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14 gen 2019 · For centuries Alice Perrers has been portrayed as an ugly but intelligent woman, who seduced a King, took him for all she could get, and then disappeared in to a quiet retirement. But recent work by historians, particularly around documents held at the National Archives, have managed to draw out a more rounded picture. Alice's origins are unknown.
27 feb 2022 · Alice Perrers rise to prominence. It was as one of Queen Philippa’s ladies-in-waiting that Alice Perrers began to be noteworthy. At some point before the death, in 1369, of Queen Philippa, the young Alice Perrers had become King Edward III’s secret mistress. Following the Queen’s death, the affair became public.
4 apr 2024 · Alice Perrers (1348 – 1400) was a royal mistress whose lover and patron was King Edward III of England. She met him originally in her capacity as a lady-in-waiting to Edward's consort, Philippa of Hainault. As a result of her liaison, she acquired significant land holdings. Life and Family.
Alice Perrers is one of the best-known political figures in the history of later medieval England. Emerging from obscurity in the 1360s to become the mistress of King Edward III and mother to his illegitimate children, Alice used her position at court to develop a very significant portfolio of real estate across the English shires and facilitated the king's dealings with the group of ...
The correlation between female power, sexual wantonness, and avarice is also a prominent theme in the life of Isabeau's near contemporary, Alice Perrers. Alice was the mistress of the chivalric hero Edward III of England during the less glorious “final” years of his reign, from approximately 1361 to his death in 1377.
22 mar 2022 · Alice Perrers was the literal definition of a manipulative mistress, though we have to have some sympathy for her—she has been hated in her time and ever since. Alice was perhaps born around 1348, though the exact year or date is unknown, she was probably born in Hertfordshire. Little is known of her early life, including her parentage and if ...
PERRERS or de WINDSOR, ALICE ( d. 1400), mistress of Edward III, was, according to the hostile St. Albans chronicler ( Chron. Angliæ, p. 95), a woman of low birth, the daughter of a tiler at Henney, Essex, and had been a domestic drudge. Another account makes her the daughter of a weaver from Devonshire (see Duchetiana, p. 300).
