Biography of Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln 1281-1348

Before 1271 [her father] Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 19) and [her mother] Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln were married. She by marriage Countess Lincoln. He by marriage Earl Salisbury. They were fifth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 25th December 1281 Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln was born to [her father] Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 30) and [her mother] Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln at Denbigh Castle. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

After 25th December 1281 [her father] Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 30) and [her step-mother] Joan Fitzmartin Countess Lincoln were married. She by marriage Countess Lincoln.

In 1294 Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 16) and Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 12) were married. She the daughter of Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 43) and Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln. He the son of Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 48) and Blanche Capet Queen Navarre (age 46). They were half second cousin twice removed. He a grandson of King Henry III of England. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 5th June 1296 [her father-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 51) died at Bayonne [Map]. He was buried at Westminster Abbey [Map]. His son [her husband] Thomas (age 18) succeeded 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster. Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 14) by marriage Countess of Leicester, Countess Lancaster.

On 2nd April 1305 [her sister-in-law] Joan Blois I Queen Navarre (age 32) died.

In 1310 [her mother] Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln died.

In February 1311 [her husband] Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 33) by marriage Earl Salisbury, Earl Lincoln.

In February 1311 [her father] Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury (age 60) died at Lincoln's Inn. His daughter Alice (age 29) succeeded 5th Countess Salisbury, 5th Countess Lincoln, 10th Baroness Pontefract, 11th Baroness Halton. [her husband] Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 33) by marriage Earl Salisbury, Earl Lincoln.

In 1316 John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey (age 29) attempted to divorce his wife Joan of Bar Countess of Surrey (age 20). He blamed [her husband] Thomas Earl of Lancaster (age 38) for his failure to obtain a divorce so kidnapped Thomas' wife Alice de Lacy (age 34) Thomas retaliated by capturing Conisbrough Castle [Map]; King Edward (age 31) confirmed Thomas as the new owner. Thomas subsequenly rebelled against the King and was executed and King Edward took possession of Conisbrough Castle [Map]. Following the usurption of King Edward the castle was returned to John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey.

In 1317 Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 35) was abducted from her manor of Canford, Dorset, by some of the household Knights of John Warenne 7th Earl of Surrey (age 30). She may have been complicit in the abduction. Warenne appears to be using the abduction to attack her husband [her husband] Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 39). Lancaster proceeded to wage war agaonmt Warenne although he didn't request the return of his wife.

In 1318 Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 40) and Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 36) were divorced.

In March 1322 Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 40) was imprisoned at York [Map]. The reasons for her imprisonment are unclear.

In 1324 Eubulus Strange and Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 42) were married. She the daughter of Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury and Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln. They were second cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

In 1335 [her husband] Eubulus Strange died.

In 1336 Hugh de Freyne Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury and Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 54) were married. He by marriage Earl Salisbury, Earl Lincoln. She the daughter of Henry Lacy 4th Earl Lincoln, Earl Salisbury and Margaret Longespée 4th Countess of Salisbury and Lincoln.

In December 1336 [her husband] Hugh de Freyne Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury died.

On 2nd October 1348 Alice Lacy Countess Leicester, and Lancaster 5th Countess of Salisbury 5th Countess Lincoln (age 66) died without issue at Barlings Abbey [Map]. Earl Salisbury, Earl Lincoln, Baron Pontefract and Baron Halton extinct.

Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough. At the end of October, John of Eltham¹, brother of the King of England and Earl of Cornwall, died in the town of St John's [Perth], and was buried with honour in London. Hugh de Frenes also died there, a knight by birth, but, by reason of the Countess of Lincoln, made an earl.²

In fine mensis Octobris Johannes de Eltham, germanus regis Angliæ, comes Cornubiæ, obiit in villa Sancti Johannis, et Londoniis honorifice sepelitur. Obiit etiam ibidem Hugo de Frenes, miles quidem, sed ratione comitissæ Lincolniæ, comes factus fuit.

Note 1. John Plantagenet of Eltham, second son of King Edward II, created Earl of Cornwall in 1328. He was interred in St. Edmund's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, on the south side of the choir, where the tomb of white stone, with his effigies carved in alabaster, still remains.

Note 2. "Obiit etiam ibidem Hugo de Fernes comes Lincolniæ in mense Decembri," i.e. "Also there died Hugh de Ferrers, Earl of Lincoln, in the month of December." MS. Harl, 655.