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Blanche
Spouse	Louis III, Elector Palatine m. 1402; wid. 1409
Issue
Rupert of the Palatinate
Father	Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England
Mother	Mary de Bohun
Born	Spring 1392 Peterborough Castle, Northamptonshire
Died	22 May 1409 (aged 17)
Burial	St Mary's at Neustadt, The Palatinate

Blanche (Spring 1392 – 22 May 1409), was a daughter of Henry IV Bolingbroke, King of England and full sister to Henry V of Monmouth, King of England. She was born at Peterborough Castle to the future Henry IV and his first wife Mary de Bohun.

Marriage and issue

She married Louis, son of King Rupert of Germany, on 6 July 1402 at Cologne Cathedral, Germany, and had issue:

stillborn child (1407)
Rupert (1409-26)

Blanche was made Lady of the Garter in 1408. She died in childbirth, and was buried in the church of St. Mary in Neustadt in the Palatinate.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Blanche of England

16. Edward II of England

8. Edward III of England

17. Isabella of France

4. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster

18. William I, Count of Hainaut

9. Philippa of Hainault

19. Joan of Valois

2. Henry IV of England

20. Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster

10. Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster

21. Maud Chaworth

5. Blanche of Lancaster

22. Henry de Beaumont

11. Isabel de Beaumont

23. Alice Comyn

1. Blanche of England

24. Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford

12. William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton

25. Elizabeth of Rhuddlan

6. Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford

26. Bartholomew de Badlesmere, 1st Baron Badlesmere

13. Elizabeth de Badlesmere

27. Margaret de Clare

3. Mary de Bohun

28. Edmund FitzAlan, 9th Earl of Arundel

14. Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel

29. Alice de Warenne

7. Joan FitzAlan

30. Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (= 20)

15. Eleanor of Lancaster

31. Maud Chaworth (= 21)

Categories: English and British princesses | 1392 births | 1409 deaths

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