This is a fitting point at which to stop, since, with the death without direct heirs of this Alice de Lacy in 1348,⁶³ the senior line of descent from the first Longespée couple came to an end (Fig. 10.21). Alice was the last representative of that line and its claim to the Salisbury title. In fact, of course, neither Alice nor her forbears back to the eldest son of Earl William and Countess Ela had used the comital title (although its association with Alice was strong enough for her to be given the title, ‘countess of Lincoln and of Salisbury’, in the endorsement of the deed of 1322 cited above); and Edward III had, in 1337 before Alice’s death, assumed the extinction of the title in the old line by conferring it upon William de Montagu, a member of an entirely different family.⁶⁴ I have not traced the later history of the Longespée arms and devices, but of their vibrancy in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries there can surely be no doubt.