Blanche of Lancaster (1305-1380)

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Blanche of Lancaster (also Lady Blanche Wake ; * 1305 , † before July 12, 1380 ) was an English noblewoman.

Blanche came from a branch of the Plantagenet family . She was the eldest daughter of Henry of Lancaster and Maud de Chaworth . Before October 9, 1316, she married the young nobleman Thomas Wake without the king's permission . King Edward II was initially very angry about this, through the mediation of Blanche's father he finally forgave Wake and handed over his inheritance to him on June 6, 1317, making him 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell . Blanche's husband became a close follower of King Edward III. , who was her great cousin, his good relationship with the king was certainly promoted by his wife's kinship with the king.

The marriage with Wake remained childless, her husband died in early 1349. His possessions fell to his sister Margaret , Blanche received Bourne Castle in Lincolnshire and possessions other than Wittum . An argument broke out between one of her followers and a follower of Thomas Lisle , Bishop of Ely , which turned into a bitter and violent feud . The bishop's followers burned Blanche's holdings. In the parliament of November 1355, Blanche finally turned directly to King Edward III. for help. The king then took up the dispute himself and immediately ordered the confiscation of the bishop's temporalities . The representatives of the bishop declared that this contradicted the laws passed by the king himself in 1340. A judgment by the King's Bench , however, found the king right in October 1356, so that the bishop's possessions were still confiscated. On November 19, 1356, the bishop had to go into exile.

Blanche died shortly before July 12, 1380 and was buried in the Franciscan Monastery of Stamford in Lincolnshire.

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SURNAME Blanche of Lancaster
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plantagenet, Blanche de; Wake, Blanche
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobles
DATE OF BIRTH 1305
DATE OF DEATH before July 12, 1380