Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk was an English noblewoman and patron of the arts, granddaughter of the English poet Geoffrey Chaucer. Married three times, she eventually became a Lady of the Most No
Alice de la Pole, detail from her effigy in Ewelme Church, Oxfordshire
Monument (north side) to Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk, St Mary's Church, Ewelme
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury, KG of Bisham in Berkshire, was an English nobleman and one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years' War.
Alice Chaucer, Duchess of Suffolk
…capture of the fortress of Harfleur in Normandy. Sir John is buried at St Mary and All Saints' Church, Kidderminster. Secondly, after 1421, Alice married Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury (1388–1428), one of the most important English commanders during the Hundred Years' War, who died at the Siege of Orléans. Thirdly, in 1430, she married…
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury and his wife Lady Eleanor Holland (Wrythe Garter Book). On her mantle she displays her husband's arms (as displayed on his breastplate) impaling her paternal arms (Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent) Plantagenet with a bordure argent.
Thomas Montagu, 4th Earl of Salisbury is fatally injured at the siege of Orléans in 1428 (illustration from Vigiles de Charles VII).