BLANCHE OF CASTILE

bläNsh, kăstēlˈ, 1185?–1252, queen of Louis VIII of France and regent during the minority (1226–34) of their son Louis IX. A forceful and capable ruler, she checked the coalitions of the great lords and frustrated the attempt (1230) of Henry III of England to regain his father's lands in France. She remained a lifelong adviser to Louis IX, was again regent on his departure (1248) for the Holy Land, and was coregent with her son Alphonse from 1250 until her death.

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books on: Blanche of Castile  - 228 results

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The Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002
Subjects: Castile (Spain)--History
...OF TOULOUSE TO LOUIS IX AND BLANCHE OF CASTILE When the count of Toulouse...was the son of Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile, the daughter of Alfonso VIII...his wifes name. Jeanne and Blanche of Castile were great-grandaughters...
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The Learned King: The Reign of Alfonso X of Castile
Book by Joseph F. O'Callaghan; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993
Subjects: Alfonso--X--King Of Castile And Leon--1221-1284, Castile (Spain)--History--Alfonso X, 1252-1284, Castile (Spain)--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Learning And Scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500
...should inherit the entire realm. In default of the Infantes de la Cerda, he designated Philip III, a grandson of Blanche of Castile, as his heir, emphasizing that the union of France and Spain would redound to the benefit of Christendom. 50...
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A Spanish Tapestry: Town and Country in Castile
Book by Michael Kenny, E. E. Evans-Pritchard; Indiana University Press, 1962
Subjects: Madrid (Spain)--Social Life And Customs, Soria (Spain : Province)--Rural Conditions
...associations to spread its influence. Of these, the most important today are the Catholic Action groups which are given carte blanche under the Concordat to pursue their apostolate. A former member of Catholic Action rose to be Foreign Minister, and the groups...
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The Castles and the Crown: Spain: 1451-1555
Book by Townsend Miller; Coward-McCann, 1963
Subjects: Ferdinand--V--King Of Spain--1452-1516, Isabella--I--Queen Of Spain--1451-1504, Juana--La Loca, Queen Of Castile--1479-1555, Philip--I--King Of Castile--1478-1506
...natural enough: he was getting nowhere in Castile, and he still had the same whole difficult...announced, would they give Charles carte blanche . He had his mothers permission to govern...King shall desist from the governance of Castile, and all and wholly that shall be executed...
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Music History during the Renaissance Period, 1425-1520: A Documented Chronology
Book by Blanche M. Gangwere; Greenwood Press, 1991
Subjects: Music--15th Century--History And Criticism, Music--16th Century--History And Criticism, Renaissance
...Spaniards in 1504 LanE, 426 f Spain continued from page 128 1 The House of Castile LanE, 305 a Isabella 1474-1504 i Fostered singing, sometimes hiring as...Restricted the power of Rome over the Spanish church iii Married Isabella of Castile
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journal articles on: Blanche of Castile  - 17 results

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Our Lady of the Quarter: Blanche Dubois and the Feast of the Mater Dolorosa
Journal article by Philip C. Kolin; American Notes & Queries, Vol. 4, 1991
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Philology, Motion Pictures
...important pieces of evidence about Blanche and the Virgin Mary. First, throughout...associated with characters named Blanche. For example, the Madonna blue...Cathedral were a gift of the historical Blanche of Castile, the Queen of France and the mother...
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Lament for a Lost Queen: the Sarcophagus of Dona Blanca in Najera
Journal article by Elizabeth Valdez Del Alamo; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Blanca of Navarre, Castile Spain, Sancho III, King of Castile, Sculpture, Source studies
...father, Alfonso VII, emperor of Castile and Leon. With her husband, Blanca...VIII el Noble (the Noble) of Castile, was one of the great kings of...not only Spanish kings but also Blanche of Castile, mother of the Capetian king and...
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Beyond the Rule of Saint Benedict: Imposition of Cistercian Customs and Enclosure on Nuns in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries1
Journal article by Constance Berman; Magistra, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Children & youth, Middle Ages, Religion
...reached.46 Others, like Blanche of Castile, saw the foundation of such...supported by powerful women such as Blanche of Castile or her circle.52 ISSUES AND...Similarly, it is well known that Blanche of Castile, circa 1237, went directly...
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Young Women in France and England, 1050-1300
Journal article by Fiona Harris Stoertz; Journal of Women's History, Vol. 12, 2001
Subjects: Women--History
...Westminster, Flores Historarium , 1165. Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII ( Roger of...Henry III ( Parsons, Eleanor of Castile , 20); Margaret, daughter of...Majora , 5:272); Eleanor of Castile, wife of Edward I ( Parsons...
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Masculine Agency and Moral Stance in Shakespeare's King John
Journal article by Ian Mcadam; Philological Quarterly, Vol. 86, 2007
...the Dauphin Lewiss acceptance of Blanche of Castile as a bride, and a passage from...interest between Faulconbridge and Blanche hinted at in the Troublesome Raigne...Angiers to suggest a marriage between Blanche of Spain, King Johns niece, and...
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Persiani's Ines de Castro at Jesi
Magazine article by Robert Boas; Musical Opinion, Vol. 123, Winter 2000
...Spanish mistress Ines in preference to the Infanta Blanche of Castile, whom his father Alfonso IV favours. It has been...role which needs a bass rather than a baritone. As Blanche of Castile Lisa Houben was the most satisfying member of the...
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Unravelling the Da Vinci Code: Bill Putnam and John Edwin Wood Peel Away the Evidence to Find an Extraordinary Hoax at the Heart of Dan Brown's Bestselling Novel
Magazine article by Bill Putnam, John Edwin Wood; History Today, Vol. 55, January 2005
Subjects: Brown, Dan (American writer), Legends--Analysis, Novels--Analysis, The Da Vinci Code (Novel)--Analysis
...gathered his money. Thus it was that the paper carried a vivid account of the priest discovering the treasure of Blanche de Castile (1185-1252), wife of Louis VIII and regent of their son, the future St Louis. The reports suggested that...
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Christopher Columbus and the Enslavement of the Amerindians in the Caribbean
Magazine article by Jalil Sued-Badillo; Monthly Review, Vol. 44, July 1992
Subjects: Columbus, Christopher--Discovery and exploration, Papal documents--15th century AD, Slave trade--15th century AD, Slavery--15th century AD, Slavery--Europe, Tainos--Spain
...surfaced. The new states of Castile and Portugal had neither the...Ferdinand took them as carte blanche to repress the natives. In...Portuguese Courts. He left for Castile, hoping for better luck...well regarded in the Courts of Castile for his administrative abilities...
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Missing from History: Jeannette Lucraft Recovers the Identity and Reputation of the Remarkable Katherine Swynford
Magazine article by Jeannette Lucraft; History Today, Vol. 52, May 2002
Subjects: Mistresses--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Swynford, Kathering--Biography, United Kingdom--History, 1399-1461 (Lancastrians)
...joining the household of Blanche of Lancaster after the marriage...Elizabeth, daughters of Gaunt and Blanche. At about the same time she...his second wife Constance of Castile. The affair between Katherine...Bolingbroke, son of Gaunt and Blanche (Henry IV, 1399-1413...
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Menage a Roi Edward II & Piers Gaveston
Magazine article by J.S. Hamilton; History Today, Vol. 49, June 1999
Subjects: Edward II, King of England--Biography, Gaveston, Piers--Biography, Kings and rulers--Biography, United Kingdom--Kings and rulers
...April 25th, 1284, the fourth son of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile, yet by the summer of his first year he was the heir to his...later, would imprison his daughters-in-law, Margaret and Blanche of Burgundy, on charges of adultery, executing their lovers...


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Beautiful Lot Is Holy Treasure; under the Hammer
Newspaper article; Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England), March 26, 2011
...queen or saint holding an orb and purse - she may represent Queen Margaret of Provence or, more probably, Queen Blanche of Castile, Louis mother. This altar, which displays Pugin influences but which may well be French, was reputedly commissioned...
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Smart Courtier John of Gaunt Sought Power, Not a Crown
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, August 22, 2004
Subjects: Wycliffe, John (Theologian)
...pursuing his claim to be king of Castile and Leon, in Spain. His second...of Pedro the Cruel, king of Castile. Her husband, after leading...marriage to his first wife, Blanche, in 1359, John of Gaunt became...devoted to his first wife, Blanche (his literary protege Geoffrey...


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encyclopedia articles on: Blanche of Castile  - 10 results

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Blanche of Castile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BLANCHE OF CASTILE blaNsh, kastel , 1185? 1252, queen of Louis VIII of France and regent during the minority (1226 34) of their son Louis IX...
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Alfonso VIII , Spanish King of Castile
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1155 1214, Spanish king of Castile (1158 1214), son and successor...Leon and Navarre then invaded Castile, but Alfonso forced them to...succeeded his father as Henry I; Blanche, who married Louis VIII of...whose son Ferdinand III united Castile and Leon...
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Peter I , Duke or Count of Brittany
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...in the crusade against the Albigenses. Peter was a leader in the rebellions of the nobles against the regency of Blanche of Castile . Upon his sons majority (1237) Peter ceded Brittany to him. Peter joined the Crusade of 1239 and later accompanied...
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Louis IX , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...of France or Saint Louis, 1214 70, king of France (1226 70), son and successor of Louis VIII. His mother, Blanche of Castile , was regent during his minority (1226 34), and her regency probably lasted even after Louis reached his majority...
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Alphonse
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Albigenses. During the absence of Louis in the Holy Land, Alphonse was coregent (1250 52) with his mother, Blanche of Castile, and later (1252 54) with his younger brother, Charles of Anjou (later Charles I, king of Naples and Sicily...
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