Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury

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Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury (around 1254, † 1309 ) was an English noblewoman.

Margaret Longespée was the only child of William III Longespée and Maud de Clifford , so she was the heir to her father's estates and the title of Earl of Salisbury . Her father was badly wounded in a tournament in 1256 and therefore entrusted Margaret de Lacy, Countess of Lincoln , Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester , Hugh le Despenser and Walter de Ludham to negotiate for her with Henry de Lacy , the young heir by Edmund de Lacy, 2nd Earl of Lincoln to marry. After extensive negotiations, the marriage was confirmed by the king on December 23, 1256. Shortly afterwards Margaret's father died, whereupon the king appointed her father-in-law Edmund de Lacy as her guardian. When he suddenly died in 1258, the king appointed Margaret de Lacy and Edmund's widow Adelasia to be administrators of the Lacy's estates.

The wedding of the two young heirs took place in 1257. Margaret had at least three children from her marriage to Henry de Lacy:

  • Edmund († 1308)
  • John
  • Alice (1281-1348)

Her two sons both died in an accident and left no heirs, making her daughter Alice, who was married to Thomas of Lancaster , her heir. A few months after her death, her husband married the young Joan Martin , but died a little later, making Alice his heir.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JS Hamilton: Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln (1249-1311). 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
  2. ^ Louise J. Wilkinson: Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2007. ISBN 978-0-86193-285-6 , p. 55
  3. ^ Louise J. Wilkinson: Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2007. ISBN 978-0-86193-285-6 , p. 56
predecessor Office successor
Ela of Salisbury Countess of Salisbury
1261-1309 		Thomas of Lancaster
personal data
SURNAME Margaret Longespée, 4th Countess of Salisbury
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH around 1254
DATE OF DEATH 1309