List of English royal mistresses

This page contains a list of notable English royal mistresses.

Contents 1 Henry I 2 Henry II 3 Edward III 4 Edward IV 5 Henry VIII 6 Charles II 7 James II 8 William III 9 See also

Henry I

• Edith
• Gieva de Tracy
• Ansfride (b. about 1070)
• Lady Sybilla Corbet of Alcester (1077 – after 1157)
• Edith Fitzforne
• Princess Nest (c. 1073 – after 1136)
• Isabel de Beaumont (c. 1102 - c. 1172)

Henry II

• Rosamund Clifford (before 1150 – c. 1176)

Edward III

• Alice Perrers (c. 1348 – 1400)

Edward IV

• Jane Shore

Henry VIII

• Bessie Blount (c. 1502 – 1540), mother of his only acknowledged illegitimate child, Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset
• Mary Boleyn (c. 1499 – 1543), sister of his second wife, Anne and allegedly the mother of his two children, Henry Carey, 1st Baron Hunsdon and Catherine Carey, Lady Knollys
• Mary Shelton (c.1518-c.1560), mistress during his marriage to her cousin, Anne Boleyn
• Anne Stafford, Countess of Huntingdon (after 1483 – 1544), who was prosecuted for adultery in 1527
• Jane Poppincourt
• Joan Dingley
• Mary Berkeley
• Agness Blewitt

Charles II

• Lucy Walter (c. 1630 – 1658)
• Barbara Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (1640 – 1709)
• Louise de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth (1649 – 1734)
• Hortense Mancini (1646 – 1699)
• Nell Gwyn (c. 1650 – 1687)
• Moll Davis
• Winifred Wells
• Jane Roberts
• Mrs. Knight
• Mary Bagot, widow of Charles Berkeley, 1st Earl of Falmouth
• Elizabeth Killigrew, Viscountess Shannon
• Elizabeth, countess of Kildare
• Catherine Pegge (b. 1635)

James II

• Arabella Churchill (1648 – 1730)

William III

• Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess of Orkney (c. 1657 – 1733)

See also

• List of Scottish royal mistresses