Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury
Noble person
1187 – 1261
Who was Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury?
Ela of Salisbury, 3rd Countess of Salisbury was a wealthy English heiress and the suo jure Countess of Salisbury, having succeeded to the title in 1196 upon the death of her father, William FitzPatrick, 2nd Earl of Salisbury. Her husband William Longespée, an illegitimate half-brother of kings Richard I of England and John of England assumed the title of 3rd Earl of Salisbury by right of his marriage to Ela, which took place in 1196 when she was nine years old.
Ela held the post of High Sheriff of Wiltshire for two years after William's death, then became a nun, and eventually Abbess of Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire which she had founded in 1229.
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- Born
- 1187
Amesbury - Also known as
- Ela FitzPatrick, Countess of Salisbury
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- Nationality
- Kingdom of England
- Died
- Aug 24, 1261
Lacock Abbey
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on July 23, 2013
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