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Birth:          1244 of Salisbury, Wiltshire, England
Death:          Jul 1276 
Burial:         10 Jul 1276 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ela_of_Salisbury,_3rd_Countess_of_Salisbury
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_la_Zouche_(1205%E2%80%931270)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ela_Longespee
Ela Longespee, Lady of Ashby (1244 – c. 19 July 1276) was a wealthy heiress and 
daughter of Stephen Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland, and Emmeline de Riddlesford, 
granddaughter of Walter de Riddlesford.[1] She was the wife of Sir Roger La Zouche, 
Lord of Ashby.

Family[edit]

Ela was born in 1244 at Salisbury, Wiltshire and was the eldest daughter and co-
heiress of Stephen Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland, Seneschal of Gascony, and son of 
William Longespee, the illegitimate son of Henry II. Her paternal grandmother was Ela, 
Countess of Salisbury, who had founded Lacock Abbey, and for whom she was 
named. Her maternal grandmother was the daughter of Henry FitzRoy (d. 1158). Ela 
had a younger sister, Emmeline, who became the second wife of Maurice FitzGerald, 
3rd Lord of Offaly in 1273.

Marriage and issue[edit]

In about 1266 in Northamptonshire, she married Sir Roger La Zouche, Lord of Ashby, 
the son of Sir Alan La Zouche and Helen de Quincy. Their marriage produced one 
son:
Alan la Zouche, 1st Baron la Zouche of Ashby (19 October 1267 – 25 March 1314), 
married Eleanor de Segrave, by whom he had three daughters.

Ela died on about 19 July 1276 at the age of 32. Her younger sister Emmeline, was 
co-heiress to their father and the wife of Maurice fitz Maurice. She had one daughter, 
Juliana, who married Thomas de Clare, lord of Thomond. Emeline battled her daughter, 
Juliana, and her step-daughter Amabilia (Maurice's daughter from a previous marriage) 
for many years for her dower.[2] Juliana had been granted in frankmarriage to Thomas 
de Clare, and Maurice had given Inchiquin and Youghal, both in co. Cork, to the 
newly-wed couple. Amabilia and John fitz Thomas (later the first earl of Kildare) spent 
many years trying to recover the marriage lands from Juliana and dower lands from 
Emmeline.[3]

Parents
LONGESPEE Stephen (ABT 1214 - 1260)
DE RIDDLESFORD Emmeline (ABT 1216 - 1276)

Siblings
LONGESPEE Ela (Eleanor) (1244 - Jul 1276)

Marriage To LA ZOUCHE Roger (ABT 1242 - BEF 15 Oct 1285)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
LA ZOUCHE Alan II (1205 - 10 Aug 1270)
DE QUINCY Helen (Ellen) (ABT 1222 - BEF 20 Aug 1296)

Children by LA ZOUCHE Roger ABT 1242 - BEF 15 Oct 1285
LA ZOUCHE Alan (9 Oct 1267 - 25 Mar 1314)

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