William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury

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William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury († 1196 ) was an Anglo-Norman nobleman. He is generally known as the Earl of Salisbury , but was most notably the Earl of Wiltshire , to whom his father was named by Empress Matilda (Empress Maud) around 1143 . He is also called William FitzPatrick .

William of Salisbury was the son and heir of Patrick of Salisbury, 1st Earl of Salisbury , Earl of Wiltshire, and Ela Talvas, daughter of William III. Talvas , Count of Ponthieu and Count of Alençon .

In the service of King Richard

William carried the golden scepter at the coronation of King Richard I in 1189, but when the king was captured in Germany in 1192 he was one of those who joined the then Count of Mortain , who later became (1199) King John of England has been. In 1194 he was High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset , took part in the spring of 1194, after Richard's return and now again at his side, in the Great Council ( court day ), which met in Nottingham . William was one of four earls who wore the canopy at Richard's second coronation that same year. During this period, 1196, William of Salisbury died. He was buried in Bradenstoke Priory .

family

William of Salisbury married Aliénor de Vitré (Eleonore), daughter of Robert III, Sire de Vitré ( House of Vitré ), and Emma de Dinan. He died without male offspring. The only daughter and thus heir of William and Aliénor was Ela of Salisbury , 3rd Countess of Salisbury, which almost immediately - so even as a child - of King Richard the Lionheart and his half-brother William Longespée was married, which thus on their behalf ( iure uxoris ) Earl of Salisbury.

literature

  • Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages , Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883
  • George Edward Cokayne , The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom Extant, Extinct, or Dormant ; first edition; second revised edition by the Hon. Vicary Gibbs et al., entries under Salisbury and Wiltshire

Remarks

  1. ^ Cokayne, p. 729
  2. ↑ Burke, p. 168
predecessor Office successor
Patrick of Salisbury Earl / Countess of Salisbury
1168-1196 		Ela of Salisbury


personal data
SURNAME William of Salisbury, 2nd Earl of Salisbury
ALTERNATIVE NAMES William FitzPatrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Earl of Salisbury, Earl of Wiltshire, High Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset
DATE OF BIRTH 12th Century
DATE OF DEATH 1196