Alice Davy
Alice Davy was a servant at the Tudor court in England.
Career[edit]
She was the nurse of Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York at Greenwich Palace.
Henry VII requested his treasurer to pay "Alice Davi", and the two women who rocked the Princess' cradle, Anne Mayland and Margaret Troughton, and the day-woman, Alice Bywymble, on 29 June 1490.[1]
Alice Davy subsequently joined the household of Catherine of Aragon.[2]
In January 1519, Henry VIII awarded her £10 yearly in recognition of her services as Margaret's nurse and as a gentlewoman to Catherine of Aragon.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Henry Ellis, Original Letters, series " vol. 1 (London, 1827), pp. 171-2.
- ^ Beer, Michelle (2018). Queenship at the Renaissance Courts of Britain. Woodbridge: The Boydell Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780861933488.
- ^ Maria Hayward, Dress at the Court of King Henry VIII (Maney, 2007), p. 305: J. S. Brewer, Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, 3:1 (London, 1867), p. 2 no. 8.