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13 apr 2019 · Alice Perrers was born around 1348, when England was swept by the lethal Black Death. Maybe she realised that life was risky, and a girl should grab her chances. She was no aristocrat.
5 giorni fa · Perrers, Alice: favorita di Edoardo III (m. 1400). Entrata al servizio di Filippa di Hainaut (1366), divenne l'amante del re. Accusata dal “buon p...
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).
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.
13 dic 2015 · From this research two new facts emerged: first, that Alice had a brother named John Salisbury, and second, that before her relationship with the king she was married to a man named Janyn Perrers. However, many questions remained unanswered.
17 giu 2012 · Alice Perrers died in Upminster in the late summer of 1400, alone, forgotten and frustrated by a deluge of legal litigation. Her husband William de Windsor had died in 1384 and her children were grown and moved away with households of their own.
1 mar 1998 · Her position, her wealth, and even her fate were dependent upon the will of the king. There was, however, at least one notable exception. Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III, transcended her designated place early on in her career to become one of the wealthiest landowning women in later fourteenth-century England.
