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Sir William Longespee

Male Abt 1207 - 1250  (~ 43 years)


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  • Name Sir William Longespee  [1, 2, 3
    Born Abt 1207  St. Edmunds, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1233 
    Knighted by the King at Gloucester, Whitsuntide, England 
    Occupation 1240-1242 
    Made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land 
    Military 1242-1243 
    Took part in an expedition to France where he fought at Saintes 
    Occupation 1247 
    Assumed the cross for a second pilgrimage to the Holy Land and proceeded to Rome 
    Military 1249 
    Leader of the 200 English crusader knights (7th Crusade) 
    Occupation Lord Salisbury 
    Died 8 Feb 1250  Mansourah, Nile Delta, Egypt Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Slain in battle with the Saracens 
    Buried Removed to Acre Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I5447  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father William Longue-Épée of Salisbury,   b. 1176, Woodstock Manor, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1226, Salisbury Castle, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 50 years) 
    Mother Ela of Salisbury,   b. 1191, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1261, Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 1198  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F1849  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Idoine de Camville,   b. Abt 1209, Brattleby, West Lindsey, Lincolnshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 21 Sep 1252  (Age ~ 43 years) 
    Married Jun 1226 
    Children 
     1. Ela Longespee,   b. 1228, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Nov 1299  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2792  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume 1, p. 338 & Vol. XI, pp. 382-383.

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 107 & 175.

    3. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 111:122-29.