Lady Alice Norreys (previously Dame Alice Norreys; c. 1405 – c. 1450) was an

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Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. Alice was probably born at

Yattendon Castle Yattendon Castle was a fortified manor house located in the civil parish of Yattendon, in the hundred of Faircross, in the English county of Berkshire. History The site upon which Yattendon castle stood was originally occupied by a moated ma ...

, her family's

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seat. She was the daughter and heiress of Sir Richard Merbrook of

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. She married Sir John Norreys around 1425 and the couple inherited

about 1440. As well as Yattendon and

Ockwells Manor Ockwells Manor is a timber-framed 15th century manor house in the civil parish of Cox Green, adjoining Maidenhead, in the English county of Berkshire. It was previously in the parish of Bray. The manor used to own most of the land that is n ...

in Bray, they spent much of their life resident in

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where Sir John was Master of the Wardrobe to King Henry VI. They had four children: *

Sir William Norreys Sir William Norreys (c. 1441 – before 10 January 1507) was a famous Lancastrian soldier, and later an Esquire of the Body to King Edward IV. Probably born at Yattendon Castle, William was the eldest son of Sir John Norreys of Ockwells and ...

(1433-4 January 1507) *John Norreys,

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and

*Agnes Norreys, married William Bulstrode of Upton in

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*Lettice Norreys, married Sir John Harcourt of

Stanton Harcourt Stanton Harcourt is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about southeast of Witney and about west of Oxford. The parish includes the hamlet of Sutton, north of the village. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 960. Arch ...

in Oxfordshire Alice was created a Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in 1448. She died sometime after 1448 and was probably buried alongside her husband in the Norreys Chapel (of St. Nicholas) in Bray Church in

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