Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury

[1] She escaped to Ireland and came back to England with her son the Earl of Warwick in the spring of 1460.

Alice was born in 1407, the daughter and only legitimate child,[2] 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.

In 1420, Alice 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.

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

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