Blanche de Brienne, Baroness Tingry
Blanche de Brienne, Baroness Tingry (c.1252- c.1302) was the wife of William II de Fiennes, Baron of Tingry (c. 1250- 11 July1302). She was also known as Dame de La Loupeland, and Blanche of Acre.
Family
Blanche was born around the year 1252 in France. She was the only child and heiress of Jean de Brienne, Grand Butler of France, and his first wife, Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun (born c.1227- died before 1257), widow of Jean I de Montfort. Her paternal grandparents were John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, and Berenguela of Leon. Her maternal grandparents were Geoffrey IV de Chateaudun and Clemence des Roches. Blanche had a uterine half-sister Beatrice de Montfort, Countess of Montfort-l'Amaury (died 9 March1312) from her mother's first marriage to Jean I de Montfort (died 1249). In 1260, Beatrice married Robert IV of Dreux, Count of Dreux (1241- 1282), by whom she had six children.
Blanche was co-heiress to her mother, by which she inherited Loupeland in Maine.[1]
Marriage and children
In the year 1269, Blanche married William II de Fiennes, Baron of Tingry, son of Enguerrand II de Fiennes and Isabelle de Conde. The settlement for the marriage had been made in February 1266/67.[2] William and Blanche had at least one son and two daughters:
- Jean de Fiennes, seigneur of Fiennes and Tingry (born before 1281 in France- 1340), in 1307 married Isabelle de Dampierre, daughter of Guy de Dampierre, Count of Flanders and Isabelle of Luxembourg. They had a son Robert who was Constable of France, and two daughters Jeanne de Fiennes who married Jean de Chatillon, Count of Saint Pol, and Mahaut de Fiennes who married Jean de Bournonville.
- Joan de Fiennes (died before 26 October 1309), in 1291 married John Wake, Baron Wake of Liddell. Had issue, including Margaret of Wake, mother of Joan of Kent
- Margaret de Fiennes (died 7 February 1333), in September 1285, married Edmund Mortimer, 2nd Baron Wigmore. They had three children, including Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.
In 1285, Blanche received the gift of 12 leafless oak stumps from Selwood Forest from King Edward I for her fuel.[3]
Blanche de Brienne died on an unknown date around the year 1302. Her husband William was killed on 11 July 1302 at the Battle of Courtrai.
References
- ^ Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris "Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families", Royal Ancestry series, p. 155, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore. Md. 2004.
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
- ^ Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families
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