Blanche of Portugal Archives - History of Royal Women

Blanche of Portugal and her illegitimate son

Friday, 16 February 2018, 7:00 Moniek Bloks 1

Blanche of Portugal was born on 25 February 1259 as the daughter of King Afonso III of Portugal and his second wife Beatrice of Castile. Around 1277, she went to live in the Monastery of Lorvão, but she did not take the veil or become its abbess. She is then recorded as living in Seville with her mother in 1283, and [read more]