Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans (died 1382)

Blanche of France, Duchess of Orléans

French princess (1328–1393)

Blanche of France was the posthumous daughter of King Charles IV of France and his third wife, Joan of Évreux. She was the last direct Capetian and the last-surviving member of her family, and her marriage to her second-cousin, Philip, Duke of Orléans, proved childless. With…