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Elizabeth Lucy
Elizabeth Lucy (fl c. 1460s) was the long-standing mistress of King Edward IV of England, and probable mother of several children by him, including Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle.
==Accounts of her life==
Lucy's family background is not known. The Victorian historian James Gairdner refers to her as a "courtesan of obscure birth".〔James Gairdner, ''History of the life and reign of Richard the Third, to which is added the story of Perkin Warbeck: from original documents'', Cambridge University Press, 1898, p.92.〕 However, Thomas More calls her "dame" Elizabeth, portraying her as a naive girl seduced by Edward. He states that Edward's mother, enraged by her son's marriage to Elizabeth Woodville after he had already made Lucy pregnant, had stated that Lucy was legally engaged to him ("precontracted"). Lucy denied they had been officially engaged but said, "his grace spoke such loving words to her, she verily hoped he would have married her, and if it had not been for such kind words she would never have shown such kindness to let him to kindly get her with child."〔Richard Marius, ''Thomas More: A Biography'', Harvard University Press, 1999, p.107.〕 More goes on to assert that Richard III later revived the claim in order to declare Edward's children by Elizabeth illegitimate, and thereby take the throne for himself. However, it was later discovered that Richard had in fact named Eleanor Butler as Edward's precontracted wife. Butler was already dead, and could not therefore be questioned about the claim.
The 17th Century historian George Buck portrays Lucy differently from More, depicting her as a sexually uninhibited young woman. Edward "loved her well, and she was his witty concubine, for she was a wanton wench and willing and ready to yield herself to the king and his pleasures without conditions."〔Charles Carlton, ''Royal Mistresses'', Taylor & Francis, 1990, p.24.〕
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