Blanche of Burgundy

thumb| Blanche of Burgundy (c. 1296 – c. 1326) was Queen of France and Navarre for a few months in 1322 through her marriage to King Charles IV the Fair. Quotes about Blanch Blancha verò carcere remanens, à serviente quodam ejus custodiæ deputato dicebatur imprægnata fuisse quàm à proprio Comite diceretur, vel ab aliis imprægnata. [She was got with child by her jailer, or by some others.] Continuation of Guillaume de Nangis, in Luc d'Achery's Spicilegium, vol. iii, p. 70; cited in Michelet's History of France, tr. G. H. Smith (New York, 1882), vol. i, p. 393: "He [the chronicler] goes on to other matters with cruel carelessness; perhaps he durst not say any more of the subject. From what we know of the princes of that time, we may infer that this hapless woman, whose first error was by no means substantiated, was placed at the mercy of some wretch deputed to degrade her." External links Elizabeth A. R. Brown, "The Children of Charles of La Marche and Blanche of Artois and Burgundy", Medieval Prosopography, vol. 34 (2019), pp. 151–74 Category:Queens consort of France