Blanche of Lancaster, Baroness Wake of Liddell

Blanche of Lancaster, Baroness Wake of Liddell (c. 1305 – c. 1380) was an English noblewoman. She was the eldest daughter of Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster and Maud Chaworth. Blanche was named after her grandmother, Blanche of Artois, who had ruled Navarre as regent.

Life

Sometime before 9 October 1316, she married Thomas Wake, 2nd Baron Wake of Liddell, who had been under guardianship of her father. The marriage remained childless.

The Bishop of Ely burned down some of her houses after her husband's death in 1349 and she took legal action against him. Edward III rebuked the bishop for the arson, and ordered him to pay damages. The bishop subsequently had her servant William Holm murdered. Edward then confiscated his possessions and made him ask for forgiveness.

After her brother Henry died, she was one of the executors of his will. In April 1372, custody of brothers John and Thomas was granted to her, as sister of their grandmother, Joan of Lancaster. She lived on to see the start of the reign of King Edward's grandson, Richard II. On her death she was buried at Greyfriars, Stamford.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Blanche of Lancaster, Baroness Wake of Liddell

16. John of England 8. Henry III of England 17. Isabella of Angoulême 4. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster 18. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence 9. Eleanor of Provence 19. Beatrice of Savoy 2. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster 20. Louis VIII of France 10. Robert I of Artois 21. Blanche of Castile 5. Blanche of Artois 22. Henry II, Duke of Brabant 11. Matilda of Brabant 23. Marie of Hohenstaufen 1. Blanche of Lancaster 12. Patrick de Chaworth 6. Sir Patrick de Chaworth of Kidwelly 13. Hawise de London 3. Maud Chaworth 28. William Beauchamp 14. William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick 29. Isabella Mauduit 7. Isabella de Beauchamp 30. John FitzGeoffrey 15. Maud FitzJohn 31. Isabel Bigod

Notes

Works cited

• Mortimer, Ian (2008). The Perfect King The Life of Edward III, Father of the English Nation. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0099527091.
• Ormrod, W. M. (2004). "Wake, Thomas, second Lord Wake (1298–1349)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/28408. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
• Weir, Alison (2008). Britain's Royal Families, The Complete Genealogy. Vintage Books. ISBN 978-0-09-953973-5.