Edward III, His Queen & His Mistress
Gone Medieval
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Are You a Queen or a Temptress?
It strikes me that both of these women kind of performed very similar roles. They owned land, they gained incomes, they secured favours for their friends and had influence over the King. Why do you think it is that Philippa is generally seen as good for doing that, and Alice has traditionally at least been seen as bad for doing almost exactly the same thing? A lot of it comes down to contemporary suspicions of women that then get written down in the record and then passed on to us without people necessarily interrogating the people who are writing those sources. It's just very clear that she's doing everything for her own gain, rather than for the good of the kingdom,. And this kind of
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