Princess Blanche Artois FRANCE

   Other names for Blanche were FRANCE Princess, NAVARRE Queen and CHAMPAGNE Countess.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ9-D5. User ID: 4727461.

   General Notes:

Princess of FRANCE, Queen of NAVARRE, Countess of CHAMPAGNE.

BOOKS
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart,Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Blanche, Daughter of Robert I Count of Artois, Widow of Henry I King of Navarre, Mar =2 (2) Edmund Earl of Leicester and Lancaster, Died 1302.

Political History of England 1216-1377, Vol III, T F Tout, AMS Press, 1905, p144: "...[1276] Earlier than this, [Edward I] made himself the champion of Blanche of Artois, the widow of Henry III of Navarre and Champagne. He wished that Joan, their only child, should bring her father's lands to one of his own sons, and, though disappointed in this ambition, he managed to marry his younger brother, Edmund of Lancaster, to Blanche..."
p246 "...[1311] Nor were Earl Thomas [of Lancaster]'s personal connexions less magnificent than his feudaldignities. As a grandson of Henry III, he was the first cousin of the king. Through his mother, Blanche of Artois, Queen of Navarre and Countess of Champagne, he was the grandson of the valiant Robert of Artois, who had fallen at Mansura, and the great-grandson of Louis VIII of France. His half-sister, Joan of Champagne, was the wife of Philip the Fair, so that the French king was his brother-in-law as well as his cousin, and Isabella, Edward's consort, was his niece..."

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, Antonia Fraser, 1975, Alfred Knopf, p71: "Blanche of Artois, mar (2) Edmund Crounchback, died 1302..."

ANCESTRY.COM
World Ancestral Chart No. 17779 James Carl Romans: Born Navarre.

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.10 8XJ9-D5 Blance FRANCE Princess Mar Edmund ENGLAND Prince Bef 29 Oct 1275, 8WKP- 70 Mar Bef 3 Feb 1275.

   Marriage Information:

Blanche married King Henry NAVARRE, I, son of King Thibaut NAVARRE, I. (King Henry NAVARRE, I died before 3 Feb 1274-1275.)

   Marriage Information:

Blanche also married Earl Edmund LANCASTER, son of King Henry ENGLAND, III and Queen Eleanor Provence ENGLAND, before 3 Feb 1275 in Paris, Seine, France. (Earl Edmund LANCASTER was born on 16 Jan 1244-1245 in London, Middlesex, England, died on 5 Jun 1296 in Bayonne, Atlantiques, Pyrenees, France and was buried in Abbey, Westminster, London, Middlesex, England.)