Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury

Richard Neville
Earl of Salisbury
Arms of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, KG
Spouse(s)	Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury
Issue Joan Neville, Countess of Arundel Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick Alice Neville, Baroness FitzHugh John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu George Neville, Archbishop of York Eleanor Neville, Countess of Derby Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings Thomas Neville (died 1460) Margaret Neville, Countess of Oxford
Noble family	House of Neville
Father	Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mother	Lady Joan Beaufort
Born	1400
Died	31 December 1460 (age 60)

Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury and 7th and 4th Baron Montacute KG PC (1400 – 31 December 1460) 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 third son (and tenth child) of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, Richard Neville was the first son 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 Percys 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 royalty and nobility was becoming more important, can be seen as another reward; as a granddaughter 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 even greater families. Three of Richard's sisters married dukes (the youngest Cecily, marrying Richard, Duke of York), and Richard himself married Alice Montacute, daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, the Earl of Salisbury.