NOBLEMAN

Blanche of Bourbon

1339 - 1361

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Blanche of Bourbon (1339–1361) was Queen of Castile as the wife of King Peter of Castile. She married Peter in 1353, but he abandoned her for his mistress, Maria. Blanche spent her remaining years imprisoned in Arévalo, Alcázar of Toledo and finally Medina Sidonia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Blanche of Bourbon has received more than 76,494 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Blanche of Bourbon is the 353rd most popular nobleman (down from 326th in 2019), the 1,764th most popular biography from France (down from 1,578th in 2019) and the 60th most popular French Nobleman.

Blanche of bourbon is most famous for being a mixture of bourbon and fresh lemon juice.

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Among NOBLEMEN

Among noblemen, Blanche of Bourbon ranks 353 out of 1,415Before her are Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia, Margaret Fredkulla, William, Count of Luxembourg, Eustace III, Count of Boulogne, Charlotte of Albret, and Prince Nicholas of Romania. After her are Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg, Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Meinhard, Duke of Carinthia, James II, Count of La Marche, Joseph Fesch, and Archduke Ferdinand Karl of Austria.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1339, Blanche of Bourbon ranks 8Before her are Rudolf IV, Duke of Austria, Antipope Alexander V, Louis I, Duke of Anjou, Barquq, Eric XII of Sweden, and Anna von Schweidnitz. After her are Juana Manuel, John IV, Duke of Brittany, Frederick, Duke of Bavaria, Muhammad V of Granada, and Ramesuan. Among people deceased in 1361, Blanche of Bourbon ranks 7Before her are Jean Buridan, Philippe de Vitry, Johannes Tauler, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, Louis V, Duke of Bavaria, and María de Padilla. After her are An-Nasir Hasan, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Giovanni Dolfin, and Ingeborg of Norway.

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In France

Among people born in France, Blanche of Bourbon ranks 1,764 out of 6,770Before her are Louise Labé (1524), Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard Grandville (1803), Jules Breton (1827), Eustace III, Count of Boulogne (1060), Jean-Baptiste Charles Bouvet de Lozier (1705), and Charlotte of Albret (1480). After her are Gersonides (1288), Madame d'Aulnoy (1651), La Goulue (1866), Jean François Paul de Gondi (1613), Nicolas de Largillière (1656), and Henri d'Orléans, Duke of Aumale (1822).

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