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Ela (Longespée) Audley (abt. 1224 - abt. 1299)

Ela Audley formerly Longespée aka de Longespee
Born about in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Englandmap
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Wife of — married 1244 [location unknown]
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Died about at about age 75 in Heleigh Castle, Audley, Staffordshire, Englandmap
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Biography

Ela Longespee was born about 1222 at Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.

She was the daughter of William Lungespei.[1]

Ella was married to James de Aldithele or Audithele[1] James de Audley, Knt, was of Heleigh in Audley, Staffordshire, England.

On 16 July, 56 Henry III [1272], a writ of certiorari was issued on the complaint of Ella, late the wife of James de Aldithele alias de Audithele, that the escheator had taken into the king's hand the manors of Stratton and Wechewik, which were of her free marriage of the gift of her father William Lungespei. The resultant inquisition into James' estate found his son, James, aged 22 and more, was his heir, and the manors of Stretton and Wrechewic, Oxfordshire, were held of the fee of Henry de Laci, and were given in free marriage with the said Ella to the said James.[1]

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 J E E S Sharp and A E Stamp, ed., Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office, Volume I, Henry III, (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1904), 261. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/calendarinquisi00offigoog/page/261/mode/1up : accessed 11 November, 2022). Abstract No 788. James de Aldithele alias de Audithele. [C. Hen. III. File 41. (1.)]

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LONGESPEE ELA Wife of James I Audley, daughter of William II Longespee

[Calendar Inquisitions Post Mortem HIII VI] 788 James de Audley. Writ of certiorari 16 July 56HIII, on complaint of Ella, late the wife of the said James, that the escheator had taken into the king's hand the manors of Stratton and Wechewik, which were of her free marriage of the gift of her father William Longespee. James his son, aged 22 and more, is her heir. Stretton and Wrechewic manors in Oxfordshire, are held of the fee of Henry de Lacy, and were given in free marriage with the said Ella to the said James.

[Calendar of Fine Rolls HIII] No date [July] 1272. Memorandum that the king has retained to himself the power of giving to the wife of the aforementioned James from all the lands and tenements formerly of the aforesaid James sometime her husband, accordingly as elsewhere in similar cases is accustomed to be done, and saving to the aforesaid wife her reasonable dower falling to the same from the aforesaid lands and tenements. The aforesaid writ was delivered to G. earl of Gloucester to be kept as trustee (‘in equa’ manu’) and by no means to be delivered to the aforementioned James until he has done the said homage, in the form aforesaid. [Calendar Fine Rolls] 18 October 1299 Westminster. Order to the escheator on this side Trent to take into the king's hand the lands which Ela late the wife of James de Aldithelegh, deceased held in dower of the inheritance of Nicholas de Alithelegh, deceased. The like to the justice of Chester or his lieutenant.

James Audley and his wife Ela Longespee were the parents of five sons, not two as recorded above. James II Audley, recorded as the heir of his father in the CIPM held following the latter's death, died without heirs of his body [dsp], Henry II Audley c1252-1276 [dsp], William Audley c1254-1282 [dsp] and Nicholas I Audley c1259-1298 and the youngest Hugh Audley.

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