Alice Perrers

Also known as: Alice Perers / dame Alice Peres · Family: England · Role: courtier · First appears: Richard II 3

Life events

• c. 1377 · Alice Perrers was banished, and her movable and immovable goods were forfeited to Richard II.(Richard II 3 · 📍 Westminster)
  • With: Peter de la Mere Richard II
  • “the foresaid sir Peter de la Mere and other the knights that had beene so earnest against dame Alice Peres in the last parlement holden by king Edward the third, so prosecuted the same cause now in this parlement, that the said dame Alice Peres was banished the realme, and all hir goods mooueable and vnmooueable forfeited to the king”
• c. 1404 · John of Gaunt and Alice Perrers procured Edward III to banish William of Wykeham.(Henry IV 16)
  • With: Edward III John of Gaunt William of Wykeham
  • “Iohn duke of Lancaster, and Alice Perers king Edwards concubine, conceiuing some great displeasure against him, found meane to procure the king to banish him the realme”

Richard II 3

• enemies with Peter de la Mere “In this parlement the foresaid sir Peter de la Mere and other the knights that had beene so earnest against dame Alice Peres in the last parlement holden by king Edward the third, so prosecuted the same cause now in this parlement, that the said dame Alice Peres was banished the realme, and all hir goods mooueable and vnmooueable forfeited to the king, bicause contrarie to that she had promised by oth in the said last parlement, she had presumed to come within the court, and to obteine of the king what soeuer was to hir liking.”
• enemies with Richard II “In this parlement the foresaid sir Peter de la Mere and other the knights that had beene so earnest against dame Alice Peres in the last parlement holden by king Edward the third, so prosecuted the same cause now in this parlement, that the said dame Alice Peres was banished the realme, and all hir goods mooueable and vnmooueable forfeited to the king, bicause contrarie to that she had promised by oth in the said last parlement, she had presumed to come within the court, and to obteine of the king what soeuer was to hir liking.”

Henry IV 16

• enemies with William of Wykeham “But at length Iohn duke of Lancaster, and Alice Perers king Edwards concubine, conceiuing some great displeasure against him, found meane to procure the king to banish him the realme”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.