Blanca de Castilla

Events

Date of Birth: 4 March 1188.

Place of Birth: Palencia.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 251).

Date of Death: 26 November 1252.

Place of Death: Paris.

The date is given by Sivéry (p. 254), who notes that different sources given slightly different dates.

Date of Burial: 29 November 1252.

Place of Burial: the abbey of Maubuisson.

The date and place are given by Sivéry (p. 254).

Relationships

Father: Alfonso VIII “el Noble”, king of Castile.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:81), by Sivéry (p. 10), by González (1:204), and by Martínez Díez (1993, p. 14; 1995, p. 52).

Mother: Eleanor of England.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:81), by Sivéry (p. 10), by González (1:204), and by Martínez Díez (1993, p. 14; 1995, p. 52).

Spouse: Louis VIII “le Lion”, king of France. Married 23 May 1200 at Portmort.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:81), by Sivéry (p. 9), by Shadis (p. 140), and by Martínez Díez (1993, p. 14; 1995, p. 52).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

a daughter (1205 - died young).

Philippe (7 September 1209 - 1218).

Alphonse (26 January 1213 - died young).

Jean (26 January 1213 - died young).

Louis IX (25 April 1214 - 25 August 1270), king of France, married Marguerite de Provence. Louis was canonized as Saint Louis.

Robert (September 1216 - 9 February 1250), count of Artois, married Mathilde de Brabant.

Alphonse (11 November 1220 - 21 August 1271), count of Toulouse, married Jeanne de Toulouse.

Jean (died 1232).

Philippe dit Dagobert (20 February 1222 - 1232).

Isabelle (March 1224 - 23 February 1270).

Étienne (1225 - 1227).

Charles I (about 21 March 1227 - 7 January 1285), king of Sicily.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

González, Julio. El reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII (Madrid, 1960).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. Fernando III (Palencia:1993).

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. Alfonso VIII, Rey de Castilla y Toledo (Burgos: Editorial la Olmeda, S.L., 1995).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. "Blanca de Castilla," in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Shadis, Miriam. “Blanche of Castille and Facinger’s ‘Medieval Queenship’: Reassessing the Argument” in Capetian Women (ed. Kathleen Nolan) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003).

Sivéry, Gérard. Blanche de Castille (Paris: Fayard, 1990).

Online Biographies

Blanca de Castilla (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)

Blanche of Castile (Wikipedia)