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Alice Perrers is the main character in Vanora Bennett's 2010 novel The People's Queen. She is a character in Jean Plaidy 's Vow on the Heron . She is portrayed in Rebecca Gablé 's Das Lächeln der Fortuna , a historical novel in the German language about the time-period.
John de Southeray (1364–1383) was an illegitimate son of King Edward III of England by his mistress Alice Perrers. He was the oldest of Perrers' three acknowledged illegitimate children by her royal lover. [1] He was knighted in April 1377, alongside the future King Richard II. [2]
The ransom forced Walter to mortgage his castle and Lordship of Egremont to Alice Perrers, the king's mistress. As a woman of her time, Alice was obliged to act through male agents, of whom the best-known Thomas de Thelwall, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. [2] He served in John of Gaunt Spanish campaign of 1386, where he died at sea.
(Main article: Alice Perrers) [better source needed] Alice Perrers, (circa 1348 –1400/1401) was an English royal mistress, lover of Edward III, King of England. Some sources attribute her as the daughter of a thatcher from Henny, while others place her from several alternative locations. As no birth record of Alice Perrers remains, many ...
[g] Alice Perrers, who afterwards became Windsor's wife, [h] had in 1369, when he first became Viceroy, received from him the amount destined for the expenses of his expedition and the payment of his men. [2] On Windsor's withdrawal from Ireland, anarchy broke out. Accordingly, on 20 September 1373 Edward reappointed him to the Viceroyalty.
Edward III's mistress, Alice Perrers, who was seen to hold far too much power over the ageing king, was banished from court. [181] [182] 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.
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However, late in their marriage the aged King met Alice Perrers, a young lady-in-waiting to the Queen. [29] Some sources have it that she became his mistress in 1363, six years before his wife's death; others date their relationship to the time when the Queen was terminally ill. [30]