Blanca de Navarra
Events
Date of Birth: about 1133.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 102).
Date of Death: 12 August 1156.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Martínez Diez (p. 17) and by Recuero Astray.
Place of Burial: Nájera, Cathedral Santa María de Real.
The place is given by Martínez Diez (p. 17). An image.
Relationships
Father: García VI “el Restaurador”, king of Navarre.
This relationship is given by Recuero Astray, by Leroy, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), and by Martínez Diez (p. 17).
Mother: Marguerite de l’Aigle.
This relationship is given by Recuero Astray, by Leroy, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), and by Thompson (p. 183).
Spouse: Sancho III “el Deseado”, king of Castile. Married 4 February in Carrión de los Condes.
This relationship is given by Recuero Astray, by Leroy, by Salazar y Acha (p. 102), and by Martínez Diez (p. 16).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
son (born 1153 or 1154, died between 1153 and 1155).
Alfonso VIII “el Noble” (11 November 1155 - 6 October 1214), king of Castile, married Eleanor of England.
García (born and died 24 June 1156).
References
Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).
Leroy, B. Navarra genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.
Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. Alfonso VIII, Rey de Castilla y Toledo (Burgos: Editorial la Olmeda, S.L., 1995).
Recuero Astray, José Manuel. “Blanca de Navarra” 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).
Thompson, Kathleen. "The Lords of Laigle: Ambition and Insecurity on the Borders of Normandy" in Anglo-Norman Studies XVIII (1996) pp. 177-199.
Online Biographies
Blanca de Navarra (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)