Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury

Alice Montacute (1407 – before 9 December 1462) was an English noblewoman and the suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury, 6th Baroness Monthermer, and 7th and 4th Baroness Montagu, having succeeded to the titles in 1428.

Her husband, Richard Neville, became 5th Earl of Salisbury by right of his marriage to Alice.

Marriage and children

Alice was born in 1407, the daughter and only legitimate child, of

The principal seat of the family was at Bisham Manor in Berkshire although their lands lay chiefly around Christchurch in Hampshire and Wiltshire.

She died sometime before 9 December 1462 and was buried in the Montagu Mausoleum at Bisham Abbey.

Alice and Richard had ten children who survived infancy:^[1]

• Lady Joan Neville (c. 1424–1462), who married William FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel.
• Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick
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• Anne Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. They were parents to queen consort Anne Neville
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• Thomas Neville (c. 1429–1460), who was knighted in 1449 and died at the Battle of Wakefield.
• Henry VIII
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• John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (c. 1431–1471).
• Chancellor of England
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• Lady Eleanor Neville (c. 1438–before 1472), who married Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
• Cecily Bonville
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• Lady Margaret Neville (c. 1444–1506), who married John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

Ancestry

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