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'{{distinguish|Blanche of Burgundy}} {{Infobox royalty | name = Blanche of Burgundy | image = Blanche de Bourgogne et Louis IX.png | caption = Blanche (left) with [[Louis IX]] (right) | title = [[Countess of Savoy]] | birth_date = 1288 | death_date = July {{death year and age|1348|1288}} | father = [[Robert II, Duke of Burgundy]] | mother = [[Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy|Agnes of France]] | spouse = [[Edward, Count of Savoy]] | issue = [[Joan of Savoy]] | house = [[House of Burgundy|Burgundy]] }} '''Bianca of Burgundy''' (1288 – July 1348), was a Countess consort of [[Savoy]] by marriage to [[Edward, Count of Savoy]]. She was the mother of [[Joan of Savoy]]. ==Life== She was born to [[Robert II, Duke of Burgundy]], and [[Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy|Agnes of France]]. She married in 1307 [[Edward, Count of Savoy]].{{sfn|Cox|1967|p=59}} The marriage was arranged by her mother, and the negotiations was signed at the French court of her uncle, the king of France, in Paris. In the marriage contract, her future spouse was officially secured the position of heir to Savoy. The wedding took place on 17 October 1307 at the Château de Montbard in Burgundy. In 1323, her spouse succeeded to become Count of Savoy. She commissioned a [[Book of hours|Book of Hours]], titled ''Hours of Savoy'', later kept at the Beinecke Library, Yale University. Her daughter Joan married the duke of Brittany in 1329. Blanche was widowed when her spouse Edward died in Gentilly in 1329. Her was succeeded by his brother Aymon. Blanche negotiated with her brother-in-law about her dowry until 8 February 1330, when she was secured Bourg, Treffort, Coligny, Jasseron, Trivier, Pont-de-Vesle and Pontdevaux in Bresse;<ref>Samuel Guichenon, Histoire généalogique de la Royale Maison de Savoie ou Histoire généalogique de la Royale Maison de Savoie justifiée par titres, fondations de monastères, manuscrits, anciens monuments, histoires, et autres preuves authentiques, chez Jean-Michel Briolo, 1660</ref> she was also granted a house in Faubourg Saint-Marcel in Paris by the king of France in 1333. Her daughter Joan questioned the succession and claimed the rights to Savoy from her uncle between 1329 and 1339. In 1346 and 1347, she used her influence at the court of her nephew, [[Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy|Amadeus VI]], to pursue closer alliances with Burgundy to offset the pending sale of the [[Dauphiné]] to [[France]]. This led to his brief engagement with Joan of Burgundy, daughter of [[Philip II, Count of Auvergne|Philip of Burgundy]] and [[Joan I, Countess of Auvergne]].{{sfn|Cox|1967|p=59–61}} She died July 1348, perhaps from the [[Black Death]].{{sfn|Cox|1967|p=70}} == Ancestry == {{ahnentafel|1. '''Blanche of Burgundy'''|2. [[Robert II, Duke of Burgundy]]|3. [[Agnes of France, Duchess of Burgundy|Agnes of France]]|4. [[Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy]]|5. [[Yolande of Dreux, Duchess of Burgundy|Yolande of Dreux]]|6. [[Louis IX of France]]|7. [[Margaret of Provence]]|8. [[Odo III, Duke of Burgundy]]|9. [[Alice of Vergy]]|10. [[Robert III, Count of Dreux]]|11. Alianor de St. Valéry|12. [[Louis VIII of France]]|13. [[Blanche of Castile]]|14. [[Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence]]|15. [[Beatrice of Savoy]]|16. [[Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy]]|17. Alice of Lorraine|18. Hugues, Seigneur de Vergy|19. Gillette de Trainel|20. [[Robert II, Count of Dreux]]|21. Yolanda de Coucy|24=24. [[Philip II of France]]|25=25. [[Isabella of Hainault]]|26=26. [[Alfonso VIII of Castile]]|27=27. [[Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile|Eleanor of England]]|28=28. [[Alfonso II, Count of Provence]]|29=29. [[Garsenda, Countess of Forcalquier]]|30=30. [[Thomas, Count of Savoy]]|31=31. [[Margaret of Geneva]]|collapsed=yes|align=center|boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc;|boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9;|boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc;|boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc;|boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe;}} ==Notes== {{reflist}} ==References== * {{ cite book | last=Cox | first=Eugene L. | title=The Green Count of Savoy | url=https://archive.org/details/greencountofsavo0000coxe | url-access=registration | location=Princeton, New Jersey | publisher=Princeton University Press | year=1967 | lccn=67-11030 }} {{s-start}} {{s-hou|[[House of Burgundy]]||1288|July|1348|[[Capetian dynasty]]}} {{s-roy}} |- {{succession box|title=[[Countess of Savoy]]|before=[[Marie of Brabant, Countess of Savoy|Marie of Brabant]]|after=[[Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat|Yolande of Montferrat]]|years=1323–1329}} {{s-end}} {{Countesses of Savoy|state=collapsed}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Bianca Of Burgundy}} [[Category:1288 births]] [[Category:1348 deaths]] [[Category:Countesses of Savoy]] [[Category:13th-century French women]] [[Category:13th-century French people]] [[Category:14th-century French women]] [[Category:14th-century French people]] [[Category:Daughters of dukes]]'