Background
Ela was born in 1244 at Salisbury, Wiltshire and was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Stephen Longespee, Justiciar of Ireland, Seneschal of Gascony.
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Career
She was the wife of Sir Roger Louisiana Zouche, Lord of Ashby. Her paternal grandmother was Ela, Countess of Salisbury, who had founded Lacock Abbey, and for whom she was named. Her maternal grandmother was the daughter of Henry FitzRoy (d 1158).
Ela had a younger sister, Emmeline, who became the second wife of Maurice Fitzgerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly in 1273.
