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The Bluets 48 Effectively this gave control to the Abbey, but they could not gain from it until the current priest died. Before this happened, Bishop Simon himself died, in 1315, at which time the appropriation of the Church was not finished 190 . The process was not actually completed until 1337 191 The Manor of Lackham and the Abbey of Lacock had a very long history as neighbouring estates. An early antiquarian, Sir William Dugdale included the Abbey in his survey of Religious Houses in 1643 Lacock in Wiltshire Founded by Ela Widow of William Longaspata, for Nuns, among whom she her self took the Habit, An 1236 and after became Abbess of this House. This William Longespee was Son of Henry the II and Earl of Rosmar and Salisbury in Right of Ela his Wife, descended from Walter de Ewrons, to whome King William gave the said Earldom of Salisbury 192 . The said Countess Ela founded two Monasteries in one day, viz. 16 Cal Mai, Anno. Dom. 1232. Namely Henton for Carthusians, and this Lacock for Canonesses. The said Ela became Abbess here, An 1240, resigned An 1257, died 1261 aged 74. [Valued at 168l 9s 2d per Annum] 193 Dugdale 194 says that she ordered the body to be buried in the abbey church at Lacock and that in his time the inscription still remains Bowles maintains that the memorial stone is to be found in the Cloisters, having been removed from the altar of the destroyed 190 Rogers KH (ed) (1978) Lacock Abbey Charters WRS 15 p21, no 40, dated 3 Jun 1315 191 Clark-Maxwell (1904) On the Appropriation of Lacock Abbey WAM 33 Appendix XIV p374 192 Marsh AEW (1903) History of Calne p240 fn1 Ela had a brother, Stephen, who became Justice of Ireland and Earl of Ulster in right of his wife. He was killed by the Irish in 1260 His remains were brought over to England for internment, his body being buried at Lacock and his heart at Bradenstoke 193 Dugdale, Sir W. (1643) Monasticon Vol II of the Canons Regular of St Augustin p170. This is not the 19th century, new edition 194 Dugdale, Sir W (1643) Monsaticon 1830 edition Vol VI p500
The Bluets 49 choir and that it read Infra sunt defossa Ela venerabilis ossa, Quae dedit has sedes, sacrae monialibus aedes, Abbatissa quidem, quo sancta vixit ibidem Et comitissa Sarum, virtutum plena bonarum 195 It is noted that the surname of William Longespee translates into modern English as Longsword; the espee is an early version of epee. For a long time it was believed that his mother was the lady whose transcendent beauty has become proverbial under the name of Fair Rosamund 196 . This was Rosamund Clifford, the daughter of Walter de Clifford and granddaughter of Walter FitzPonce. She was believed to be one of Henry II‘s mistresses. This is, however, romantic nonsense. William Longespee was actually the son of King Henry II by another of his mistresses, Ida, afterwards the wife of Roger Bigod (died 1221) 4th Earl of Norfolk, a noted Magna Carta baron 197 . Evidence that he was the son of Countess Ida comes from two charters of Bradenstoke Priory 198 in which William specifically names his mother as Countess Ida. Moreover, among the prisoners captured at the battle of Bouvines in Flanders in 1214 was a Ralph Bigod whom contemporary records specifically call "brother" [i.e., half-brother] of William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury 199 . 195 Bowles, WL (1835) Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey p 5 which he translates, rather freely, as Beneath, the venerable Ela‘s bones / Are buried; she, these scenes of sacred peace - / Countess of Salisbury gave the Nuns, / Herself the Abbess here, and full of deeds / Of Holy Charity 196 Michael, W (1901) Historic spots in Wiltshire pp63 – 64 197 For the Bigod family, see Complete Peerage. (1936) vol 9 pp586-589 (sub Norfolk) and Thompson, A.H (1928) (ed.) Liber Vitae Ecclesiae Dunelmenis (Surtees Soc. vol. 136) 198 London, VCM (1979) The Cartulary of Bradenstoke Priory WRS pp99-100 numbers 301 & 302 199 .W. Baldwin (1992) (ed.) Les Registres de Philippe Augustus in Miscellanea no. 13. These details have been taken from postings on Medgensoc newsgroup.
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