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on 4 July 1256, he began negotiations for Margaret's marriage to

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on 23 December 1256. After Margaret's father died, the king appointed her father-in-law Edmund, as her guardian. When Edmund died suddenly in 1258, the king appointed

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and Edmund's widow Alésia of Saluzzo, as guardians. She was married to Henry in 1257. From her marriage to Henry, Margaret had at least three children: *Edmund de Lacy (died 1308) *John de Lacy * Alice de Lacy (1281–1348) Both her sons died in accidents and left no heirs, leaving her daughter Alice, who was married to

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, as her heir.

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*Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical History of the Dormant: Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire. United Kingdom, Harrison, 1866. *Cokayne, George Edward. Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, Or Dormant. United Kingdom: G. Bell & sons. Volume VII, 1896. *Wilkinson, Louise J. Women in Thirteenth-Century Lincolnshire . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2007. ISBN 978-0-86193-285-6. {{DEFAULTSORT:Salisbury, Margaret LongspeeL, Countess Of Year of birth unknown 1309 deaths 13th-century English nobility 14th-century English nobility 13th-century English women 14th-century English women 14th-century English landowners 4 Hereditary women peers English countesses 13th-century English landowners 13th-century women landowners 14th-century women landowners