Blanche of Lancaster
English noblewoman and heiress, died 1368 · Politicians · Lived 1342 to 1368 · aged 26
Blanche of Lancaster was a member of the English-French royal House of Lancaster and the daughter of the kingdom's wealthiest and most powerful peer, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster. She was the first wife of John of Gaunt, the mother of King Henry IV, and the grandmother of King Henry V of England.
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![The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359, by Horace Wright (1914), in the Museum of Reading[8]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Marriage_of_Blanche_of_Lancaster_and_John_of_Gaunt_1359.jpg/500px-Marriage_of_Blanche_of_Lancaster_and_John_of_Gaunt_1359.jpg)
The Marriage of John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster in Reading Abbey on 19 May 1359, by Horace Wright (1914), in the Museum of Reading[8]
The tomb of Blanche and John of Gaunt in Old St Paul's Cathedral, as represented in an etching of 1658 by Wenceslaus Hollar. The etching includes a number of inaccuracies, for example in not showing the couple with joined hands
Blanche and John of Gaunt depicted in a 15th-century family tree of Henry VI
