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Royal Mistress. Although she became lover to Edward III while working as a lady-in-waiting to his Queen Philippa, her position was not acknowledged until the Queen's death after which Edward began to lavish gifts such as jewels and property upon her. They had a son together, John de Southeray.
Context. Personal data Alice (Concubine) of Perrers deWindsor. Sources 1, 2, 3, 4. She was born in the year 1340 in Hertfordshire, England. Sources 3, 4. Attention: Was younger than 16 years (0) when child (Joan of England) was born (??-07-1321) . Attention: Was younger than 16 years (15) when child (Jonette England) was born (??-??-1355) .
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Just as the language of Middle English was deeply infused with elements of French language and culture, England as a nation was, in many ways, shaped by its relationship to France. In 1066, Duke William of Normandy sailed across the channel to claim England, asserting that England’s King Edward the Confessor had promised him the throne. Since that ...
In the late 1340s, approximately a decade into the Hundred Years’ War, England felt the downside of increased contact with the continent: plague. In 1348, two years after what became known as the Black Death swept through continental Europe, the plague reached England and decimated its population. The population of England, together with Wales, had...
The 1388 Statute was, however, enacted within a somewhat different political and social environment than the first two labour laws. Edward III died in 1377, leaving his grandson Richard II as a child king responsible for maintaining the martial campaigns against France and keeping the commons under control. With significant increases in wartime tax...
The increasing unrest and violence in England during the latter half of the fourteenth century was not limited to the social and political spheres; it extended to religion as well. In the 1360s and 1370s, a popular and respected theologian by the name of John Wyclif studied and taught at Oxford University, producing over the years a huge corpus of ...
These fourteenth-century anxieties – about Lollardy, about England’s claim to France, about royal authority, and about labourers becoming wealthy beyond their correct social position – were, at their core, very similar. In all of these situations, power was disrupted, removed from its purportedly true place in order to be wielded by someone else – ...
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So, for example, in 1376 Parlia ment accused Edward Ill's mistress, Alice Perrers (ca. 1340-1400), of winning the king's affection through sorcery. Even more notoriously, Eleanor Cobham (ca. 1400-1454), first mistress and then second wife to Duke Humphrey of Gloucester (who was the uncle and heir apparent of King Henry VI), was tried on charges.
After successfully fathering perhaps too many heirs to the throne, he came under the influence of his mistress, Alice Perrers. Upon his death, at 64, he was succeeded by his infant grandson, Richard II. During Richard's minority, his uncle John, duke of Lancaster, ruled in his stead as "regent."
John of Gaunt (1340-1399), Duke of Lancaster, Earl of Richmond, King of Castile and Leon [Sept. 1378], 4th son of William III by mistress, Alice Perrers; married to Blanche (d. 1369), Constantine of Castile (1378), and Kathryn Swynford (John's mistress since c. 1376, married 1396); Regent during minority of Richard II; opposed by Black Prince ...
