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'Alice Montagu' 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, daughter of Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel and Eleanor of Lancaster.
In 1420 she married Richard Neville, who became Earl of Salisbury on the death of his father-in-law in 1428. At the same time Alice became 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:

★ Cecille Neville, 1424 - 1450, who married Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick

★ Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick 1428 - 1471

★ John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu 1431 - 1471

★ George Neville 1432 - 1476, who became Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England

★ Joan Neville, 1434 - 1462, who married William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel

★ Katherine Neville, 1442 - 1503, who married first William Bonville, 6th Lord Harington and second William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings

★ Thomas Neville, 1443 - 1460, who was knighted in 1449 and died at the Battle of Wakefield

★ Eleanor Neville, 1447 - 1482, who married Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby

★ Alice Neville, c1460 ?- 1503, who married Henry FitzHugh, 6th Lord FitzHugh

★ Margaret Neville, c1460? - 1506, who married John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford