Pass auf: Alter bei der Heirat (20. Mai 1308) war unter 16 Jahre (13).
Sie ist verheiratet mit Charles IV 'le Bel' King of France.
Sie haben geheiratet am 20. Mai 1308 in Corbeil, Corbeil-Essonnes, Essonne, France, sie war 13 Jahre alt.
Ehevertrag geschlossen April 1307.
Das Paar ist geschieden.
Blanche, along with her sister Jeanne (wife of Philip V), and Charles IV's sister Isabel (wife of Edward II of "Braveheart" fame), had been having affairs with, among many other people, two brothers Philip & Gautier d'Aulnay (who suffered a hideous death, being publicly flayed, castrated and beheaded). Blanche was locked up at Chateau Gaillard, had given birth to a child by one of her jailers, and, after her annulment, was sent to a convent in Maubuisson. [Leo van de Pas]
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Blanche of Burgundy
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Blanche of Burgundy (French: Blanche de Bourgogne) (c. 1296 - April 29, 1326) was queen of France for a few months in 1322 due to her marriage to the future king Charles IV.
She was the daughter of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy and Mahaut, Countess of Artois. She married Charles IV, third son of Philip IV at Corbeil on May 20, 1308.
Accusing her of adultery, her father-in-law threw Blanche and her supposed accomplices - her sister-in-law Margaret and sister Jeanne - into the fortress of Château-Gaillard at the beginning of 1314.
She was still there in 1322 during the crowning of her husband Charles IV. The king refused to free her. Their marriage was annulled by Pope John XXII on May 19, 1322.
Blanche saw the end of her days at Maubuisson Abbey, near Pontoise, in April 1326.
Preceded by
Jeanne II, Countess of Burgundy Queen consort of Navarre
1322 Succeeded by
Marie de Luxembourg
Queen of France
1322
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Categories: 1296 births | 1326 deaths | French queens consort | Navarrese royal consorts | Women of medieval France
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