30 SALISBURY. the household to the Empress Maud, by whom he was v.p.,( J ) er ., after 11 42,f') hut before, or in, 1149,( c ), EARL OF SALISBURY or EARL OF WILTSHIRE.?*) He was witness in 1158 to King Stephen's treaty with Henry, afterwards Henry II. ; his father hefore 114/ : was Sheriff of Wilts 11 50- til), and was Lieut, and Cttj't. Gen, of the forces in Aquitaine for Hen. II. He r«. firstly, Matilda. He m. secondly, Kla, widow of William (DK WaRERKE), Eaiil OF SfUltEY (who d. s.p.ui.). da. of William called TaI.vas, Coi'NT OF At.KNO'N AND Pontiiiku, by Kla, da. of Odo, DliKF. OF BCBOOHDY. He was slain (on returning from a pilgrimage to tJallicia in Spain) by Guy de Lusignan, 27 March 110?/S(o), and was bur. in the Ahhey of St. Hilary, at Poitiers.( r ) His widow ti. 10 Dee. 1171. IT. 116S. 2. William (de Salisbury, otherwise FitzI'atrick), Eaiii. OF SaURBUBY, s. and h. by second wife; A. about 1150; Capt. of the royal fores, 1173-74; Rearer of St. Edward's staff at the first Coronation of Richard I. 3 Sep. 1139, and bearer of the Canopy jit his second Coronation, 17 April 1194. SheritI of Wilts 1193-96 ; Capt. in tin- Kind's Army in Normandy, 1195 ; keeper of the charter for licensing tournament*. He hi . shortly after 1190, Eleanor, (") That his father was alive is shown by a document in which *' Waltenis, Kdtvardi Yiceeomitis Hliilft, et Sibilla uxor inea, et heres uoster, Comes Patricius make gooil to the church of Salisbury all damage done by William, son of the said Walter anil Sibilla, and brother of the said Karl Patrick. This " VVillelmUl Sarisberietisis," tho" not himself an Earl, is mentioned with b' other persons (all of which last were of Comital rank) among the deceased magnates alluded to in the roli,crnlicu.. He was the " Willelmus . . . civitatis Saresbirhe preceptor . . . et municeps." He fought for the Empress at the siege of Winchester and was taken prisoner; took part in the attack on W ilton Nunnery iu 1143, and " lento tandem eruciatu tortus, interiit." See J. H. Round's " Oeoffinj de MamUri/le," pp. '275-270. It seems probable that this William, wh" v. p., was an i/ilrr br. of Earl Patrick and not a uuinii/er one — wdio was (as was his br. Walter) a Canon of Rradcnstoke — as is generally staled. ( h ) In 1 142 tt iitshire " was one of the four counties mentioned for the Earldom promised to Aubrey de Vere. ( c ) J. H. Hound" (in hit * Oetfrtfi it Mui.ilri ill,-," p. 2/1) states that *' the earliest mention <if Patrick as an Earl that I have yet found is in the Devizes charter (114!') of Henry." Conithope seems to doubt the creation altogether, stating that tin/ Patrick " is styled Omits by Matthew of Westminster and Roger de Hoveden, and ill the Liber Niger of the Exchequer is called ('nuns Palrieim, these are, however, the only evidences of the origin of this dignity." There is, however, li.tle doubt that the creation may be placed among the fifteen Earldoms created during the reign of King Stephen, as to which see vol v, p. 86, note " a," tub " Lincoln." (A) Doubtless at this early period the earldom was that of the county, tho' called by the name of the residence of its possessors. It is to be observed, however, that (during the continuance of the Earldom of Salisbury, as granted iu 1337 to the Montacute family) the Earldom of Wiltshire was granted in 1397 to William le Scrope ; so also in 1449 to James liutler ; in 1470 to Juhn Stafford; in 1509 Hi Henry Stafford ; in 1529 to Thomas Boleyn, and finally, iu 1550, to William Patilet. {<=) As to this date it is to be observed that Faster that year was on 31 March. (f) "Anno MCI, XVII. Henrietta rex Lezennimuu castrum munitissimum cepit, captuin mnnivit, relicta ibi region, cum comite Patricio Salesberieosi, avunculo Hotrod comitis Pertieensis. Circa vero octavaa Paschre, dolo I'ictavensinm, occisus est oonua Patricius. et sepultus est apttd S. Hilarium. Succe.-sit ei films natus ex (ilia Willelmi comitis I'oiitivi, matre comitiss&e de Varenua. (Chron. Normannite.) Alienordia J regina Anglorum, et ducissa Aquitaoorum et Normaunorum et comitissa Andegaven- i sium . . . Sciatis dominion meum legem et me et Riearduin filium meuni pi" Bahite no.-tra et antecessorum Oostrorum et pro anima comitis Patricii qui in nostra servitio niottltus fnit, dedisse et concessisse ecelesie beati Hilarii unities cuusuetudines quas habebamiis iu curte Heneciaco et pertinentiis sins . . . Pro hue auteui I libertate et cunsuetttdine a nobis coticessa, oanoaici ecelesie beati Hilarii singulis anm'J ! solemniter celebrabunt nostrum anniversariiim post nostrum a seeulo riiscessuin ; similiter auniversarium comitis Patricii celebrabunt, (Cartul. of the Abbey of St. Hilaire at Poitiers — Beely, Comtes de PoiotoU, preuves, p. 498)." The above, kindly supplied by (x. W. Watson, are the authorities for the statements (doubtless these of Stapleton) on page 30 of " Lacock Abbey."
