Kyteler was born in Kyteler's House, County Kilkenny, Ireland, the only child of a Flemish family of merchants settled in Ireland since the mid-late thirteenth century.

She was married four times, to William Outlaw, Adam le Blund, Richard de Valle and Sir John le Poer.

First husband c.1280–85 – William Outlaw, merchant and moneylender of Kilkenny. Son: William Outlaw, was mayor of Kilkenny in 1305. Daughter: Rose.

Second husband (by 1302) Adam Blund of Callan, moneylender.

Third husband (by 1309) Richard Valle, a landholder of County Tipperary. After Valle's death 1316. Alice took proceedings against her stepson, Richard, for the recovery of her widow's dower.

Fourth husband (c.1316–24) John Poer.

In 1302, Kyteler and her second husband were briefly accused of killing her first husband. She incurred local resentment because of her vast wealth and involvement in moneylending. When her fourth husband, John le Poer, fell ill in 1324, he expressed the suspicion that he was being poisoned. After his death, the children of le Poer and of her previous three husbands accused her of using poison and sorcery against their fathers and of favouring her first-born son, William Outlaw.

In addition, she and her followers were accused of:

•denying the faith of Christ and the Church

•cutting up animals to sacrifice to demons at crossroads

•holding secret nocturnal meetings in churches to perform black magic and undermine/overpower the church

•using sorcery and potions to control Christians

•possession of a familiar, Robin Artison, a lesser demon of Satan

•murder of husbands

•Alice however didn’t burn. She escaped the flames, leaving her maid servant Petronella de Meath to become the first Irish victim of the witch hunts.

•Alice and her son William escaped to England.

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