Individual Details

Blanca de Castilla

(Ca 1183 - 1 Dec 1252)

thePeerage.com

Blanca de Castilla1
F, #102384, b. circa 1183, d. 1 December 1252
Last Edited=19 Jun 2005
Consanguinity Index=0.09%
Blanca de Castilla was born circa 1183 at Palencia.2 She was the daughter of Alfonso VIII, Rey de Castilla and Eleanor Plantagenet.3 She was also reported to have been born in 1188. She married Louis VIII, Roi de France, son of Philippe II Auguste Capet, Roi de France and Isabelle de Hainaut, on 23 May 1200 at Normandy, France.1 She died on 1 December 1252 at Paris, France.
Children of Blanca de Castilla and Louis VIII, Roi de France

Philippe de France b. 1209, d. 1218
Louis IX, Roi de France+1 b. 25 Apr 1215, d. 25 Aug 1270
Robert I de France, Comte d'Artois+ b. Sep 1216, d. 9 Feb 1250
Philippe de France b. c 1218, d. 1220
Jean de France, Comte d'Anjou et Maine4 b. 1219, d. c 1226
Alphonse III de Poitiers, Comte de Toulouse b. 1220, d. 1271
Philippe de France b. 1222, d. 1232
Isabelle de France b. 1224, d. 1269
Charles I Stephen d'Anjou, King of Naples and Sicily+ b. Mar 1226, d. 7 Jan 1285

Citations

[S45] Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 64. Hereinafter cited as Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I.
[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 62. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
[S106] Royal Genealogies Website (ROYAL92.GED), online http://www.daml.org/2001/01/gedcom/royal92.ged. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogies Website.
[S16] JirĂ­ Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.

Events

BirthCa 1183
Death1 Dec 1252

Families

SpouseLouis VIII, Roi de France "the Lion" (1187 - 1226)
ChildRobert I de France (1216 - 1250)
ChildLouis IX "the Saint" (1215 - 1270)
FatherAlfonso VIII (1155 - 1214)
MotherEleanor Plantagenet (1162 - 1214)
SiblingBerengaria de Castilla (1181 - 1245)
SiblingEleanor de Castilla (1190 - 1253)