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Hace 2 días · Edward's mistress, Alice Perrers, who was seen to hold far too much power over the ageing king, was banished from court. Yet the real adversary of the Commons, supported by powerful men such as Wykeham and Edmund Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March, was John of Gaunt.
Hace 3 días · It is probable that John Bernes and his colleagues, the purchasers of the manor in 1373, were acting as trustees for Alice Perrers, who was certainly in possession of the property a short time afterwards. The circumstances of Alice Perrers' birth are lost in oblivion.
Hace 4 días · Ravenscourt Park, at the north-western extremity of Hammersmith, marks the site of the ancient manor-house of Pallenswick, which is supposed to have belonged to Alice Perrers, or Pierce, a lady of not very enviable fame at the court of Edward III., upon whose banishment, in 1378, the place was seized by the Crown.
Hace 2 días · Behind every great man is a woman, and King Edward III had two great women: his wife, Queen Philippa, and his scheming mistress, Alice Perrers. Learn how these two women navigated gender and power in a world run by men.
Hace 4 días · Or is it something else again – perhaps the drama of the king’s long, slow, decline into senility and his infatuation with the notorious Alice Perrers, episodes associated with his closing years which have both damaged his reputation and blinded us to his achievements?
Hace 3 días · Lands including Gunnersbury, late of John of Northwich, goldsmith, were conveyed in 1373 by feoffees to those of Edward III's mistress Alice Perrers. Alice forfeited them but her husband William of Windsor was granted Gunnersbury in 1380, to hold to the use of her and her heirs.
Hace 3 días · Alice turned up to a 19th century English ball dressed in an costume fit for Chinese royalty (designed by Colleen Atwood). Alice loved it, but it didn't go down so well at the austere Victorian party. She fitted right in when she arrived in Wonderland, though.
