Mayflower PAF
Dau. of Edward I and Eleanor. The daughter who left the court at the youngest age. She was sent to Amesbury, at her grandmother's insistence, at the age of 5, and became a nun in 1285. Her religious profession did not prevent her from frequently returning to court, with the largest cortege of any of the princesses. Her extravagance, and her gambling debts, suggest that she did not take her vocation very seriously, and this is supported by the later claim of Earl Warenne to have had an affair with her, presumably in the course of one of her visits to court. [Edward I, p. 126]
Mary Plantagenet |