Warriors and Wenches by Michelle Rosenberg

Author:Michelle Rosenberg
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
Publisher: Pen and Sword / Pen and Sword History

Alice Perrers aka Alice de Windsor (1348-1400)

Alice was the ruthless and highly ambitious mistress of Plantagenet King Edward III of England. She was also lady in waiting to his wife, Philippa of Hainault and thought to be the inspiration behind Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath in The Canterbury Tales.

Suffice to say that history and contemporary accounts do not treat her kindly. Before she came on the scene, the royal couple (married for 40 years) were said to have enjoyed a happy and contented marriage.

Alice became one of the richest and probably one of the most despised women in the country. She is described as being singularly ungifted in the looks department and was therefore accused of witchcraft by her detractors, for still being able to sexually and emotionally bewitch a feeble king who should have known better.

She was born in the 1340s, daughter of a Hertfordshire landowner although reports in the St. Albans Chronicle, (Sir Richard had an acrimonious dispute with St. Albans Abbey) claim her beginnings were much more humble, referring to her father as a tiler and her mother as a tavern whore.

Perrers seated beside King Edward III, being read to by Chaucer, imagined by artist Ford Madox Brown, painting exhibited in 1851.

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