Longespée on thepeerage.com , accessed December 5, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Plessis, John de, seventh earl of Warwick (d. 1263). 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
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| SURNAME | Longespée, Ela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | De Beaumont, Ela, Countess of Warwick; Basset, Ela |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English nobles |
| DATE OF BIRTH | before 1226 |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 1298 |