Women / Persons ~ P14676
Alice Perrers
Gender: Female
Life Dates: ca. 1348 - 1400
Types:
- Beauty, celebrated
- English
- Expatriated, exiled person
- Lover or muse of writer or artist
- Mistress of royalty
- Self-made rich woman
- Sexual agency, transgression (hetero)
- Victim of injustice
Note: Potential prototype of Chaucer's Wife of Bath, mistress of King Edward III, lady-in-waiting to Philippa of Hainault, accused of seducing the King through sorcery, publicly denounced and banished, able to return to England later in life