Draft:Alice Tankerville
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Comment: I'd like to see a couple more sources from academic books/journals. qcne (talk) 14:20, 22 November 2024 (UTC)
Alice Tankerville (also Alice Tankerfelde or Alice Wolfe) was an English thief, pirate, and possibly a prostitute, hanged in chains in 1534. She is the only woman known to have escaped the Tower of London.[1] In October 1533, she and her common-law husband, John Wolfe, were implicated in the theft of 366 gold crowns from a ship at the Steelyard of the Hanseatic League in London,[2] intended for the Royal Treasury. [3]After months of fruitless investigations, John Wolfe was arrested in Summer 1532 and confined to the Tower, but was released after six months due to insufficient evidence.
In 1533, Tankerville, Wolfe, and several accomplices, among them two Yeomen, were connected to the murder of two Italian merchants, Jerome de George and Charles Benche, on the Thames on July, 16 1533. Alice had spent the afternoon with the Italians at Durham Rents at the Strand, before luring them into a wherry boat. In the middle of the Thames, they were robbed and murdered by Wolfe and two Yeomen who had disguised themselves as watermen.[4] The group was also linked to the burglary of the Florentine merchant John Gerald's house near St. Benet Gracechurch, which was also the home of the two murdered Italians.
Tankerville and her husband applied for sanctuary status in Westminster.[5] They were arrested and confined to the Tower, after Parliament had issued an act of attainder, upon request of the King's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Cromwell.[6] After bedazzling her jailers, Tankerville managed to briefly escape the Tower with the help of Yeoman Warder John Bawde on March 23, 1534. She was rearrested the same night and returned to her cell.[7] She was hanged in chains together with her husband at the pirate gallows in Wapping on March 31, 1534.[8]
In popular culture
De Chastelaine, Alexander (2025), Alice Tankerville Pirates on the River Thames. Barnes & Noble, ISBN 9798339876014
References
- ^ "Exploring London". Exploring London. 20 March 2024. Retrieved 22 November 2024.
- ^ Hoare, Callum (11 June 2021). "Royal treasure: Henry VIII's 'missing' £1million gold mystery unravelled in horror account". Express. Retrieved 11 November 2024.
- ^ Grey, Adam. "The Tale Of Alice Tankerville And The Theft Of The 366 Golden Crowns". Justhistoryposts.
- ^ Hall, Edward (1809). Hall's Chronicle (1 ed.). London. p. 815.
- ^ McSheffrey, Shannon (May 2020). "Murder on the Thames: John and Alice Wolfe". Sanctuary Seekers in England, 1394-1557.
- ^ Eyre & Strahan (1810). The Statutes of the Realm Vol. III. London. pp. 490–91.
- ^ "Historic Royal Palaces - Biographies and key facts about prisoners of the Tower. Power Point presentation".
- ^ "Journal of the House of Lords". Journal of the House of Lords (London: HMSO, 1767–1830). 1: 78–79.
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