Elisabeth Maria Cornelia van Houts, Lady Baker FBA FRHistS (born 1952) is a Dutch-born British historian specializing in medieval European history.
Van Houts was born in Zaandam in the Netherlands.
She married historian Sir John Baker in 2010.
[2] Van Houts was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1983.
[2] She has been an expert panellist on the radio programme In Our Time for the 12th-century Renaissance[3] and the Domesday Book.