Genealogical Record: Blanche d'Artois

Self Parents Grandparents GGParents GGGParents
Blanche d'Artois
Queen of Navarre

*1247? Arras, Pas-de-Calais FRA
+1302 05 02 Paris FRA

(DRGD) Married first to King Henry I (the Fat) of Navarre. Interred at Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London GBR

11000

Robert Capet
Count of Artois

*1216 09

11259

Louis VIII
King of France 1223-1226

*1187 Paris FRA
+1226

11261 <1346:30

Philippe II Auguste
-1223
11263
Louis VII
11137 <3266:32 >5:2
Adela de Champagne
11138 <3266:32 >1:1
Isabelle de Hainaut
11264
Baldwin IV
11265
Margaret
11266
Blanche of Castille
Lady

11262 <1346:30

Alfonso III
11131 <2281:31
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Eleanor
1162-1214
11132 <2281:31
Henry II Curtmantle FitzEmpress
11077 <8078:33 >119:54
Eleanor
11078 <8078:33 >3:2
Matilde de Brabant

11260

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SpouseChildrenChildren-in-LawGrandchildren
Edmund (Crouchback) Leicester Plantagenet
Prince of England, Earl of Leicester, King of Sicily and Apulia, 1st Earl of Lancaster

*1245 01 16 London ENG
+1295 Bayonne FRA

(DRGD) 1253: was invested King of Sicily and Apulia by the Pope. Was also Earl of Chester before the title was transferred to his elder brother Edward. Received the Earldom of Leicester following the forfeiture of Simon de Montfort, also Stewardship of England and the lands of Nicolas de Segrave. Was married first to Aveline de Forz, then to Blanche of Artois.

(Encyclopedia.com) 1254: was granted title of King of Sicily [and Apulia] by the Pope, on the understanding that his father would finance its conquest from the Holy Roman Empire. 1258: the title was withdrawn when English barons refused to contribute financially. 1267: founded the House of Lancaster when named the first Earl. 1271: earned nickname "Crouchback" (crossed back) by going on crusade to Palestine.

10999 <151:57


m. Paris FRA
Henry (Tortcol) Plantagenet
3rd Earl of Lancaster, Earl of Leicester, Lord of Beaumont and Nogent.

*1281 Grismond Castle, Monmouthshire ENG
+1345 09 22 Leicester ENG

(DRGD) Helped overturn the power of the Spencers and depose King Edward II. Guardian of King Edward III. Captain-General of the King's forces in the Marches of Scotland. Interred at Newark Abbey, Leicester GBR.

10991

Maud de Chaworth
1280/1282-

10992 <36:7

Joan Plantagenet

10986 >638:25

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