1. Alice de Salisbury, known as Alice de Windsor was a mistress of King Edward III of England.
21 Facts About Alice Perrers
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Alice Perrers was widely despised and accused of taking advantage of the old king.
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Alice Perrers's ancestry has been the topic of much speculation, which is detailed below.
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Alice Perrers became a part of the household of Queen Philippa as a domicella before 1359.
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Alice Perrers became the mistress of the king, Edward III around 1366, when she was around 18 years old and the King 55.
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Alice Perrers reportedly provoked fear, and no one dared to sue her.
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Alice Perrers was seen as an ambitious, calculating, cold-hearted opportunist who manipulated the elderly King.
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Towards the end of Edward III's life, Alice Perrers was even accused of making his life miserable, and it is reported that she even stole the rings off his fingers after the King died.
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In 1376, an ordinance aimed specifically at Alice Perrers set penalties for women who practiced "maintenance", interfering in the due process of the law.
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Alice Perrers was tried for corruption and subsequently exiled from England by the Good Parliament, her lands forfeit.
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Alice Perrers was later able to return and regain some of her lands, but she would spend the rest of her life trying to get everything back.
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At the height of her power, Alice Perrers possessed 56 manors, castles and town houses in over 25 counties of England, only 15 of which were gifts from the king.
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Alice Perrers is thought to have served as the prototype for Geoffrey Chaucer's Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales.
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Alice Perrers was a shameless, impudent harlot, and of low birth, for she was the daughter of a thatcher from the town of Henny, elevated by fortune.
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Alice Perrers was not attractive or beautiful, but knew how to compensate for these defects with the seductiveness of her voice.
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Alice Perrers had three illegitimate children with King Edward III during the lifetime of Queen Philippa, thus between 1366 and 1369 :.
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Alice Perrers is the main character in Vanora Bennett's 2010 novel The People's Queen.
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Alice Perrers is a character in Jean Plaidy's Vow on the Heron.
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Alice Perrers is portrayed in Rebecca Gable's Das Lacheln der Fortuna, a historical novel in the German language about the time-period.
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Alice Perrers is the protagonist of the 2012 novel The King's Concubine by Anne O'Brien.
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Alice Perrers appears in The Traitor's Noose, the fourth novel in the Lions and Lilies series by Catherine A Wilson and Catherine T Wilson.