Blanche of England

            Blanche of England was born in the spring of 1392 at Peterborough Castle, Northamptonshire. She was made the Lady of the Garter in, a high honor in the Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry or knighthood in England, in 1408.
            When Blanche's father, King Henry IV of England came to rule, he wanted to make strong alliances so as not to be overthrown easily. One of the people he wanted to ally with was King Rupert of Germany, so Blanche and Louis, Rupert's eldest surviving son, were married on the sixth of July, 1402 at the Cologne Cathedral, in Germany. On the twenty-second of June, 1406, Blanche had a son, who was named Rupert, after his grandfather.
            A year after she was made Lady of the Garter, she became pregnant with her second child and died of fever in Haguenau, Alsace on the twenty-second of May, 1409, and was buried in the canonchurch of St. Mary in Neustadt in the Palatinate.