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Alice Fleming (born c.1508) was an English noblewoman who became Lady Slane and a conspirator.

Life
Lady Alice Fitzgerald was born in about 1508. She was the daughter of Gerald FitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare and Elizabeth Zouche, daughter of Sir John Zouche of Codnor and Elizabeth St John. Her mother was a cousin of King Henry VII,. Her brother was Thomas FitzGerald, 10th Earl of Kildare, Her father later married Lady Elizabeth Grey and Alice gained six more half-siblings. She was brought up at Maynooth Castle as part of the FitzGerald dynasty⋅.

When her father was summoned to London to explain his running vendetta with a rival family she was taken along. Her father planned that she would be sent back alone if he became a de facto prisoner. This proved to be the case and she returned on ......

Her brother was executed after he had surrendered with his five uncles at Tyburn on 3 February 1537. According to G. G. Nichols, the five uncles were "...draune from the Tower in to Tyborne, and there alle hongyd and hedded and quartered, save the Lord Thomas for he was but hongyd and hedded and his body buried at the Crost Freeres in the qwere..."

Family
She married Christopher Fleming, 8th Baron Slane and they had three children:


 * James Fleming, 9th Baron Slane
 * Eleanor
 * Catherine, who married Sir Christopher Barnewall and was the main heiress of her brother James, who died childless.

Her date of death is unknown but she was known to be alive in 1540 and probably in 1561.