Blanche d'Artois

• Preferred Name: Blanche d'Artois^[1]
  
• Alternate Name: De Navarre
  
• Alternate Name: Blanche of Artois Navarre Queen Consort Regent Countess of Lancaster
  
• Alternate Name: Blanche d'Artois
  
• Alternate Name: Blanche of Artsis, Queen of Navarre
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: 16 JAN 1244 in Artois, France at LATI: N9.1285 LONG: E0.4669
  
• Death: 2 MAY 1302 in Paris, Île-de-France, France at LATI: N8.8667 LONG: E0.3333
  
• Burial: 1302 in Paris, Île-de-France, France at LATI: N8.8667 LONG: E0.3333
  
• Occupation: Queen of Navarre, Countess of Champagne and Brie
  
• FSID: L41W-5SK
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Blanche of Artois (Basque: Zuria Artoiskoa) (c. 1248-2 May 1302) was a member of the Capetian House of Artois who, as queen dowager, held regency over the Kingdom of Navarre and the County of Champagne. She was first married to Henry I of Navarre, after whose death she became regent in the name of their infant daughter, Joan I. She passed on the regency of Navarre to Philip III of France, her cousin and her daughter's prospective father-in-law, but retained the administration of Champagne. She later shared the government of Champagne with her second husband, the English prince Edmund Crouchback, until her daughter reached the age of majority.
  
  «b»Queenship«/b»
  Blanche was the elder child and only daughter of Robert I, Count of Artois, and Matilda of Brabant. A fraternal niece of King Louis IX of France, Blanche was probably born in 1248. By February 1269, having received a papal dispensation, she was married to King Theobald II of Navarre's brother Henry. The ceremony took place in Melun near Paris. Her brother-in-law, in turn, was married to her cousin, Isabella of France. Henry was governing his brother's realm when King Theobald and Queen Isabella left to join the Seventh Crusade. When the King died in December 1270, followed by his widow within a few months, Blanche's husband became King of Navarre and Count of Champagne.
  
  King Henry and Queen Blanche were a young couple with a son, Theobald, and the future of the House of Blois seemed bright. In 1273, however, they lost their son in an accident; the young Theobald was dropped by his nurse over the castle battlements. A daughter named Joan, born the same year, remained the royal couple's only child and was recognized as heir presumptive by the King and the Estates. The following year, on 22 July, King Henry himself died. The death of two kings within five years and accession of an infant queen, the first woman to rule Navarre and Champagne alike, triggered a political crisis.
  
  «b»Regency«/b»
  Now queen dowager, Blanche became regent for her daughter. Her regency in Champagne was preceded by several long regencies of widowed mothers, but this was the first regency for a female ruler. The neighbouring kingdoms of Castile and Aragon moved to exploit the precarious situation. Both Alfonso X of Castile and Peter III of Aragon wanted to secure Navarre for their respective houses either by marriage with Joan or by force. While Peter contemplated a marriage with a cousin of Joan, Alfonso moved his army to Navarre and started besieging Viana. The citizens loyally defended the city, for which Queen Blanche thanked them by granting special privileges.
  
  Blanche remained in Pamplona at least until 14 April, but then fled the kingdom, taking Joan with her, on the pretext of visiting her daughter's fiefs in the north of France. In reality, she sought protection from her cousin, King Philip III of France. In November, she paid homage to him for her daughter's French possessions. The almost immediate departure of both the monarch and the regent only complicated the situation in Navarre. In May 1275, Queen Blanche signed the Treaty of Orléans, by which she promised Joan's hand in marriage to one of the older two sons of the King of France, either Louis or Philip. The elder died within a year, and Philip was left as both heir to the French throne and Joan's bridegroom. Blanche administered Joan's territories from Paris, appointing governors for Navarre. Later this role was taken over by Joan's prospective father-in-law, while Blanche retained the administration of Champagne and Brie.
  
  «b»English marriage«/b»
  Between 28 July and 29 October 1276, in Paris, Blanche became the second wife of Edmund Crouchback, brother of King Edward I of England. The marriage was orchestrated by the dowager queen of France Margaret of Provence, who wished to secure a wealthy bride for her nephew. There are also reports, however, that the two married out of mutual attraction. Edmund joined Blanche in administering Champagne and Brie. Edmund and Blanche had four children: Mary, who died young, Thomas, Henry and John.
  
  When Joan became old enough to marry and take full control of her inheritance, in 1284, Blanche and Edmund had to give up the counties. They were compensated by Blanche's dower, a hefty sum of money and the right to use the palace of the Navarrese kings in Paris. The following year, Philip III died and was succeeded by Blanche's son-in-law, Philip IV.
  
  When hostilities broke out between England and France in 1293, Edmund and Blanche left Paris and moved to England. They returned to France in 1296 but resided in King Edward's continental possessions, where Edmund served as lieutenant of Gascony. Blanche was widowed again in June the same year when Edmund died during the siege of Bordeaux. She returned to her brother-in-law's court in November but did not stay in England for long. She received her dower, consisting of one third of all of Edmund's lands and all his rights in the earldom of Ferrers, and in 1298 she was back in France. She founded a Franciscan nunnery in Nogent-l'Artaud in 1299 and declared her wish to be buried there rather than with her second husband in London or with her first husband in Provins. Blanche died in Paris on 2 May 1302.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NORTHERN%20FRANCE.htm#BlancheArtoisdied1302 as of 1/23/2016
  
  BLANCHE d'Artois (1248-Paris 2 May 1302, probably bur Minoresses Convent, Aldgate, London). The
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/ENGLISHNOBILITYMEDIEVAL3.htm#MaudChaworthdied1322 as of 6/17/2016
  
  MAUD Chaworth (2 Feb 1282-before 3 Dec 1322, bur Mottisfont Priory). Inquisitions after a
  
  Memorial
  Daughter of Sir Patrick Chaworth 1254-1283 (I will not link to his unknown burial memorial) and Isabella de Beauchamp 1255-1306. Granddaughter of Patrick de Chaworth and Hawise de Londres, William de
  
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  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === Blanche of Artois ===
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  Blanche of Artois
  Queen consort of Navarre
  Tenure 4 December 1270 – 22 July 1274
  Spouse Henry I of Navarre
  m. 1269; dec. 1274
  Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
  m. 1276; d. 1296
  Issue
  Joan I of Navarre
  Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster
  Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
  House House of Artois (by birth)
  House of Champagne (by first marriage)
  House of Plantagenet (by second marriage)
  Father Robert I of Artois
  Mother Matilda of Brabant
  Born 1248
  Died 2 May 1302 (aged c. 53-54)
  
  Blanche of Artois (1248 – 2 May 1302) was the queen regent of Navarre from 1274 to 1284, and later became Countess of Lancaster by marrying into the English royal family. She was the daughter of Count Robert I of Artois and Matilda of Brabant. From 1274 to 1284 she ruled Navarre and the counties of Brie, Champagne, Troyes et Meaux for her daughter, Joan I of Navarre (ruled 1274–1305).
  Contents
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  * 1 Family
  * 2 First marriage
  * 3 Second marriage
  * 4 Ancestry
  
  [edit] Family
  
  Blanche's paternal grandparents were Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. Her maternal grandparents were Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen, daughter of Philip of Swabia.
  [edit] First marriage
  
  Blanche married Henry I of Navarre (ruled 1270–1274) who died in 1274. They had two children:
  
  * Theobald - d. 1270 fell from a battlement at the castle of Estella
  * Joan I of Navarre, who became Queen regnant of Navarre and Queen consort of France
  
  [edit] Second marriage
  
  After Henry's death, Blanche married Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296), in 1276, an English prince who was a younger son of Henry III and Eleanor of Provence. Edmund was also a widower, his young wife having died the same year as Blanche's husband.
  
  Edmund and Blanche had four children:
  
  * Thomas Plantagenet, 2nd Earl of Lancaster (born 1278, date of death unknown)
  * Henry Plantagenet, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (born 1281, date of death unknown)
  * John Plantagenet, Lord of Beaufort (c. 1282 – 1327)
  * Mary Plantagenet (c. 1284 – c. 1289)
  
  [edit] Ancestry
  [hide]Ancestors of Blanche of Artois
  
  16. Louis VII of France
  
  8. Philip II of France
  
  17. Adèle of Champagne
  
  4. Louis VIII of France
  
  18. Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut
  
  9. Isabelle of Hainaut
  
  19. Margaret I, Countess of Flanders
  
  2. Robert I, Count of Artois
  
  20. Sancho III of Castile
  
  10. Alfonso VIII of Castile
  
  21. Blanche of Navarre
  
  5. Blanche of Castile
  
  22. Henry II of England
  
  11. Leonora of England
  
  23. Eleanor of Aquitaine
  
  1. Blanche of Artois
  
  24. Godfrey III, Count of Leuven
  
  12. Henry I, Duke of Brabant
  
  25. Margaret of Limburg
  
  6. Henry II, Duke of Brabant
  
  26. Matthew, Count of Boulogne
  
  13. Mathilde of Flanders
  
  27. Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
  
  3. Matilda of Brabant
  
  28. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor
  
  14. Philip of Swabia
  
  29. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy
  
  7. Marie of Hohenstaufen
  
  30. Isaac II Angelos, Byzantine Emperor
  
  15. Irene Angelina of Byzantium
  
  31. Herina Tornikaina
  
  Preceded by
  Isabelle of France Queen consort of Navarre
  1270–1274 Succeeded by
  Margaret of Burgundy
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  === Maud ("Matilda") was only child and heir ===
  Maud ("Matilda") was only child and heir when her father died. She was still an infant. King Edward I arranged that she should marry Henry, son of the king's brother Edmund. Henry expanded and completed Kidwelly Castle, which remained in Lancastrian hands, passing to John of Gaunt as Maud's estate passed to her granddaughter, Blanche, who became John of Gaunt's first wife.
  
  === OLD NOTES FROM MERGES ===
  !Maud De Chaworth (by (1)), m. bef. 2 Mar. 1296/7, Henry Plantagenet, b. 1281, d. 22 Sept. 1345, Earl of Lancaster. Ref: (CP I 244).
  
  Maud ("Matilda") was only child and heir when her father died. She was still an infant. King Edward I arranged that she should marry Henry, son of the king's brother Edmund. Henry expanded and completed Kidwelly Castle, which remained in Lancastrian hands, passing to John of Gaunt as Maud's estate passed to her granddaughter, Blanche, who became John of Gaunt's first wife.
  
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  The Bob !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 10, Pedigree Resource File CD 10, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2000) !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 6, Pedigree Resource File CD 6, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === GEN: !Royal Ancestors...by M Call FGR 42 ===
  GEN: !Royal Ancestors...by M Call FGR 426 GEN: !Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage 102nd Ed. "The RoyalLineage" pp GEN: li(51). Dau of Henry Beaumont
  
  === Magna Carta Sureties ===
  Magna Carta Sureties
  
  === SOURCES ===
  W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry P. 97; !BIR-MARR-DEATH: ROYAL ANCESTORS Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent Together with Their Paternal Ancestry by Joseph Foster p 4 1884; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists p. 153; Royal Ancestors.....by M Call p.64 #14 & 11208 #7 & FGR 113; ANCESTRAL ROOTS, by F. L. Weis, 7th Ed., Line 72 #32, pg. 73: Maud de Chaworth; m. bef. 2 Mar 1296/7 Henry Plantagenet (17-29), b. 1281, d. 22 Sep 1345, Earl of Lancaster. (CP I 244). MAGNA CHARTA SURETIES, by F. L. Weis, 4th Ed., Line 4 #6, Pg. 3: Maud de Chaworth, by Patrick Sir Patrick de Chaworth, Lord of Kempsford, co. Gloucester, and Kidwelley, Wales, son of Patrick de Chaworth, d. 1258, lord of Kempsford, co. Gloucester, b. c1282 (ae. 1 in 1283), d. 1317-22; m. as 1st wife bef. 2 Mar 1296-/7, Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, b. c1281, d. 22 Sep 1345, son of Edmund Plantagenet and Blanche of Artois, and grandson of King Henry III (161-13) of England and Eleanor of Provence. (CP VII, 396-401; Sanders, cit. 401). He m. (2) as 2nd husb., Alix, dau of John de Joinville; Magna Charter Sureties; Line 72 (32); Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull; Complete Peerage-v7-p400, (FHL 942 D22cok); !AF: BAPT-END> AFN:B1Q99G; !KIN> dau & h; TITLE> not a Countess as died between 1317-1322, husband cr Earl-1326; `TITLE> Baroness Lancaster; ^BUR: L1> Mottisfont Priory;
  
  === SOURCES ===
  Ancestral Roots 17-29, 18, 72-32; "Histories andAntiquities of Northampton" (HAN), Vol. II, pp. 239-40; Magna Charta Sureties 4-6, Sureties: Maud de Chaworth, living 1345
  
  Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States, at 295 (1992).
  
  Maude de Chaworth (by (1)), m. bef. 2 Mar. 1296/7 Henry Plantagenet (17-29), b. 1281, d. 22 Sept. 1345, Earl of Lancaster. [Weis "60 Colonists", line 72-32.]
  
  She was her father's heiress. pg 77, "Ancestral Roots of Sixty Colonists etc" by Frederick Lewis Weiss, 6th Edition; pg. 111, " A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire" by Sir Bernard Burke, published 1883; ROYAL ANCESTORS Our Noble & Gentle Families of Royal Descent Together with Their Paternal Ancestry by Joseph Foster p 4 1884
  
  1st wife of Henry Plantagenet. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
  !Daughter of Sir Patrick de Chaworth of Kidwelly and Isabel de Beauchamp. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p. 184]
  
  b. 1282, d. 1317 [Judy Martin]
  
  m. Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster; mother of Eleanor. [Charlemagne &Others, Chart 2539]
  
  m. Henry Plantagenet; mother of Joan Plantagenet. [Ancestral Roots, p. 22]
  
  Dau. of Isabel de Beauchamp and Sir Patrick de Chaworth; mother of Henry of Grosmont. [Ancestral Roots, pp. 73-4]
  
  Dau. of Patrick de Chaworth; an infant at her father's death, the Kidwelly heiress was granted in marriage by Edward I in 1291 to Henry, the 2nd son of Edmund, earl of Lancaster, although the actual marriage ceremony did not take place until 1298. The future of an heiress and a major lordship in Wales was too important to stay undecided for long. The castle remained in the family until Henry's son and successor died without a male heir in 1361. Kidwelly was then settled on Blanche, the wife of John of Gaunt, who later became duke of Lancaster, and on the accession of their, son Henry in 1399 as the first Lancastrian king of England (Henry IV), Kidwelly passed into the hands of the Crown. [Kidwelly Castle, p. 5]
  
  Patron of Morrisfont Priority. She married (his second marriage) Sir Henry Plantagenet; Earl of Lancaster; Member of Parliament 1298/9; son of Edmund Plantagenet and Grandson of Henry III. References SEE SEPARATE SCHEDULE FOR FULL NAMES -- Weis 161-13; Weis-S 17-28; Cokayne I pg 244, II pg 61, VII pg 156, 386, 393 & 401; Turton pg 97; d'Angerville III pg 22, 632, IV pg 90 &470.
  
  ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF SIXTY COLONISTS WHO CAME TO AMERICA BETWEEN 1623 AND 1650, 6TH ED 1988, PG 23 LINE 17-29, PG 24, LINE 18-29, PG 25, LINE 19-29, PG 77 LINE 72-32 !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL FILE VERSION 4.15
  
  Maud was the daughter of Sir Patrick Chaworth and Isabel Beauchamp.(Ahlstrom, Dictionary of Royal Families, p 154)
  
  Maud de Chaworth, b. c 1282 (age 1 in 1283), d. 1317-1322; m. as his 1st wife bef. 2 Mar 1296/7, Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, b. c 1281, d. 22 Sep 1345, son of Edmund Plantagenet and Blanch of Artois, and grandson of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. [Magna Charta Sureties]
  
  BIOGRAPHY: Maud de Chaworth m. Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Lancaster,nephew of King Edward I. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited,and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 111,Chaworth, Baron Chaworth] Source: Title: Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages Author: Sir Bernard Burke Publication: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883 Repository: Note: CD367, Notable British Families, 1600s-1900s, The Learning Co.,Inc., 1999 Call Number: ISBN 0-8063-0789-7 Media: Book Page: p. 111, Chaworth, Baron Chaworth Source: Title: Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages Author: Sir Bernard Burke Publication: Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883 Repository: Call Number: ISBN 0-8063-0789-7 Media: Book Page: p. 432, Plantagenet, Earls of Chester, &c.
  
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• m. 1269 in Melun, Seine-et-Marne, Île-de-France, France

1. Jeanne de Navarre de Champagne I, b. JAN 1272 in Bar, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France     d. 2 APR 1305 in Vincennes, Val-de-Marne, Île-de-France, France

• m. 3 JAN 1276 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France

1. Henry of Lancaster 3rd Earl of Lancaster, b. ABT 1281 in Castle Grismond, Monmouthshire, Wales     d. 22 SEP 1345 in Leicester the Castle View, Leicestershire, England

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