Blanche of Burgundy
Blanche of Burgundy | |
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Navarre | |
Tenure | 3 January 1322 – 19 May 1322 |
Born | c. 1296 |
Died | c. 1326 |
Spouse | |
Ivrea | |
Father | Otto IV, Count of Burgundy |
Mother | Mahaut, Countess of Artois |
Blanche of Burgundy (c. 1296 – c. 1326) was
Early life
Blanche was the younger daughter of
Adultery accusations
In 1313, Blanche's sister-in-law and brother-in-law,
Trial and imprisonment
Acting quickly, King Philip ordered the arrest of all his daughters-in-law and the knights. Following torture, the d'Aunays confessed to adultery and admitted that it had lasted three years.
Queenship and death
On Philip V's death on 3 January 1322, Blanche's husband, Charles, inherited the crown.[10] Blanche thus became queen of France and Navarre, but she remained imprisoned and not crowned; at Charles' request, Pope John XXII declared their marriage null and void on 19 May 1322.[9] Both Charles and Blanche received permission to remarry.[9] Both of her children died in infancy, Philip by the end of March 1322[3] and Joan on 17 May 1321.[citation needed]
Though she was replaced immediately by
In fiction
Blanche is a character in
Family tree
Philip IV of France | Otto | Mahaut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Edward II | Isabella | Margaret | Louis X of France | Philip V of France | Joan | Charles IV of France | Blanche | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
References
- ^ a b Brown 2009, p. 223.
- ^ Brown 2000, p. 133.
- ^ a b c Brown 2007, p. 165.
- ^ a b Warner 2016, p. 85.
- ^ Warner 2016, p. 84-85.
- ^ Warner 2016, p. 84.
- ^ Gaude-Ferragu 2016, p. 37.
- ^ Bradbury 2007, p. 277.
- ^ a b c d e Brown 2009, p. 224.
- ^ Georgiou 2018, p. 40.
- ^ Brown 2009, p. 225.
- ^ "Official website: Les Rois maudits (2005 miniseries)" (in French). 2005. Archived from the original on 15 August 2009. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
- ^ "Les Rois maudits: Casting de la saison 1" (in French). AlloCiné. 2005. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
Sources
- Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians: The History of a Dynasty. Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0826435149.
- Brown, Elizabeth A.R. (2000). "The King's Conundrum: Endowing Queens and Loyal Servants, Ensuring Salvation, and Protecting the Patrimony in Fourteenth-Century France". In Burrow, J.A.; Wei, Ian P. (eds.). Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages. ISBN 0851157793.
- Brown, Elizabeth A.R. (2007). ""Laver de ses pechiés une pecheresse royale": Psalm Collects in an Early Fourteenth-Century Devotional Book". In Doss-Quinby, Eglal; Krueger, Roberta L.; Burns, E. Jane (eds.). Cultural Performances in Medieval France: Essays in Honor of Nancy Freeman Regalado. DS Brewer. pp. 163–180. ISBN 978-1843841128.
- Brown, Elizabeth A.R. (2009). "Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault". In Smith, Katherine Allen; Wells, Scott (eds.). Negotiating community and difference in medieval Europe: gender, power, patronage, and the authority of religion in Latin Christendom. BRILL.
- Gaude-Ferragu, Murielle (2016). Queenship in Medieval France, 1300-1500. Translated by Krieger, Angela. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Georgiou, Constantinos (2018). Preaching the Crusades to the Eastern Mediterranean: Propaganda, Liturgy and Diplomacy, 1305–1352. Routledge.
- Warner, Kathryn (2016). Isabella of France: The Rebel Queen. Amberley Publishing.