Blanche of Lancaster

1342 - 1368  (26 years)

• Name	Blanche of Lancaster
  Birth	25 Mar 1342  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 Sep 1368  [2, 3]
  Burial	St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England   [2, 4]
  Person ID	I15869	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	22 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Henry of Grosmont,   b. 1314   d. 24 Mar 1361, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Isabel de Beaumont   d. Aft 24 Mar 1361
  Marriage	Abt 1337
  Family ID	F9683	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John of Gaunt,   b. Mar 1340, Abbey of St. Bavo, Ghent, Flanders d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age ~ 58 years)
  Marriage	May 1359	Reading Abbey, Berkshire, England   [5]
  Children	1. Philippa of Lancaster,   b. 31 Mar 1360, Leicester, Leicestershire, England d. 19 Jul 1415, Odivelas, near Lisbon, Portugal (Age 55 years) + 2. Elizabeth of Lancaster,   b. Bef 21 Feb 1363 + 3. Henry IV, King of England,   b. 1367, Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire, England d. 20 Mar 1413, Jerusalem Chamber in the abbot's house near Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 46 years)
  Family ID	F9684	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	13 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Charles M. Hansen noted in 2023 (citation details below) that she was born on the feast of the Annunciation, which was on 25 March in 1342, not 23 March as erroneously reported in his and Neil D. Thompson's Ancestry of Charles II (citation details below).

  
  

• Sources

  [S6857] Charles M. Hansen, "Additions and Corrections to The Genealogist: Charles II." The Genealogist 37:93, Spring 2023. [S1480] The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage by Charles M. Hansen and Neil D. Thompson. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton and Gunn, 2012. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., month and year only. [S77] The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing.