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Alice Perrers, also known as Alice de Windsor (circa 1348 –1400/1401) was an English royal mistress, lover of Edward III, King of England. As a result of his patronage, she became the wealthiest and most influential woman in the country. She was widely despised and accused of taking advantage of the old king. [1] [2]
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Apr 1, 2024 · Alice Perrers (died 1400) was the mistress of King Edward III of England. She exercised great influence at the aging monarch’s court from about 1369 until 1376. She belonged probably to the Hertfordshire family of Perrers, although it is also stated that she was of more humble birth. Before 1366 she had entered the service of Edward’s queen ...
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Alice Perrers is known in history as the mistress of King Edward III of England (1312 – 1377) in his later years. She had become his mistress by 1363 or 1364, when she was probably about 15-18 years old, and he was 52. Some Chaucer scholars have asserted that Alice Perrers’ patronage of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer helped to bring him to his ...
Aug 18, 2021 · Born 1348, Alice Perrers was an English royal mistress whose lover and patron was King Edward III of England. While there is no record of her birth, evidence suggests Alice was the daughter of a ...
aa series of vivid vignettes about Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III.2. Walsingham clearly abhorred Alice. She was an ambitious woman. who overcame the disabilities of origin and gender to become one of. the most powerful figures at court in the mid-1370s.
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.
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Perrers, Alice. views 3,480,486 updated. Alice Perrers (pĕr´ərz), d. 1400, mistress of Edward III of England. She entered the service of Edward's queen, Philippa of Hainaut, and married a courtier, Sir William de Windsor. Becoming the king's mistress possibly as early as 1366, she wielded great influence over him.
