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... Blanche's fourteen - year - old mind , for the events that now took place involved many of those closest to her . First , Arthur of Brittany . The youth bade Blanche and Louis farewell early in July 1202 , and rode out to the glorious ...
... Blanche's fourteen - year - old mind , for the events that now took place involved many of those closest to her . First , Arthur of Brittany . The youth bade Blanche and Louis farewell early in July 1202 , and rode out to the glorious ...
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... Blanche's sister Urraca , Queen of Portugal , thus Blanche's own kinsman . Though he was himself a landless younger son , he had been married to Johanna , heiress of the county of Flanders , a union that had put him at the head of one ...
... Blanche's sister Urraca , Queen of Portugal , thus Blanche's own kinsman . Though he was himself a landless younger son , he had been married to Johanna , heiress of the county of Flanders , a union that had put him at the head of one ...
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... Blanche's son Louis . There is an unmistakable personal note in the sisters ' letters , and none of the high - sounding phrases of the clerks in the chancelleries . Yet they were in Latin , for it was still the written language at the ...
... Blanche's son Louis . There is an unmistakable personal note in the sisters ' letters , and none of the high - sounding phrases of the clerks in the chancelleries . Yet they were in Latin , for it was still the written language at the ...
Contents
Prologue | 9 |
BLANCHES HERITAGE | 47 |
THE REALM OF THE FLEURDELIS | 90 |
Copyright | |
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