Mother Eleanor Holland Buried Bisham Abbey | Name Alice 5th | |
Noble family Montacute (by birth)
Neville (by marriage) Father Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury Died 1462, Bisham, United Kingdom Spouse Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (m. 1420) Children Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Alice Neville Parents Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, Eleanor Holland, Countess of Salisbury Grandchildren Anne Neville, Isabel Neville, Duchess of Clarence Similar People Richard Neville - 16th Earl, Joan Beaufort - Countess, Ralph Neville - 1st Earl of W, Cecily Bonville - 7th Baron, Isabel Neville - Duchess | ||
Alice Montacute (1407 – bef. 9 December 1462) was an English noblewoman and the suo jure 5th Countess of Salisbury, 6th Baroness Monthermer, and 7th and 4th Baroness Montacute, 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 Thomas Montacute, 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 Montacute 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 Montacute Mausoleum at Bisham Abbey.
Alice and Richard had ten children who survived infancy: