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Louis VIII King of France
(1187-1226)
Blanche of Castile
(1188-1252)
Henry II Duke of Brabant
(1207-1248)
Marie of Hohenstaufen
(1201-1235)
Robert I "the Good" Count of Artois
(1216-1250)
Matilda of Brabant
(1224-1288)
Blanche of Artois
(Between 1245/1250-1302)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Henry III Count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre

2. Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester

Blanche of Artois 1

  • Born: Between 1245 and 1250
  • Marriage (1): Henry III Count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre in 1259
  • Marriage (2): Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester on 29 Oct 1276 in Paris, (Île-de-France), France
  • Died: 2 May 1302, Paris, (Île-de-France), France

   Another name for Blanche was Blanche de Navarre.

  Research Notes:

Widow of Henry I of Navarre. Second wife of Henry III. Second wife of Edmund "Crouchback."

Source: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr, ed. by William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, Baltimore, 2008, Line 45-30

Wikipedia


Blanche married Henry III Count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre in 1259. (Henry III Count of Champagne and Brie, King of Navarre died on 22 Jul 1274.)


Blanche next married Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, son of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 29 Oct 1276 in Paris, (Île-de-France), France. (Edmund "Crouchback" 1st Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester was born on 16 Jan 1245 in London, England, died on 5 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, (Pyrènées-Atlantiques), Aquitaine, France and was buried on 15 Jul 1296 in Westminster Abbey, London, Midlesex, England.)


  Marriage Notes:

Wikipedia has m. 3 Feb 1276.
Ancestral Roots, line 17-28, has m. bet. 18 Dec. 1275 and 19 Jan 1275/1276

Sources

1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 45-30.

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