Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury
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| Alice Montacute | |
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| suo jure Countess of Salisbury | |
| Spouse | Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury |
| Issue | |
| Joan Neville Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick Alice Neville John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu George Neville, archbishop of York Eleanor Neville Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings Thomas Neville Margaret Neville |
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| Noble family | Montacute |
| Father | Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury |
| Mother | Eleanor Holland |
| Born | 1407 England |
| Died | Before 9 December 1462 {{{place of death}}} |
| Burial | Bisham Abbey |
Alice Montacute (1407- before 9 December 1462), was an English noblewoman and the suo jure Countess of Salisbury having succeeded to the title in 1428. Her husband, Richard Neville became 5th Earl of Salisbury by right of his marriage to Alice.
[edit] Marriage and children
Alice was born in 1407, the daughter and only legitimate child, of Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury and Eleanor Holland, who was the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and 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 his father-in-law, Thomas Montacute in 1428. Alice was thereafter styled as Countess of Salisbury.
The main home 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 Montacute Mausoleum at Bisham Abbey.
She and Richard had ten children:
- Joan Neville, 1423 - 9 September 1462, who married William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel
- Cecily Neville, 1424 - 28 July 1450, who married Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick
- Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick 1428 - 1471
- Alice Neville, 1430- 1503, who married Henry FitzHugh, 6th Baron FitzHugh
- John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu 1431 - 1471
- George Neville 1432 - 1476, who became Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England
- Eleanor Neville, 1438 - 1504, who married Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby
- Katherine Neville, 1442 - 25 March 1504, 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
- Margaret Neville, 1444 - 20 November 1506, who married John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford
