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Hace 1 día · 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 2 días · The devious bishop sewed “prayers and charms” inside his fighter’s coat to give him an edge. The stratagem was discovered, but the cunning cleric won the castle and kept his miter. A decade later, a Dominican friar whipped up love charms for the mistress of King Edward III, Alice Perrers. According to the spiteful chronicler Thomas ...
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 1 día · In her spirited and richly detailed “Cunning Folk,” Tabitha Stanmore, a specialist in medieval and early modern magic, writes that between the 14th and 17th centuries, “a whole host of ...
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 · Alice Perrers (1348 - 1400) Also known as Alice of Windsor, she was the lover of Edward III, King of England. This made her one of the wealthiest and most influential women in the country.
Hace 2 días · Shortly after, the manor was in the hands of William de la Marche and Thomas Wershepe, who apparently sold it to the celebrated Alice Perrers, mistress of Edward III, who claimed her estate in the manor from Thomas FitzJohn.
