More interesting takes of our heritage. I think John of Gaunt is well known in the land of ours. Evelyn (Hope I can get this blog out). Evelyn
The wedding of Blanche of Lancaster and John of Gaunt, painted by Horace Wright, 1914
Blanche of Lancaster is one of those ladies of history more famous because of her children and the antics of her husband. Blanche’s life was pitifully short, but her legacy would see the unravelling of peace in the fifteenth century, and the decades of civil war called the Wars of the Roses.
Blanche of Lancaster was born around 25th March 1345, at Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire. She was the 2nd and youngest daughter of illustrious parents; Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster and Isabella de Beaumont. Henry of Grosmont was the grandson of Edmund Crouchback and a great-grandson of Henry III. Isabella was the daughter of Henry, 1st Baron de Beaumont and Earl of Buchan by right of his wife, Alice Comyn.
Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster
Blanche had only one sibling, her older…
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