Editing Alice Perrers (section)

=== Early life ===
Alice was born around 1348. No [[birth certificate|birth record]] remains, but it seems that Perrers was the [[surname]] of her first husband.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Ormrod |first=W. M. |date=2006 |title=Who Was Alice Perrers? |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25094322 |journal=The Chaucer Review |volume=40 |issue=3 |pages=219–229 |doi=10.1353/cr.2006.0005 |jstor=25094322 |issn=0009-2002|url-access=subscription }}</ref> Her ancestry has been the topic of much speculation, which is detailed below. Around 1360, at the age of 12, she married Janyn Perrers, a [[Bench jeweler|jeweler]] who died around 1364.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Ormrod |first1=W. M. |date=2008 |title=The trials of Alice Perrers |journal=Speculum |volume=83 |issue=2 |page=369 |doi=10.1017/S0038713400013361 |jstor=20466215 |s2cid=154399794}}</ref><ref>Laura Tompkins, 'Alice Perrers and the Goldsmiths' Mistery: New Evidence Concerning the Identity of the Mistress of Edward III', ''The English Historical Review'', 130:547 (December 2015), pp. 1361-1391 {{doi|10.1093/ehr/cev319}}</ref>
[[File:Philippa of Hainault-mini.gif|left|thumb|Queen Philippa, employer of Alice Perrers at her coronation in 1330]]