The management of position
Alice Perrers, Edward III, and the creation of a landed estates, 1362–1377
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11892216 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Bothwell (0000-0002-5341-8924, University of York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-51 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Medieval History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4181 • E-ISSN: 1873-1279 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1016/s0304-4181(97)00017-1 |
| OpenAlex | W1977716904 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
The role of royal mistress in the Middle Ages was mainly a passive one. Her position, her wealth, and even her fate were dependent upon the will of the king. There was, however, at least one notable exception. Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III, transcended her designated place early on in her career to become one of the wealthiest landowning women in later fourteenth-century England. More importantly, unlike many male royal favourites of the period, she did so primarily not through direct royal intervention but of her own initiative—making free use of the funds available to the king, but letting her own business sense determine the form their conversion into landed wealth would take. Indeed, while Perrers obviously used her position vis á vis Edward III to promote her own interests, the lands she acquired without direct royal patronage can nonetheless be shown to form the vast majority of her properties upon her forfeiture in 1377. This article examines the main features of one of the fastest, and most impressive, accumulations of a landed estate by a woman in the later Middle Ages
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| Citations per year | 0.06 |
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| Citation span | 2008 - 2008 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |