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Thomas of Warwick

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  • Name Thomas of Warwick 
    Gender Male 
    Died From 27 Jun 1242 to 26 Jun 1493 
    Buried Saint Mary's, Warwick, Warwickshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7044  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Ela Longespée,   d. 9/09 Feb 1297/8 
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F3138  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “ELA OF SALISBURY, suo jure Countess of Salisbury, daughter and heiress, born in or about 1191. She married before Sept. 1197 WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Knt., Earl of Salisbury, Lieutenant of Gascony, 1202, Seneschal of Avranches, 1203, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, 1204-6, Sheriff of Wiltshire, 1204-7, 1213-26, Lord of the Honour and Castle of Eye, 1205, Sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire, 1212-16, Sheriff of Devon, 1217-18, Sheriff of Somersetshire, 1217, Sheriff of Lincolnshire, 1217-21, Sheriff of Shropshire and Staffordshire, 1223-4, Constable of Portchester, Southampton, and Winchester Castles, 1224, Keeper of the March of Wales, illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England, by his mistress, Ida, daughter of Ralph de Tony, of Flamstead, Hertfordshire [see ENGLAND 4 for his ancestry]. He was born say 1175-80. They had four sons, William, Knt. [Earl of Salisbury], Stephen, Knt., Richard [Canon of Salisbury], and Nicholas [Bishop of Salisbury], and six daughters, Ida, Mary, Isabel, Ela, Ida (2nd of name), and Pernel...
      Children of William Longespée, Knt., by Ela of Salisbury...
      viii. ELA LONGSPEE, married THOMAS OF WARWICK, Knt., 6th Earl of Warwick, son and heir of Henry, Earl of Warwick, by his 1st wife, Margery, daughter of Herity d'Oilly. He was presumably of age in 1229. They had no issue. He carried the third sword at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236. He died 26 (or 27) June 1242, and was buried in St. Mary's, Warwick. In 1247 his widow, Ela, Countess of Warwick, and Simon Fitz Simon sued John de Plescy, Earl of Warwick, and his wife, Margery, in a plea of warranty. Ela married (2nd) after Nov. 1254 and before 23 March 1254/5 (as his 2nd wife) PHILIP BASSET, Knt., of Soham, Cambridgeshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Kirdington, Oxfordshire, Woking, Surrey, Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, etc., Constable of Colchester, Corfe, Devizes, Hadleigh, Oxford, and Sherbome Castles, 1259, Justiciar of England, Keeper of the Tower of London, younger son of Alan Basset, of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, Maplederwell, Hampshire, Woking, Surrey, etc., by Aline, daughter and co-heiress Philip de Gay, of Wootton Bassett and Broadtown, Wiltshire and Northbrook, Oxfordshire. They had no issue. In the period, 1230-41, his brother, Gilbert Basset, conveyed to him land in Middleton, late of Thomas Basset their older brother. In 1233 he helped free Hubert de Burgh, Earl of Kent, from captivity in Devizes Castle in Wiltshire; in return in 1234 Hubert de Burgh gave him 176 acres of his demesne land in Soham, Cambridgeshite, with lordship over numerous tenants. In 1238-9 he was granted lands in Soham and Fordham, Cambridgeshire by Peter de Bendenges and his wife Burga. In 1242 he was appointed one of the Constables of the Host, then about to set out for Poitou. In consideration of his services there, he was granted the manor of Kersey, Suffolk -- 1243. In 1245 he was appointed ambassador to the Council of Lyons. About 1245 he obtained a license to build a chapel in Soham, Cambridgeshire and to hear service therein. In 1252 William de Wydindon demised to him land and wood of `Okregge' in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire for a term of seven years; Philip promised to keep William in his service, providing him food and clothing as one of his own esquires and supplying him with another horse if his own died; the grant was made perpetual in 1254. He fought in Wales in 1258. Philip was heir in 1259 to his older brother, Fulk Basset, Bishop of London. In 1260 Simon, Abbot of Bury St. Edmunds, demised the manor of Stapleford Abbots, Essex to him. The same year, at the instance of his cousin, Ela, Countess of Warwick, the king granted the abbess and nuns of Lacock Abbey quittance from cheminage in all the king's forests in Wiltshire and Gloucestershire. In 1261 he had a grant of 1000 marks per annum to maintain him in the office of Justiciar. About 1261 Laurence de Sanford granted him the manor of Lecquid, Glamorgan, Wales. In 1261-2 Thomas de Awelton and Agnes his wife conveyed lands in Doddington and Northwode, Cambridgeshire to Philip and his wife, Ela. In 1262 John de Burgh and Hawise his wife leased lands in Soham, Fordharn, Landwade, Wykes, Hanney, etc., Cambridgeshire to Sir Philip Basset for a term of 16 years for the sum of 400/. in hand. In 1262 Philip leased land in Rotherwick, Hampshire from Richard de la Rugge. The same year Richard, King of the Romans, quitclaimed to him all suit of court at Wallingford, Berkshire for life. He fought on the king's side at the Battle of Lewes in 1264, where the king was taken prisoner by the barons. In 1266 Thomas de Gay, rector of the church of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, granted Philip his free chapel at Fasterne, Wiltshire, with renunciation of all right to sell the offerings made therein; the said Philip to pay 20s. yearly to the parish church of Wootton. In 1267 the king granted him for life a deer leap at his new park below his town of Wootton Basset, Wiltshire, and another at his old park below his manor of "la Fasteme." In 1267-8 his wife, Ela, gave property in Stinkinglane, in the parish of St. Nicholas de Macellis, London to the City of London for the use of the Franciscans. At an unknown date, Richard son of Richard de la Wyz released to him all his right in a meadow with pasture for six cattle in Compton, Wiltshire. Sometime before 1271 John de Burgh granted that he pay him 20s. yearly to the custody of Dover Castle, due from the manor of Beeston, which Philip holds from him. SIR PHILIP BASSET died testate 29 October 1271, and was buried at Stanley, Wiltshire. In 1278 his widow, Ela, complained that when she sent John the reeve of Claverdon to Brandon Castle, Warwickshire with a letter for 10 marks which Thebaud de Verdun owed her as relief for the manor, Eleanor, widow of John de Verdun (step-mother of Thebaud de Verdun) and her men took away the letter and imprisoned him for one night. In 1280 Ela was summoned to show by what warrant she took the fines of the breaches of the assize of bread and ale in Maplederwell, Hampshire, and to show cause why she should not permit her villeins of Maplederwell to make suit at the king's hundred court of Basingstoke. The same year she sued Hugh de Courtenay and his wife Eleanor (Ela's step-granddaughter) for one messuage and lands in Wootton Courtney, Somerset, which she claimed to be her right by the gift of Hugh de Neville; the jury found in favor of Hugh and Eleanor. In 1289 Ela, Countess of Warwick, was summoned to answer Hugh le Despenser on a plea as to why she had committed waste in the woods which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance in Compton Bassett and Wolfhale, Wiltshire to Hugh's disinheritance. In 1290 she granted a messuage and 1/2 virgate of land in Nateley Eastrop, a croft of eight acres in Up Nately, and a messuage and garden in Maplederwell, all in Hampshire, to John, Bishop of Winchester, for use of a chantry and maintenance of a chaplain in the chapel of Maplederwell. In 1293 Hugh le Despenser confirmed the grant of Lady Ela Longespée, late the wife of Philip Basset, to Adam de Stock and Roger de Stock his brother of lands in Wolfhale, Wiltshire which she held in dower of Hugh's inheritance. Ela, Countess of Warwick, died 9 Feb. 1297/8, and was buried in Oseney Abbey, Oxfordshire. Sandford Gen. Hist. of the Kings of England (1677): 116. Clutterbuck Hist. & Antiqs. of Hertford 1 (1815): 371 (Longespée-Zouch pad.). Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum 6(3) (1830): 1517. Maidment Analecta Scotica: Colls. Ill. of the Civil, Eccl. & Lit. Hist. of Scotland (1834): 229-230 (charter of Margaret, Countess of Kent, sister of the King of Scotland, to Philip Basset). Bowles & Nichols Annals & Antiqs. of Lacock Abbey (1835): 160-162 (biog. of Ela Longespée: "She was married twice; first to Thomas Newburgh, Earl of Warwick, who died June 26, 1242; secondly to Philip Basset, of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire, son of William Basset, Chief Justice of England. She became the second time a widow in 1271, and survived for many years after, a very wealthy lady, having no children by either husband. In 1285 she was returned as holding the manor of Hoke-Norton in Oxfordshire, in capite, by the sergeantry of carvng before our lord the King on Christmas Day, when she had for her fee the King's knife with which she cut. We find several records of her piety, particularly in Oxford and its vicinity; for she seems to have lived during her widowhood at Headington, only two miles from that city. In the year 1287 we find the Countess of Warwick visiting Lacock, on which occasion she quit-claimed to the abbey her title in the manor of Hatherop. She died on Sunday Feb. 6, 1297, and was buried at Ousney Abbey, near Oxford, where Leland saw her tomb, 'a very fair flat marble, in the habit of a vowess, graven in a copper plate.' Two Seals of this lady are extant. The first closely resembles that of her Mother, having on one side her own figure holding a hawk, and on the other side the arms of Longespé in a shield, with a lion above and below; it is inscribed on both side S. ELE LVNGESPEYE COMITISSE WARWIC. In her second Seal, the coat of Basset (wavy Or and Gules) is substituted for that of Longespe; the latter is placed in her hand, on the obverse, instead of the hawk, and is balanced by the coat of Newburgh, (checky Or and Azure, a chevron Ermine) placed over her right shoulder. The inscription on both sides is SIGILLVM ELE BASSET COMITISSE WAREWYKIE. These seals are engraved in the accompanying Plate."), App. I, i-v (Book of Lacock). Banks Dormant & Extinct Baronage of England 4 (1837): 311-312. Foss Judges of England 2 (1848): 216-218 (biog. of Alan Basset), 219-221 (biog. of Philip Basset). Brewer Monumenta Franciscana 1 (Rolls Ser. 4) (1858): 499-500. Hutchins Hist. & Antiqs. of Dorset 3 (1868): 287 (Salisbury-Longespée ped.). Annual Rpt. of the Deputy Keeper 42 (1881): 659; 44 (1883): 185, 256, 261; 45 (1885): 314, 331; 46 (1886): 131, 236, 285, 295; 48 (1887): 85. Notes & Queries 6th Ser. 12 (1885): 478. Doyle Official Baronage of England 3 (1886): 574 (sub Warwick). Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 1(1890): 21-33; 3 (1900): 85-96, 107-118. Rye Pedes Finium or Fines Rel. Cambridge (1891): 21, 25, 29, 32, 40. Birch Cat. Seals in the British Museum 2 (1892): 328 (seal of Thomas, 6th Earl of Warwick - To the right. In armour: hauberk of mail, surcoat, flat-topped helmet, sword, shield with strengthening rib. Horse galloping. Legend: * SIGIL … OME COMIT ... WARWIC.), 376 (seal of Ela Basset, Countess of Warwick dated post A.D. 1242-Obverse. Pointed oval. In flat cap, tightly-fitted dress, mantle. In the left hand a shield of arms. Standing on a carved corbel or platform, beneath an elaborately carved canopy like a cathedral church, with central tower and transept. Arms: six lioncels, three, two, and one, for her father WILLIAM LONGESPÉE, Earl of Salisbury. On the left, in the field, a similar shield of arms: chequy, a chevron ermine, WARWICK. Legend: S' ELE BASSET • COMITISSE • WAREWYKIE. Reverse. Pointed oval counterseal, same size. Within a circular panel, with quatrefoil opening and trefoils in the spandrils, a shield of arms: three bars wavy, BASSET. In the field two lioncels rampant, derived from her paternal arms (see obv.), one above, one below the panel. Legend: SIGILLVM : ELE : BASSET : COMITISSE : WAREVYKIE. Beaded borders.). Green Feet of Fines for Somerset 1 (Somerset Rec. Soc. 6) (1892): 107, 183, 377. Lewis Pedes Finium; or, Fines Rel. Surrey (Surrey Arch. Soc. Extra Vol. 1) (1894): 214-215. Desc. Cat. Ancient Deeds 3 (1900): 130. Tait Medieval Manchester & the Beginnings of Lancashire (1904): 136 (Basset ped.). Wordsworth Ancient Kalendar of the Univ. of Oxford 45 (1904): 60, 63, 82, 83. C.Ch.R. 2 (1906): 29 (Ela, Countess of Warwick, styled "king's cousin" by King Henry III in 1260). CP.R 1247-1258 (1908): 42, 133 (instances of Ela [Longespée], Countess of Warwick, styled "king's kinswoman"). VCH Hampshire 3 (1908): 378; 4 (1911): 99-101, 149-152, 176-179, 567-577. C.P.R. 1258-1266 (1910): 224-225. VCH Surrey 3 (1911): 381-390. Kingsford Grey Friars of London (1915): 150-152. Salter Cartulary of Oseney Abbey 1 (Oxford Hist. Soc. 89) (1919): xx (Kal. Mardi [1 March]: obit of Countess Ela), 191-192. VCH Berkshire 3 (1923): 492-498; 4 (1924): 168-174. VCH Buckingham 3 (1925): 135-140; 4 (1927): 260-263. Somersetshire Pleas 4(1) (Somerset Rec. Soc. 44) (1929): 80-82. Salter Feet of Fines for Oxfordshire (Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 12) (1930): 197, 244-245. Pubs. Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 21(1939): 132. Budgen & Salzman “Wiltshire, Devonshire & Dorsetshire Portion of the Lewes Chartulary" in Chartulary of Lewes Priory: The Portions Rel. to other Counties than Sussex (Sussex Rec. Soc. Addl. Vol.) (1943): 26 (charter of Philip Basset). VCH Warwick 4 (1947): 230-245; 6 (1951): 273-280. Hethe Reg. Hamonis Hethe Diocesis Roffinsis 2 (Canterbury & York Soc. 49) (1948): 760-761. Hatton Book of Seals (1950): 306-307 (charter of Richard, King of the Romans dated 1262). Paget Baronage of England (1957) 28: 1-5 (sub Basset) ("Philip [Basset] ... established a reputation for integrity, unequaled in the era in which he lived."). C.P. 12(2) (1959): 365 (sub Warwick). Ancient Deeds - Ser. B 3 (List & Index Soc. 113) (1975): B.9805. Ancient Deeds - Ser. Al (List & Index Soc. 151) (1978): 177. Ancient Deeds-Ser. A 2 (List & Index Soc. 152) (1978): 17. Ellis Cat. Seals in the P.R.O. 1 (1978): 4 (seal of Philip Basset dated 1266-A shield of arms: three bars wavy [BASSET]. A crescent above the shield and a star on either side). Ancient Deeds-Set. AS & WS (List & Index Soc. 158) (1979): 5 (Deed A.S.24), 7 (Deed A.D.36), 45 (Deed A.S.254). Himsworth Winchester College Muniments 2 (1984): 110-111. Humphries Kirtlington: An Oxfordshire Village (1986): 13. Waugh Lordship of England (1988): 212 (Basset ped.). Leese Blood Royal (1996): 54-56. VCH Oxford 13 (1996): 118-127. VCH Cambridge 10 (2002): 500. VCH Northampton 5 (2002): 413-428. Röhrkasten Mendicant Houses of Medeval London (2004): 32-34, 46-47, 339. Brand Earliest English Law Rpts. 4 (Selden Soc. 123) (2007): 407-409. Dryburgh Cal. of Fine Rolls of the Reign of Henry III 2 (2008): 441 (Henry d'Oilly styled "kinsman" by Thomas of Warwick in 1232-3)..."