page_title: Blanche of Portugal (1259–1321)
section_title: Will, death, and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Blanche of Portugal (1259–1321) / Will, death, and burial
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sepulcro de la infanta Blanca de Portugal (1259-1321), que era hija del rey Alfonso III de Portugal y de la reina Beatriz de Castilla y nieta de Alfonso X el Sabio. (Monasterio de las Huelgas de Burgos).
context_page_description: Blanche of Portugal, was an infanta, the firstborn child of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile. Named after her great-aunt Blanche of Castile, queen of France, Blanche was the Lady of Las Huelgas, Montemor-o-Velho, Alcocer and Briviesca, the city which she founded.
context_section_description: She executed a will on 15 April 1321  where she ordered her burial at the Convent of Las Huelgas and also asked that ten thousand masses were to be celebrated for the good of her soul. In her will, she granted the city of Briviesca to King Alfonso XI of Castile with the condition that the city was never to be a señorío, that the king was to pay her debts totalling 300,000 maravedís, and entrusted him with the protection of the city and of the Colegitata de Santa María la Mayor which she had founded. 
   Blanche named several executors of her will, including Queen María de Molina and Gonzalo de Hinojosa, the bishop of Burgos.
  Infanta Blanche died at the Convent on 17 April 1321.  Her sepulchre is decorated with intertwined stars and with the arms of the kingdoms of Castile, León, and of the Kingdom of Portugal.
caption: Blanche's tomb at Las Huelgas Convent.
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