Blanche Lancaster

1345 - 1369  (24 years)

• Name	Blanche Lancaster  [1]
  Birth	25 Mar 1345	Lancaster, Lancashire, England   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	30 Sep 1369	Staffordshire, England   [1]
  	She was 23 years of age at the time of her death at Tutbury Castle, and it is believed that Blanche may have died after contracting the Black Death which was rife in Europe at that time
  Burial	London, England   [2]
  	St Paul's Cathederal
  		Church - Cathedral of St Paul Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built from 1087 to 1314 and dedicated to Saint Paul, the cathedral was perhaps the fourth church at Ludgate Hill. Work on the cathedral began after a fire in 1087. Work took more than 200 years,…
  Person ID	I9500	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family	1st Duke of Lancaster John Gaunt Plantagenet,   b. 14 Mar 1340, Belgium d. 3 Feb 1399, Leicester, Leicestershire, England (Age 58 years)
  Marriage	19 May 1359	Reading, Berkshire, England
  	Reading Abbey
  		_Blanche and John Gaunt The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359, today located in The Museum of Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_of_blanche_of_lancster_and_john_of_gaunt_1359.jpg
  Marriage End	1472
  	Death of Blanche
  Children	1. Henry Plantagenet, IV,   b. 30 May 1366, Lincolnshire, England d. 20 Mar 1413, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 46 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 25 Mar 1345 - Lancaster, Lancashire, England Marriage - 19 May 1359 - Reading, Berkshire, England Death - 30 Sep 1369 - Staffordshire, England Burial - - London, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Old World		_Blanche and John Gaunt The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359, today located in The Museum of Reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marriage_of_blanche_of_lancster_and_john_of_gaunt_1359.jpg
  		_Blanche Plantagent http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=8043645&PIpi=1737091

  
  

  Places

  Church - Cathedral of St Paul Old St Paul's Cathedral was the cathedral of the City of London that, until the Great Fire of 1666, stood on the site of the present St Paul's Cathedral. Built from 1087 to 1314 and dedicated to Saint Paul, the cathedral was perhaps the fourth church at Ludgate Hill. Work on the cathedral began after a fire in 1087. Work took more than 200 years,…

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. Record for Henry Plantagenet http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=-1565558120&indiv=try [S10709] FindAGrave Old World (Famous), Blanche Lancaster 1345-1368. English nobility, the daughter of Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster and Isabel Beaumont. Some sources say she was born March 25, 1345. She married John of Gaunt on May 19, 1359 at Reading. The couple had seven children, including the future King Henry IV and Philippa, Queen of Portugal. Blanche died of plague at Bolingbroke Castle at the age of 29. Geoffrey Chaucer's original poem "The Book of the Duchess" was written as a eulogy for Blanche. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8043645/blanche-of_lancaster