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Nicholas Longespee was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury. Longespee was the son of Ela, 3rd Countess of Salisbury, and William Longespee. He was a canon of Salisbury Cathedral before 1272 and held the office of treasurer of the diocese of Salisbury before 1275. He also held the position of rector of Lacock.
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Birth and Parentage
Nicholas Longespée was the son of William de Longespée and Ela, Countess of Salisbury. His birth date is uncertain, but he was still a ward of his mother in 1236, so it must have been after 1215.
Ecclesiastical Career
Although he did not have a university degree, he had a successful ecclesiastical career. In 1236 he was presented to the church of Great Gaddesden, Hertfordshire with the agreement of his brother Stephen, who was patron of the living.(Note that this does not necessarily mean he was of age then: it was not unknown for men under 21 to be presented to church livings.) By September 1248 he was rector of Iwerne Minster, Dorset. He acquired other parish livings. He was rector of South Tawton, Devon...
Children
Nicholas had at least two children, probably by a mistress: 1. Nicholas 2. Alice, who married Geoffrey de Japrpenville in 1260/1261. After his death she probably married Willia de Barneville of Harrow, Middlesex.
Nicholas may have had another son, William, who called himself son of Nicholas Longespé in charters and who held an interest in the church of Brocklesby, Lincolnshire.
Douglas Richardson. Plantagenet Ancestry, 2nd edition 2011, Vol. II, pp. 427-428, LONGESPÉE 3.ivOxford Dictionary of National Biography - entry for 'Longespée, Nicholas', online 2009, revised 2010, available online via some librariesWilliam Lisle Bowles and John Gough Nichols. Annals and Antiquities of Lacock Abbey, pub. John Bowyer Nichols and Son, London, 1835, pp. 157-160, Internet Archive'Treasurers', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300, Vol. 4, Salisbury, ed. Diana E Greenway (London, 1991), pp. 20-23. British History Online, accessed 6 July 2019- Male
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Apr 30, 2022 · Nicholas Longespee was a medieval Bishop of Salisbury. He was the son of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury and William's wife, Ela.[1] He was a canon of Salisbury Cathedral before 1272 and held the office of treasurer of the diocese of Salisbury before 1275.
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- Salisbury (Wiltshire) England
- circa 1218
- May 18, 1297 (74-83)England
Bishop of Salisbury. The Bishop of Salisbury is the ordinary of the Church of England 's Diocese of Salisbury in the Province of Canterbury. The diocese covers much of the counties of Wiltshire and Dorset. The see is in the City of Salisbury where the bishop's seat is in the Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Nicholas Longespee was not the only one, although he was the more successful, of his immediate family to hold cler-ical office at Salisbury: an older brother had been a canon of the cathedral. The family exercised power in other, perhaps less obvious, ways. The Longespees lived in a more en-
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Mar 27, 2021 · Already in his sixties, Nicholas died on 18 May 1297. In 1216, the oldest son, William II Longespée, fourth Earl of Salisbury, was granted marriage by King John to Idonea, granddaughter and sole heiress of the formidable Nicholaa de la Haye.
