View source for Mother of William Longespee

This page writen and copyright 2008, by Will Johnson, [mailto:wjhonson@aol.com wjhonson@aol.com], Professional Genealogist

Acknowledgements to Douglas Richardson for citing many of the below sources.

Questions to be answered:
#What evidence gives us the name of William's mother?
#What evidence gives us the name(s) of any of William's siblings?
#What evidence gives us the name of William's father?

In ''Un grand feudataire'' on [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=zeoJAAAAIAAJ&dq=Un+grand+feudataire,+Renaud+de+Dammartin+et+la+coalition+de+Bouvines&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=x7JML8uUWQ&sig=BPbSogOaZ-vxXPSNKZ3qgwj-Gmk#PPA199,M1 page 199 here] we find this : "Enfin, à la droite des Impériaux, Renaud de Dammarlin commandait à Guillaume de Salisbury et à son frère Bigot de Clifford, avec leurs 6,000 Anglais..."  This translates to "...William of Salisbury and to his brother Bigod of Clifford"

On [http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=zeoJAAAAIAAJ&dq=Un+grand+feudataire,+Renaud+de+Dammartin+et+la+coalition+de+Bouvines&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=x7JML8uUWQ&sig=BPbSogOaZ-vxXPSNKZ3qgwj-Gmk#PPA209,M1 page 209] of that same work we find this : "...Raoul le Bigot, frere de Guillaume Longue-Epee..." that is, "Ralph Bigod, brother of William Longespee"

Vera London, ''Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory'' (Wiltshire Rec. Soc. 35) (1979): 143, 188, includes two charters in which Earl William Longespée specifically names his mother, Countess Ida

<blockquote>Morris, The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the 13th Century (2005): 2, who 
cites a royal inquest dated 1275, in which jurors affirmed that Earl 
Roger le Bigod had received the manors of Acle, Halvergate, and South 
Walsham, Norfolk from King Henry II, in marriage with his wife, Ida de 
Tony [see Rotuli Hundredorum 1 (1812): 504, 537].  Morris shows that 
Earl Roger le Bigod received these manors by writ of the king, he 
having held them for three quarters of a year at Michaelmas 1182 [see 
PR 28 Henry II, 1181-1182 (Pipe Roll Soc.) (1910):64].  This appears 
to pinpoint to marriage of Ida de Tony and Earl Roger le Bigod as 
having occurred about Christmas 1181. - Douglas Richardson in a thread on soc.genealogy.medieval [http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/8285e02f85046333/0c1e29683c906e3d?lnk=raot#0c1e29683c906e3d here]</blockquote>
==Sources==
*[http://groups.google.com/group/soc.genealogy.medieval/browse_thread/thread/8285e02f85046333/0c1e29683c906e3d?lnk=raot#0c1e29683c906e3d "Ida mother of William Longespee"], discussion started [[Jan 30]], 2008 at soc.genealogy.medieval, archived at Google Groups
*[[Douglas_Richardson%2C_awaiting_answers#Question_4|Douglas Richardson, Question 4]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=zeoJAAAAIAAJ ''Un grand feudataire, Renaud de Dammartin et la coalition de Bouvines''], by Henri Malo. Paris: Honore Champion Libraire 1898.
*Phair, Raymond W., "William Longespee, Ralph Bigod, and Countess Ida," ''The American Genealogist'' 77:4 (Oct 2002) (this citation supplied by Hal Bradley)