_William I Longsword Normandy __________________________+
| (.... - 0942)
_Richard I The Fearless Count Of Normandy _|_Sprota Of Senlis ______________________________________
| (0933 - 0996)
_Godfrey De Brionne _|
| (0953 - 1015) m 0985|
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| |_Gunner Of Crêpon _________________________|________________________________________________________
| (.... - 1031)
_Gilbert (Crispin) De Brionne _|
| (.... - 1040) m 1020 |
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| | _Sigfried "The Dane" Comte de Guines ______|________________________________________________________
| | | (1000 - 1040)
| |_Hawise de Guines ___|
| (0958 - ....) m 0985|
| | _ARNOLD I (Arnolph) Magnus The Great Count Of Flanders _+
| | | (0890 - ....)
| |_Elisende (Elftrude) de Flanders __________|_Alce Adele (Alix) de Vermandois _______________________
| (0937 - 0970) (0912 - 0960)
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|--Baldwin De Brionne
| (1024 - ....)
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|_Gunnora D'Anjou ______________|
m 1020 |
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_Hugh The Younger Le Despenser, Lord Le Despenser _+
| (.... - 1326) m 1306
_Edward Le Despenser ___________________________|_Eleanor De Clare _________________________________
| (.... - 1342) m 1335 (1292 - 1337)
_Edward Le Despenser Lord Le Despenser ________|
| (1335 - 1375) m 1354 |
| | _William de Ferrers Lord Ferrers Of Groby__________+
| | | (1271 - 1324)
| |_Anne de Ferrer ________________________________|_Ellen De Segrave _________________________________
| (1305 - 1367) m 1335
_Thomas Le Despenser ___|
| (1373 - ....) |
| | _Bartholomew De Burghersh _________________________+
| | | (1304 - 1355) m 1320
| | _Bartholomew K.g. 4th Baron De Burghersh _______|_Elizabeth De Verdun ______________________________
| | | (1320 - 1369) (1291 - 1360)
| |_Elizabeth De Burghersh _______________________|
| (1342 - 1409) m 1354 |
| | _Richard De Weyland _______________________________
| | | (1290 - 1319)
| |_Cicely De Weyland _____________________________|_Joan De Mortimer _________________________________
| (1314 - 1354) (1295 - ....)
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|--Isabel Le Despenser
| (1400 - 1439)
| _Edward II Of England _____________________________+
| | (1284 - 1327) m 1308
| _Edward III Of England Plantagenet _____________|_Isabella De France _______________________________
| | (1312 - 1377) m 1328 (1292 - 1358)
| _Edmund Of Langley, Duke Of York, Plantagenet _|
| | (1341 - 1402) |
| | | _William III The Good Of Hainault _________________
| | | | (1280 - 1337) m 1305
| | |_Phillipa Hainant ______________________________|_Jeanne De Valois _________________________________
| | (1311 - 1369) m 1328 (1294 - 1342)
|_Constance Plantagenet _|
(1374 - 1416) |
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| _Pedro I "The Cruel" King of Castile And Laeon _|___________________________________________________
| | (1334 - ....)
|_Isabella Of Castile __________________________|
(1355 - 1392) |
| ___________________________________________________
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|_Maria Juana De Padilla ________________________|___________________________________________________
(1334 - 1361)
[7785]
Natural [illegitimate, bastard] son of King Henry II
Created Earl of Salisbury in 1196
In 1212, Prince William, Earl of Salisbury, claimed lands from Sir HenryDe Bohun, Earl of Hereford and in 1215 control of the barony of Trowbridge was granted to William. A compromise was reached later in the same year when the honour was divided between the Earl of Hereford and the Earl ofSalisbury.
Burke wrote:
William Longespee became Earl of Salisbury in right of his wife. "In the beginning of King John's reign this nobleman was sheriff of Wiltshire, he was afterwards warden of the marches of Wales, then sheriff of the counties of Cambridge and Huntingdon. About this period (14th John), thebaronial contest commencing, William Longespee at once espoused the royal cause, and maintained it so stoutly, that he was included, by the barons, amongst the evil councillors of the crown. The next year he was again constituted sheriff of Wilts, and he held the office from that time during the remainder of his life. He had also a grant of the honour of Eye, in Suffolk, and was the same year a witness to the agreement made between King John and the barons, as guarantee for the former. He was likewise a witness to the charter whereby John resigned his kingdom to the pope. After this we find him a principal leader in the royal army, until the very close of John's reign, when he swerved in his loyalty, and joined for a short period the ranks of Lewis of France. Upon the accession,however, of HenryIII., he did homage to that monarch, particularly for the county of Somerset, which the king then gave him; and joining with William Marshall (governor of the king and kingdom), raised the siege of Lincoln: when he was constituted sheriff of Lincolnshire and governor of Lincoln Castle, being invested at the same time with the sheriffalty of the co. of Somerset, and governorship of the castle of Shirburne. His lordship soon afterwards accompanied the Earl of Chester to the Holy Land,and was at the Battle of Damieta, in which the crescent triumphed. He served subsequently in the Gascon wars, whence returning to England, Dugdale relates 'there arose so great a tempest at sea, that, despairing of life, he threw his money and rich apparel overboard. But when all hopes were passed, they discovered a mighty taper of wax, burning bright at the prow of the ship, and a beautiful woman standing by it, who preserved it from wind and rain, so that it gave a clear and bright lustre. Upon sight of which heavenly vision both himself and the mariners concluded of their future security: but everyone there being ignorant what this vision might portend except the earl; he, however, attributed it to the benignity of the blessed virgin, by reason that upon the day when he was honoured with the girdle of knighthood he brought a taper to her altar,to be lighted every day at mass, when the canonical hours used to be sung, and to the intent, that for this terrestrial light, he might enjoy that which is eternal.' A rumour, however, reached England of the earls having been lost, and Hubert de \Burgh\, with the concurrence of the king, provided a suitor to his supposed widow, but the lady, in the interim, having received letters from her husband, rejected the suit with indignation. The earl soon after came to the king at Marlborough, and being received with great joy, he preferred a strong complaint against Hubert de \Burgh\, adding, that unless the king would do him right therein, he should vindicate himself otherwise, to the disturbance of the public peace. Hubert, however,appeased his wrath with rich presents, and invited him to his table, where it is asserted that he was poisoned, for he retired to his castle at Salisbury in extreme illness, and died almost immediately after, anno 1226."
Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages,
Burke, 1883, p. 168