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Early Life
William Longespée was an illegitimate son of Henry II. As per TCP1, the surname
had belonged to his Royal father's remote ancestor, William, Duke of Normandy, slain in 943, as also to the Conqueror's grandson, William, Count of Flanders, son of Robert, Duke of Normandy.
Whilst Weir2 is unclear about William's mother ("he may have been the son of Ikenai ['a common prostitute'] but this is doubtful, Wikipedia explicitly makes him the son of Ida de Tosny, referring to a charter that he made, referring to his mother 'Ida'. Ida de Tosny is already in my tree, as the legitimate wife of ...obtained in marriage, 1198, by means of the reigning King, his brother (to whom the lady was in ward) ... Ela, heiress of the Earls of Salisbury, being, accordingly, acknowledged as Earl of Salisbury, and as such, present at the coronation of John, 27 May 1199.
Footnotes
[1] Complete Peerage, First Edition, Volume 5; Salisbury (page 31)
[2] Britain's Royal Families by Alison Weir; The Angevin or Plantagenet Kings of England
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