Blanche of Burgundy
Noble person
1296 – 1326
Who was Blanche of Burgundy?
Blanche of Burgundy was Queen consort of France and Navarre for a few months in 1322 through to her marriage to King Charles the Fair. The daughter of Count Otto IV of Burgundy and Countess Mahaut of Artois, she was led to a disastrous marriage by her mother's ambition. Eight years before her husband's accession to the thrones, Blanche was arrested and found guilty of adultery with a Norman knight. Her sister-in-law, Margaret of Burgundy, suffered the same fate, while her sister and another sister-in-law Joan was acquitted. Blanche was imprisoned until she became queen, when she was moved to the coast of Normandy. The date and place of her death are unknown; the mere fact that she died was simply mentioned on the occasion of her husband's third marriage in April 1326.
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- 1296
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- Died
- Apr 29, 1326
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on July 23, 2013
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