page_title: Blanche of England
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Blanche of England / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Diese Krone einer englischen Königin (auch: Böhmische Krone, Pfälzische Krone), um 1370 bis 1380, ist die älteste erhaltene Krone Englands. Sie gelangte als Heiratsgut von Prinzessin Blanche 1402 nach Heidelberg und ist heute in der Münchner Schatzkammer. Siehe: http://www.residenz-muenchen.de/deutsch/skammer/bild11.htm English: This crown of an English queen (known as Bohemian or Palatinate Crown) from 1370/80 is the oldest surviving crown of England. It came to Heidelberg as part of Princess Blanche's dowry and is now in the Munich Treasury. See: http://www.residenz-muenchen.de/englisch/treasury/pic11.htm
context_page_description: Blanche of England, LG, also known as Blanche of Lancaster, was a member of the House of Lancaster, the daughter of King Henry IV of England by his first wife Mary de Bohun.
context_section_description: After his accession to the English throne, King Henry IV wanted to make important alliances in order to maintain and legitimise his rule. One needed ally was King Rupert of Germany, who had also ascended following his predecessor's deposition: a marriage between Rupert's eldest surviving son Louis and Henry IV's eldest daughter Blanche was soon arranged.
  The marriage contract was signed on 7 March 1401 in London; the bride's dowry was fixed in the amount of 40,000 Nobeln. The formal marriage between Blanche and Louis took place one year later, on 6 July 1402 at Cologne Cathedral, Germany. Blanche's dowry included the oldest surviving royal crown known to have been in England. Despite its political nature, the marriage was said to be happy. Four years later, on 22 Jun 1406 in Heidelberg, Blanche gave birth to a son, called Rupert after his paternal grandfather.
  In 1408 Blanche was made Lady of the Garter. One year later, pregnant with her second child, she died of fever in Haguenau, Alsace and was buried in the Church of St. Mary (today St. Aegidius) in Neustadt in the Palatinate.
  Her widower became Elector Palatine as Louis III in 1410 after the death of his father King Rupert and in 1417 married Matilda, daughter of Amadeo, Prince of Achaea, member of the House of Savoy, who bore him six children. Blanche's son Rupert (nicknamed the English) died aged nineteen in 1426, unmarried and without issue.
caption: The Crown of Princess Blanche, kept at Munich Residenz)
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