Generation 5 · plantagenet · 38 of 60 · Marriage alliance — does not wear the writ
Ela Longespee
Wife of James de Audley, Justiciar of Ireland
Daughter · wife · mother of this house
Alliance. The writ is still twenty years away.
Silver circlet
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Chronicle of this board
Longespee blood in the Heighley solar
Ela Longespee married James de Audley, Justiciar of Ireland and Justice of Chester. Longespee is royal bastardy made respectable — William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, was a son of Henry II.
She does not hold the later writ. She dresses the generation that is about to receive one.
Alliance. The writ is still twenty years away.
Wardrobe
Plantagenet court length, deep ruby gown, gold fret embroidery at the hem, linen wimple, silver circlet, ermine at the cuff when sitting in a justiciar's household.
Weapons · animals · lands
None. Rank is a father's name and a husband's office.
Horses of the Irish crossing — she is of the household that goes to sea.
- Heighley household
- Irish justiciarship as a house, not a fief