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Há 2 dias · 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.
Há 5 dias · Some time before 1376 he married Alice Perrers, and at various times between 1379 and 1384 he received large grants, previously made to her and confiscated. He died in 1385. Windsor .
Há 4 dias · 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 Walsingham, the friar “fashioned figures made of wax for Alice, representing herself and Edward entwined and inseparable,” and gave her an enchanted memory ring to hold the king ...
Há 3 dias · Of the notables connected with Upminster the earliest was Alice Perrers (d. 1400), the mistress of Edward III, who lived and was buried in the parish. (fn. 94) Two 17th-century rectors, John Robotham and John Newton, are remembered by scholars for their writings on religion and mathematics, and a third, William Derham, Canon of Windsor (d. 1735 ...
Há 4 dias · Alice Perrers held it up to the time of her conviction, and after her forfeiture in 1377 Richard II in 1379 granted it, together with the tenements called Harpesbourne, Marlepitts, Latymers, and Halles, to Sir Thomas Peytevyn for his life, and in the following year he gave the fee simple to Sir William de Wyndesore, then the husband ...
Há 3 dias · 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 ...
Há 5 dias · 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?
