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12 de oct. de 2020 · Alice Perrers is the most famous English royal mistress between King Henry II’s Rosamund de Clifford and King Edward IV’s Jane Shore. Biographical information about Alice Perrers is sketchy but recent research by historians Mark Ormrod and Laura Tompkins has revealed new details about her early life. Alice Perrers was born around 1340 in ...
27 de feb. de 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.
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).
Alice Perrers, who was the mistress of the English king Edward III, probably belonged to the Hertfordshire family of Perrerses, though there was some talk that she was of more humble origins, possibly the daughter of a tiler from Essex. She entered royal service as a woman of the bedchamber to Queen Philippa of Hainault sometime before 1366.
19 de abr. de 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 sin...
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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 ...
Alice Perrers. Alice Perrers (1348–1400) was a fourteenth-century English 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. She went on to become the wealthiest woman in the land.
