Richard Neville

   Cause of his death was (in battle).

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Mary-Ann Cook who writes:
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, was a Yorkist leader during the early parts of the Wars of the Roses. Richard Neville was born in 1400 at Raby Castle in County Durham. Although he was the 3rd son (and tenth child) of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Richard Neville was the first child to be born to Ralph`s second wife, Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmoreland. The Neville lands were primarily in Durham and Yorkshire, but both Richard II and Henry IV found the family useful to counterbalance the strength of the Percies on the Scottish Borders - hence Earl Ralph`s title, granted in 1397, and his appointment as Warden of the West March in 1403. Ralph`s marriage to Joan Beaufort, at a time when the distinction between royality and nobility was becoming more important can be seen as another reward, for as a grand-daughter of Edward III she was a member of the royal family.
The children of Earl Ralph`s first wife had made good marriages to local nobility, but his Beaufort children married into much greater families. Three of Richard`s sisters married dukes (the youngest Cecily, marrying Richard, Duke of York), and Richard himself married Alice Montague, heiress of the Earl of Salisbury. Alice had royal blood in her veins, being descended on her mother`s side from Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, grand-daughter of Edward I. Alice`s father Thomas had been one of the leading English commanders in France during the latter stages of the Hundred Years War after the death of Henry V. Thomas`s death at the Siege of Orleans in 1428 was a calamity for the English cause.
The date of Richard and Alice`s marriage is not known, but it must have been before February 1421, when as a married couple they appeared at the coronation of Queen Catherine of Valois. At the time of the marriage the Salisbury inheritance was not guaranteed, as not only was Earl Thomas still alive, but in 1424 he re-married (to Alice Chaucer, grand-daughter of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer). However, this second marriage was without issue, and when Earl Thomas`s uncle Richard died in 1429, Richard Neville and Alice were confirmed as Earl and Countess of Salisbury. From now on Richard Neville will be referred to as Salisbury.

Richard married Alice De Montagu, daughter of Thomas De Montagu and Eleanor Holland. (Alice De Montagu was born circa 1407 in Salisbury, Wiltshire England and died before 9 Dec 1462 in Bisham, Berkshire England.)