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"In the early 1360s Edward III took as his mistress Alice Perrers, the daughter of a London goldsmith and widow of one of the King’s jewellers, Janyn Perrers. Alice’s opponents would later viciously exaggerate her low birth—Thomas Walsingham claimed that her father was a thatcher—so it has only been in this century that her true identity was revealed by Mark Ormrod and Laura Tompkins. Alice became one of Philippa’s demoiselles, but supplemented her income from Philippa with a role as a moneylender to merchants and gentry. During Philippa’s lifetime she began investing her wealth in property that, Tompkins has estimated, would eventually approach £2000 per annum in value—an income that exceeded that of some earls.
Alice bore the King a son, John Southeray, in about 1365 and from 1367 she received a number of royal grants. Her name is notably absent from the list of Philippa’s ladies who received bequests in the Queen’s will. Philippa died in 1369 and, unlike other widowed kings of the later Middle Ages, Edward III seems to have made no attempt to look for a replacement queen. Alice then emerged as a public figure, richly rewarded by the King, and sought out by courtiers for her influence over him. In 1373 Edward gave her a collection of the queen’s jewels and the following year the Pope himself included her among those he petitioned to influence Edward III to engineer his brother’s freedom from captivity. Alice subsequently stole the show at a royal tournament at Smithfeld when she dressed as “the Lady of the Sun.” Her choice of outft was probably a deliberate spin on Edward III’s own sunburst emblem.
Alice was indubitably a skilled businesswoman with an impressive grasp of property law, but she was also abusing her closeness to the King in order to build up her wealth. Moreover, contemporaries identifed her as the heart of a disruptive and malign court clique. Tompkins has argued that Alice’s powerful and self-serving influence over the King was perceived as “inverting queenship.” During the Good Parliament of 1376, Alice was condemned for the use of maintenance, accused of taking thousands of pounds from the Exchequer, and ordered to stay away from the court, under threat of banishment.
Thomas Walsingham reported that at this time her accomplice in seducing the King was also arrested, a Dominican friar who was an “evil magician” and had used wax effgies of the King and Alice to enable her to “get whatever she wanted from the King.” There is no corroborating evidence for this story of arrest, but the idea that low status women could only attract the admiration of kings or nobles through witchcraft was a pervasive one, especially apparent in Elizabeth Woodville’s story [...], and probably also in that of a later quasi-queen, Eleanor Cobham [...].
Just months after the Good Parliament, the King had pardoned Alice, but he died the following year. At some point in the 1370s she had taken a second husband, Sir William Windsor, who spent most of his career in Ireland. In the autumn of 1377, Alice was accused of having persuaded Edward III to countermand an order to investigate charges against Windsor the previous year and to pardon one of her business associates. Alice was sentenced to banishment and forfeiture of all goods and lands. Although this banishment was revoked in 1379, her subsequent attempts to regain her possessions were consistently frustrated. She died in the winter of 1401–1402, bequeathing her “usurped” lands to her two daughters by the King. Their son had predeceased her.
Unlike the later quasi-queens, Alice’s position came from sharing a king’s bed and was thus closer to that of an actual consort. By contrast, her low social status and ineligibility to produce an heir to the throne made her less like a queen consort than her successors. She was thus better physically positioned to exert influence but ideologically wholly separated from any authority to do so."
J.L Laynesmith and Elena Woodacre, "The Later Medieval English Consorts: Power, Infuence, Dynasty", Later Plantagenets and Wars of the Roses Consorts
#she 💜#historicwomendaily#alice perrers#edward iii#i guess#14th century#english history#the way people talk about her is so disgusting#imagine thinking that a teenage commoner 'seduced' or 'took advantage of' the 50+ year King of England#my post
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Despite the conviction of earlier scholars, like Jourda, of Marguerite's lack of political interest, she was one of the few women ever to become a ducal peer in France. The king explicitly gave his sister the duchy of Berry as a ducal peerage, and made it clear that she was given all the traditional rights held by any male duke, and in one acte explicitly stated that Marguerite was to hold all the traditional ducal powers in Alençon, adding that this included authority over the ducal exchequer.
A close look at Marguerite's correspondence with various parlements and other government officials, as well as some of her own actes, demonstrates that Marguerite was active in the administration of her territories, and also that she was a strong proponent on behalf of the nobility within those territories, operating as a powerful patron on their behalf. I argue that rather than holding titles and territories only in an honorary way, Marguerite was given and fully exercised wide political power within her territories, and at times this led to confrontations with the king about the extent of monarchical authority over that of the upper nobility.
The Power and Patronage of Marguerite de Navarre, Barbara Stephenson
#she 💜#marguerite of angouleme#marguerite of navarre#marguerite de navarre#french history#history#quotes#mine*
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"now entering my furry era" it's my time. do you want to see my art of ianthe as a literal ratgirl
WHERE IS IT
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If my mom sees a significant amount of blood she gets lightheaded, and has fainted on some occasions. Once it happened when we were kids, I wasn't there to witness it but I heard the story from my dad. Basically my brothers, around 7 or 8 at the time, were playing outside while my mom was making their lunch, and she accidentally cut her finger. It wasn't anything serious, but it drew a fair bit of blood and she passed out. My dad saw this and rushed over, but he didn't really know what to do so he just sort of started slapping her to wake her up (not recommended, but he had no idea and panicked)
At that exact moment my brothers both came in from playing, and all they saw was our mom unconscious on the floor and our dad slapping her. So, like, without even saying a word to each other they both just INSTANTLY start whaling on him, like, full blown attack mode to defend our mom. Which obviously didn't help the situation, but she did wake up and everything was fine.
Now our dad says that he's actually really glad they attacked him over what they thought was going on, because it means he raised good boys. And I still think that's true, they're very good boys.
#i think about this story sometimes like yeah I'm proud of them for that too actually. good job baby brothers#they're not babies anymore of course they're turning 20 next year which is crazy#but they're still the type of people who'd do something if they saw something of this sort happen for sure#respectful of women and everyone else too. they're good guys#I'm glad I ended up with them living in my house against my will for like 14 years#anyway i have no idea where i was for all this but my best guess is probably a friends house given the time period#i was always at my besties house lol#i hope she's doing well too actually. haven't spoken in forever...#bestie from greek elementary school... if you're out there... let's get muffins and fanta at the bakery across the street again someday 💜☮️
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FNAF movie Vanessa gets a new family..
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf movie#abby schmidt#mike schmidt#fnaf vanessa#vanessa shelly#merry christmas#merry Christmas everyone#the idea Vanessa finds her new family within Abby and Mike#is just so sweet and I hope is the case in the next film#where she’s with people who actually love and care about her#finally not so alone#please protect them at all costs I’ll disintegrate if anything bad happens to em 💜
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Nightwarden.
#sharp sharp woman#i love you so much#minthara#minthara baenre#bg3#baldur’s gate 3#art#fanart#Matron MOTHER💜#she told me to shut up and i set myself on fire#full disclosure i referenced a lot of things from an igor sid painting#i think she looks like she just came out of diablo 4…
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yknow that one meme
#kinda ooc bc i dont think jamil will just send that text out of nowhere#but it’s funny#and i make my own reality#sorry jamil you cant compare to grim 😔#also yuusha caught that photo of him and she will not let him forget it#it's his pfp for her contact of him AND it's her lock screen#[—✦-#-✧ my art#twst art#twisted wonderland#twst#twst oc x canon#jamil viper#jamiyuu#jamil x yuu#twst yuu#twst yuusona#(💜) yuusha#(💜) curry noodles#-✦—]
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#I just want to see Imogen happy
#critical role#ygifs#cr3#imogen#my girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#holds early c3 imogen close!!!!!! she did it!! she does it!! character of all time!!!#the love story of imogen and laura I will sit here and I will lose it#imogen being the exploration of anxiety restraint selfdeprecation realizing into a woman who is as strong as she is kind#frames the happy endings* imogen got to have for her major character arcs like no one else deserves it like her💜
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totally lore-accurate swanqueen screencap redraws 4/∞
they're on their first date :3c
#swan queen#swanqueen#regina mills#emma swan#once upon a time#ouat#my art#sq art#sq redraw#i wanted to draw this scene mainly because regina just looked SO PLEASED WITH HERSELF i love her face#but i'm not super happy with the result :<#shoulda picked a different scene after all i felt like i couldn't really do much with this one#(or maybe i'm just not good enough at drawing her yet she's so difficult aaaa)#but i still wanted to finish this anyway!!#i hope you enjoy :>#thank u also for sending me asks with recommendations for scenes for me to redraw!!#i'll keep them in my inbox until i get around to them#thank you so much for the warm welcome to this space ; -; 💜#i'm so happy to see this ship still very much alive after all this time
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BETTINA ♡ INFINITY NIKKI
#infinity nikki#无限暖暖#bettina#dailygaming#dailyvideogames#gamingnetwork#videogamewomen#gamingedit#video games#*4#paper games#姐姐们给个姬会吧!!#hey...im in love 👉👈😳💜💜💙💙 she so cool#the problem i have with this game is that it's 60gb large but you cant replay any of the main story line ??????#so whenever i feel like something cool is going to happen i quickly switch to max and record and hope its something good
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What is remarkable, however, is not the amount of land Alice [Perrers] received passively as gifts of the king, but that she actually acquired the majority of her estate through her own initiative. Of her total landholdings, she independently obtained forty-three manors and twenty-seven other properties compared to the twenty-five manors and twenty-five other properties she received directly from the king. In terms of cash outlay, Alice spent an impressive £3,360 purchasing just fourteen properties. Moreover, because a large number of the lands from the king were granted as part of wardships, the number of manors therefore represents a much smaller number of individual grants. In contrast to this, each of Alice’s own acquisitions generally encompassed only one or two manors and associated properties at a time. Many of these lands were not held or acquired by Alice directly. Instead, she employed the legal mechanism of enfeoffment-to-use, whereby a select group of loyal men owned and disposed of the property on Alice’s behalf, taking the profits to her use. This process could be extremely complex, and in theory meant that the landowner could avoid feudal incidents from the crown and loss of land through forfeiture. Undoubtedly aware of the vulnerable position she would find herself in following Edward III’s death, Alice used enfeoffment-to-use on no fewer than seventy-eight occasions to either acquire or transfer property. Unfortunately for her, however, the greatest testament to Alice’s use of this device is the fact that the terms of her forfeiture were specifically expanded to cover property held in this form, something which set a precedent for all future parliamentary forfeiture and attainders. Although Alice undoubtedly used her position as Edward’s mistress to her advantage in these transactions—in terms of both influence and resources—this proactive, independent, and intelligent acquisition and management of her estate is, therefore, nonetheless remarkable for any individual, male or female, of her time.
— Laura Tompkins, '"Edward III's Gold Digging Mistress": Alice Perrers, Gender, and Financial Power at the English Royal Court, 1360-1377'", Women and Economic Power in Premodern Courts (edited by Cathleen Sarti)
#she 💜#honestly my interest in Alice predates my interest in medieval English (or European tbh) history by itself#a few years ago I became particularly interested in royal mistresses (mainly in monogamous settings) and the anomalous power and positions#that they occupied and adjusted/re-adjusted to#and in English history Alice is definitely the most interesting to me (the intersection of gender and class; 'inverting queenship'; etc)#historicwomendaily#alice perrers#14th century#english history#edward iii#my post#queue
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“When critics accuse Roxolana of manipulating and plotting against her harem rivals — Gulbahar, Grand Vizier Ibrahim Pasha, Prince Mustafa, and Grand Vizier Ahmed Pasha — they tend to overlook the fact that she had to fight for her own survival and the survival of her children in the very competitive world of the imperial harem, which was populated by hundreds of beautiful women and able men and ruled by the fratricide law. Hurrem was thus unjustly and harshly judged by her contemporaries for surviving and doing so brilliantly. Her rise was not only the result of Suleiman's love and benevolence, but also the result of her own intelligence, effort, and extraordinary political skill.”
Galina Yermolenko — Roxolana: “The Greatest Empresse of the East”
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in memory of and with gratitude to Rachael Lillis - first voice actor of Misty and Jessie among other characters in the Pokémon anime, who passed away at just 46
#pokemon#misty pokemon#jessie pokemon#pokemon anime#anipoke#pkmn#team rocket#kasumi#musashi#illustration#atompalace art#:( very sad news#she voiced these two in pokemon the first movie which is one of my biggest childhood faves#terrible that she should be leaving us her legacy so soon but we will celebrate it nonetheless 🩵💜
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Do you think FNAF movie Vanessa has the Vanny mask?
#myart#chloesimagination#comic#fnaf#five nights at freddy's#fnaf fanart#fnaf movie#fnaf vanessa#fnaf vanny#vanessa shelly#mike schmidt#I hope so bad for movie Vanny to be real BAHA#I genuinely think there are hints at Vanessa being Vanny in the movies#specifically how she’s physically unable to reveal against her father#it felt like there was a chip or something in her head preventing her#but similar to game vanny she’s able to override it if she tries hard enough#tbh seeing we’re officially getting more movies after the trilogy#Vanny is far more likely than ever#also just concrete proof I’ll be in the fnaf fandom forever LMAO#we’re in it for the long haul babes 💜
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NATTY ❖ STICKY @ KBS GLOBAL MUSIC FESTIVAL 241220
#natty#anatchaya suputtipong#kiss of life#kiof#cw flashing lights#cw eyestrain#kiofsource#kiofnet#femaleidolsedit#kpopstages#cheytermelon#vacantlook#tuserflora#userchoisoobin#(hi if it's ok! 💜)#rowan gifs#*stage#every time i look at natty she's so hot i lose braincells so you can blame that when the background looks messy in spots
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