Blanche of Burgundy, Queen of France

  General Notes:

Blanche of Burgundy (c. 1296 \endash c. 1326) was Queen of France and Navarre for a few months in 1322 through her marriage to King Charles IV the Fair. The daughter of Count Otto IV of Burgundy and Countess Mahaut of Artois, she was led to a disastrous marriage by her mother's ambition. Eight years before her husband's accession to the thrones, Blanche was arrested and found guilty of adultery with a Norman knight. Her sister-in-law, Margaret of Burgundy, suffered the same fate, while her sister Joan was acquitted. Blanche was imprisoned and not released even after becoming queen, until her marriage was annulled when she was moved to the coast of Normandy. The date and place of her death are unknown; the mere fact that she died was simply mentioned on the occasion of her husband's third marriage in April 1326.

Blanche married Charles "The Fair" Capet IV, King of France, son of Philip Capet IV, King of France and Joan I of Navarre, in 1322. (Charles "The Fair" Capet IV, King of France was born between 18 and 19 Jun 1294 in Clermont, Oise, France and died on 1 Feb 1328 in Vincennes, France.)