Blanche of Lancaster

Also known as: Blanch / Blanch of Lancaster · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: first wife of John of Gaunt · First appears: Richard II 63

Richard II 63

• married with John of Gaunt “she was brought vp in hir youth, in the duke of Lancasters house, and attended on his first wife the duchesse Blanch of Lancaster”
• with Katherine Swynford (Katherine Swynford attended on Blanche of Lancaster.) “she was brought vp in hir youth, in the duke of Lancasters house, and attended on his first wife the duchesse Blanch of Lancaster”

Henry IV 2

• parent: Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster “his mother Blanch, daughter and sole heire to Henrie duke of Lancaster”
• child: Henry IV “to whom by his mother Blanch, daughter and sole heire to Henrie duke of Lancaster, he was next of blood, and undoubted heire”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.