Battle of Pontvallain Edward III's mistress Alice Perrers. Knolles' campaign has been estimated to have cost Edward III somewhere in the region of £66,667 (), based on his known requests for loans. But the chevauchée that preceded the battle yielded, it has been said, "plunder but little military benefit," while Maurice Keen noted that even though Knolles had reached the gates of Paris, "he had little to show for it when he reached Brittany." and illustrated how much the Hundred Years' War had changed in character by now. According to Christopher Allmand, "the days of Crécy and Poitiers were over." Pontvallain "destroyed the
English and British royal mistress who had also been courted by Edward's brother and an Austrian prince, Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick, Agnes Keyser, and Alice Keppel, who of all his mistresses had the most political power and sat at his deathbed in 1910. He fathered surprisingly few royal bastards considering their number and the fecundity he enjoyed with his wife Alexandra of Denmark. Edward VIII is the only member of the currently reigning House of Windsor to have kept a mistress. Among them were mostly married women like Freda Dudley Ward and Lady Thelma Furness. He first met Wallis Simpson in San Diego, California