Blanche (Capet) de France (abt. 1278 - 1305)

Born about 1278 in Fontainebleau, Île-de-France, France [uncertain]

Ancestors

Died 19 Mar 1305 at about age 27 in Wien, Herzogtum Österreich [uncertain]

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Biography

Blanche de France était la fille de Philippe III dit le Hardi, roi de France, et de sa deuxième femme Marie de Brabant^[1].

Elle fut fiancée en 1290 à Jean de Namur, fils de Guy de Dampierre, comte de Flandres; puis à Jean de Hainaut, fils du comte de Hainaut Jean II, en 1296^[1].

Elle épousa en 1300 Rodolphe III, duc d'Autriche, puis roi de Bohême^[1]. Elle mourut à Vienne en Autriche le 14 mars 1305 et fut enterrée en l'édglise des Cordeliers^[1].

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Blanche of France (1282?1305)

Blanche of France (c.1282- March 1, 1305) was born in Paris, her parents were Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant[1].

[edit] Family

Blanche was a half sister of Philip IV of France and Charles of Valois, her sister Margaret and Edward I were the parents of Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent. Blanche was the great great aunte of Richard II of England. Her brother was Louis d'Évreux who was the father of Philip III of Navarre. Philip's daughter was Maria, Queen of Aragon.[2]

[edit] Life

Three years after the death of Edward I of England's beloved first wife, Eleanor of Castile, at the age of 49 in 1290, Edward I was still grieving. But news got to him of the beauty of Blanche. Edward decided that he would marry Blanche at any cost and sent out emissaries to negotiate the marriage with her half-brother, King Philip IV. Philip agreed to give Blanche to Edward on the following conditions:

1. A truce was concluded between the two countries.

2. Edward gave up the province of Gascony.

Edward, surprisingly, agreed and sent his brother Edmund Crouchback, Earl of Lancaster, to fetch the new bride. Edward had been deceived, for Blanche was to be married. Instead Philip offered her younger sister Margaret, a young girl of 11, to marry Edward (then 55). Upon hearing this, Edward declared war on France, refusing to marry Margaret. After five years, a truce was agreed, under the terms of which Edward would marry Margaret, would regain the key city of Guienne, and receive £15,000 owed to Marguerite.

Instead of Edward I, on May 25, 1300 she married Rudolph I of Habsburg, Duke of Austria and son of King Albert I of Germany. Blanche bore him a stillborn daughter in 1304 and after this she had two miscarriages. The marriage was very unhappy and Blanche died after her second miscarriage during March 1305 at Vienna. Rudolph was married to Elisabeth Richeza of Poland the next year, they had no children and Rudolph died in 1307 after being King of Bohemia foronly one year.

Blanche is buried at the Minoritenkirche, Vienna.

may have died in 1306

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, .... Tome 1, par le Père Anselme de Sainte-Marie, continuée par Honoré du Fourny, la compagnie des libraires (Paris) 1726-1733. Page: 88 http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76026j/f103.image, consulté le 30 septembre 2017

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