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Isabel of Beaumont. Blanche of Lancaster (25 March 1342 – 12 September 1368) was a member of the English royal House of Lancaster and the daughter of the kingdom's wealthiest and most powerful peer, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. She was the first wife of John of Gaunt, the mother of King Henry IV, and the grandmother of King Henry ...
Blanche of England. Blanche of England (spring 1392 – 22 May 1409), also known as Blanche of Lancaster, was a member of the House of Lancaster, the daughter of King Henry IV of England by his first wife Mary de Bohun .
Aug 8, 2015 · Blanche of Lancaster is one of those ladies of history more famous because of her children and the antics of her husband. Blanche’s life was pitifully short, but her legacy would see the unravelling of peace in the fifteenth century, and the decades of civil war called the Wars of the Roses. Blanche of Lancaster was born around 25th March ...
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Jun 2, 2018 · Blanche was born in either 1345 or 1347 to Henry of Grosmont, 1 st Duke of Lancaster (a great-grandson of King Henry III) and his wife, Isabel de Beaumont. Henry of Grosmont was a favourite of King Edward III and was only the second person in the realm to be given the title of Duke. Henry’s title did not pass on to any heirs after his death ...
Blanche of Lancaster, the younger daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his wife Isabel de Beaumont, was born at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, her date of birth is not known with certainty but is thought to have been 25 March 1345. Blanche was named after her paternal great-grandmother, Blanche of Artois, who was a ...
Nationality: Biography: Blanche of Lancaster was an English royal, a member of the House of Plantagenet. She was the daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, who at the time was the most powerful and wealthiest peer in the realm. Blanche would marry her third cousin, John of Gaunt, with the couple having three children: Philippa ...
May 23, 2017 · Blanche was born in March 1347 to Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster and Isabel de Beaumont. She was the youngest of two daughters, her elder sister, Maud, having been born in 1339. Given the gap between the two girls’ birth and the lack of subsequent children, including a male heir, it’s clear that the couple suffered from fertility ...
