Alice FitzHugh

Alice FitzHugh (c. 1448 – 10 July 1516) was the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh, and Lady Alice Neville. Alice was born at the ancestral castle of Ravensworth. She married Sir John Fiennes, the son of Sir Richard Fiennes and Joan Dacre, 7th Baroness Dacre.^[1] Alice was a first cousin of Queen consort Anne Neville and great-aunt of Queen consort Catherine Parr.

Family

She was one of ten children. Her siblings include Agnes, wife of Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell; Margery, who married Sir Marmaduke Constable; Joan, a nun; Lady Elizabeth, (grandmother to Queen Catherine Parr) who married William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Kendal and then Sir Nicholas Vaux; and Henry, 6th Baron FitzHugh who married Hon. Elizabeth Burgh, daughter of Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh; their son, George, inherited the barony of FitzHugh, but after his death in 1513 the barony fell into abeyance between Alice and her nephew Sir Thomas Parr. This abeyance continues to the present day.^[2]

Her maternal grandparents were Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Lady Alice Montague, 5th Countess of Salisbury, suo jure, only daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury and Lady Eleanor Holland. Her paternal grandparents were William FitzHugh, 4th Baron FitzHugh and Margery Willoughby. Through her grandfather, the Earl of Salisbury, she was a niece of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (known in history as "Warwick, the Kingmaker"), a grandniece of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (mother of King Edward IV and King Richard III) and a great-grandniece of King Henry IV. Through her great-grandmother, Eleanor Holland, she was a great-great-grandniece of King Richard II and was also related to the York line of Kings and their successor Henry Tudor, who became King Henry VII.

At about the age of seventeen, Alice was married to Sir John Fiennes on 19 November 1466 at her home in Ravensworth, Yorkshire, England. After her marriage she lived at Herstmonceux Castle in East Sussex, about 300 miles (500 km) away from her family and home.

Alice had five sons and one daughter:

• Anne Fiennes, Marchioness of Berkeley (about 1468 – 10 September 1497),^[3] married William de Berkeley, 1st Marquess of Berkeley, and secondly married Sir Thomas Brandon (1470 – 27 January 1509), brother of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk and thus brother-in-law of Mary Tudor, Queen of France.
• Thomas Fiennes, 8th Baron Dacre, married Anne Bourchier, the uterine sister of Elizabeth Boleyn, Lord Edmund Howard and Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, and thus "half-aunt" of Queen Anne Boleyn and Queen Catherine Howard.
• Richard Fiennes (born about 1476)
• Edward Fiennes (born about 1478)
• Roger Fiennes (born about 1480)
• William Fiennes (born about 1483)

Alice FitzHugh, along with her sister Elizabeth, are ancestresses of Lady Diana Spencer, Princess of Wales.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Alice FitzHugh

16. Hugh FitzHugh, 2nd Baron FitzHugh               8. Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh                       17. Joan Scrope               4. William FitzHugh, 4th Baron FitzHugh                             18. Sir Robert Grey               9. Elizabeth Grey                       19. Lora St. Quintin               2. Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh[4]                                   20. Robert Willoughby, 4th Baron Willoughby de Eresby               10. William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby                       21. Alice Skipwith               5. Marjory Willoughby                             22. Roger le Strange, 5th Baron Strange               11. Lucy Le Strange                       23. Alaive Fitzalan               1. Alice FitzHugh                                         24. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby               12. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland                       25. Maud Percy               6. Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury                             26. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster               13. Lady Joan Beaufort                       27. Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster               3. Lady Alice Neville[5]                                   28. John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury               14. Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury                       29. Maud Francis, Countess of Salisbury               7. Lady Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury                             30. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent               15. Lady Eleanor Holland                       31. Lady Alice Fitzalan

Notes

1. Lundy 2009, p. 2872 § 28717 cites: G. E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors. The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 135.
2. Crofts Peerage Online Baron FitzHugh
3. Lundy 2009, p. 2872 § 28717 cites: Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 1, page 1014. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
4. "Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron". Retrieved 2010-09-29.
5. "Alice Neville". Retrieved 2010-09-27.

References

• "Alice FitzHugh". tudorplace.com.ar.
• Lundy, Daryal (25 February 2009). "Alice FitzHugh". thePeerage.com. p. 2872 § 28717.