Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury

Alice Montagu (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.

Lady Alice Montagu
5th Countess of Salisbury
Born	1407 England
Died	Before 9 December 1462
Buried	Bisham Abbey
Noble family	Montagu (by birth) Neville (by marriage)
Spouse(s)	Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Issue Joan Neville, Countess of Arundel Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick Alice Neville, Baroness FitzHugh John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu George Neville, archbishop of York Eleanor Neville, Countess of Derby Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings Thomas Neville Margaret Neville, Countess of Oxford
Father	Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury
Mother	Eleanor Holland

Marriage and children

Alice was born in 1407, the daughter and only legitimate child, of Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and Eleanor Holland, who was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Lady Alice FitzAlan. The latter was a daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, and Eleanor of Lancaster.

In 1420, she married Richard Neville, who became the 5th Earl of Salisbury by right of his wife on the death of her father Thomas Montagu in 1428. Alice was thereafter styled as Countess of Salisbury.

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 some time 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 (1423-9 September 1462), who married William FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel.
• Lady Cecily Neville (1424-28 July 1450), who married Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick.
• Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), who married the heiress Anne Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick. They were parents to queen consort Anne Neville.
• Lady Alice Neville (1430– after 1503), who married Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh.[1][2] Their daughter, Elizabeth, married William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal. The two were grandparents to Queen consort Catherine Parr, sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
• John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu (1431–1471).
• George Neville (1432–1476), who became Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England.
• Lady Eleanor Neville (1438–c. 1472), who married Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby.
• Lady Katherine Neville (1442–1503/04), who married firstly William Bonville, 6th Baron of Harington, and secondly William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings. By her first husband, she was the mother of Cecily Bonville.
• Thomas Neville (1443–1460), who was knighted in 1449 and died at the Battle of Wakefield.
• Lady Margaret Neville (1444 – 20 November 1506), who married John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury

16. William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury 8. Sir John Montagu 17. Catherine Grandison 4. John Montagu, 3rd Earl of Salisbury 18. Thomas de Monthermer, 2nd Baron de Monthermer[3] 9. Margaret de Monthermer, 3rd Baroness de Monthermer 19. Margaret de Brewes[3] 2. Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury 10. Sir Adam Francis 5. Maud Francis 11. Alice Champneis 1. Alice Montagu, 5th Countess of Salisbury 24. Robert de Holland, 1st Baron Holand 12. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent 25. Maud Zouche 6. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent 26. Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent 13. Joan of Kent 27. Margaret Wake, 3rd Baroness Wake of Liddell 3. Lady Eleanor Holland 28. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel 14. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel 29. Alice de Warenne 7. Lady Alice FitzAlan 30. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster 15. Eleanor of Lancaster 31. Maud Chaworth

References

1. David Baldwin. The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses, History Press, 1 August 2009.
2. Douglas Richardson; Kimball G. Everingham (2005). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Coloncial And Medieval Families. Genealogical Publishing Company. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-8063-1759-5.
3. Douglas Richardson. Magna Carta Ancestry, Genealogical Publishing, 2005. pg xxxii, 402, 576, 815.

External links

• thepeerage.com page

Peerage of England
Preceded by Thomas Montagu	Countess of Salisbury 1428–1462	Succeeded by Richard Neville