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PERRERS (or DE WINDSOR), ALICE (d. 1400)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERRERS (or DE See also:WINDSOR), ALICE (d. 1400)  , See also:mistress of the See also:English See also:king See also:Edward III., belonged probably to the See also:Hertfordshire See also:family of See also:Perrers, although it is also stated that she was of more humble See also:birth . Before 1366 she had entered the service of Edward's See also:queen, Philippa, and she appears later as the wife of See also:Sir See also:William de See also:Windsor, See also:deputy of See also:Ireland (d . 1384) . Her intimacy with the king began about 1366, and during the next few years she received from him several grants of See also:land and gifts of jewels . Not content with the See also:great See also:influence which she obtained over Edward, Alice interfered in the proceedings of the courts of See also:law to secure sentences in favour of her See also:friends, or of those who had See also:purchased her favour; actions which induced the See also:parliament of 1376 to forbid all See also:women from practising in the law courts . Alice was banished, but See also:John of Gaunt, See also:duke of See also:Lancaster, allowed her to return to See also:court after the See also:death of Edward the See also:Black See also:Prince in See also:June 1376, and the parliament of 1397 reversed the See also:sentence against her . Again attempting to pervert the course of See also:justice, she was tried by the peers and banished after the death of Edward III. in June 1377; but this sentence was annulled two years later, and Alice regained some influence at court . Her See also:time, however, was mainly spent in lawsuits, one being with William of Wykeham, See also:bishop of See also:Winchester, and another with her dead See also:husband's See also:nephew and See also:heir, John de Windsor .

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