[3] Historians have concluded that Sir Thomas More married Alice so he could have a step-mother for his four children after his first wife, Jane, died in 1511.

Alice was also considered wealthy, as her first husband left her all of his estate, and her family owned property.

[5] She was married to Sir Thomas from 1511 until he was executed in 1535 after he was convicted of treason for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy.

Henry VIII of England instead allowed her a smaller annuity of £20 in 1537, to live on after his death.

[7] Her husband was canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1935 as a martyr of the schism that separated the Church of England from Rome.

Alice is a major role in the stage play A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt.