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From: "Rosie Bevan" <>
Subject: Re: Countess Ida, mother of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 09:53:33 +1300
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Actually the name of William Longespee does not appear in the Durham Liber
Vitae.

The inclusion of the Bigod family may seem a little strange but in fact it
was the custom for monasteries to have reciprocal arrangements with other
houses for the inclusion of prayers on their mortuary rolls. The monks of
Durham made agreements of this kind with their brethren at Westminster,
Gloucester, Winchester, Coventry, Fescamp, Caen, Canterbury, Glastonbury and
other places. It may be for this reason
that the Bigod family appears not only in the Durham liber but the Thorney
one too.

Rosie

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Richardson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:56 AM
Subject: Re: Countess Ida, mother of William Longespee, Earl of Salisbury

> If Countess Ida were a Tony, it would explain not only why her son,
> William Longespee, was chosen to escort William the Lion, but also why
> she and her husband, Roger Bigod, and her son, William Longespee,
> appear in the early medieval source, Liber Vitae Ecclesiae
> Dunelmensis



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