Alice Neville

By her father she was a descendant of King Edward III through the legitimised children of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and his mistress, later wife, Katherine Roët.

Her aunt, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, mother of future kings and Alice's first cousins, Edward IV and Richard III, was another key figure in the dynastic civil wars that dominated most of the latter half of 15th-century England.

[3] The position of lady-in-waiting to the queens of England became a family tradition spanning down to Lady FitzHugh's great-granddaughter, Anne Parr, who served all of King Henry VIII's six wives.

[7] After the death of her husband in 1483, Lady FitzHugh along with her children Richard, Roger, Edward, Thomas, and Elizabeth joined the Corpus Christi guild at York.

[8] Lady Alice married Henry, Lord FitzHugh of Ravensworth Castle, near Richmond (1429–72), head of a powerful local family between Tees and Swale.

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick , also known as Warwick the Kingmaker , was the eldest brother of Alice Neville.
Ravensworth Castle , home of the Lord FitzHughs of Ravensworth until it was transferred to Alice and Henry's descendants by Sir Thomas Parr [ 9 ]