Philippa of Lancaster

Princess Philippa of Lancaster, LG (31 March, 1360 Leicester Castle – July 19, 1415 Odivelas) was an English princess, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault) by his first wife and cousin Blanche of Lancaster. Blanche was the daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Isabel de Beaumont.

Philippa became Queen consort of Portugal through her marriage with King John I, celebrated on 11 February, 1387 in the city of Porto. This marriage was the final step in the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, against the France-Castile axis. Philippa is remembered for being a generous and loving queen and for being the mother of the "Illustrious Generation" (in Portuguese, "Ínclita Geração") of princes, whose members were:

* Blanche (1388-1389), named after her grandmother;
* Afonso (1390-1400), named after several Kings of Portugal, including his great-grandfather Afonso IV;
* Edward (1391-1438), named after his great-grandfather Edward III of England. He was a writer and an intellectual, who succeeded his father as King of Portugal in 1433;
*Peter (1392-1449), named after his grandfather Peter I of Portugal. He was the First Duke of Coimbra, a remarkable ruler and well-travelled man, who served as Regent during the minority of his nephew Afonso V;
*Henry the Navigator (1394-1460), first Duke of Viseu, who guided Portugal to the Great era of The Discoveries, named after his great-grandfather Henry of Grosmont;
*Isabella (1397-1472), who married Philip III of Burgundy and was one of the most powerful and admired women in Europe;
*Blanche (1398), died in childhood;
*John (1400-1442), Duke of Aveiro, the grandfather of the two greatest Iberian monarchs in the 16th century, Manuel I of Portugal and Isabella I of Castile;
*Ferdinand (1402-1443) "the Saint Prince," a warrior, who was captured during the Disaster of Tangier and died a prisoner of the Moors.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Philippa of Lancaster

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1= 1. Philippa of Lancaster
2= 2. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
3= 3. Blanche of Lancaster
4= 4. Edward III of England
5= 5. Philippa of Hainault
6= 6. Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster
7= 7. Isabel de Beaumont
8= 8. Edward II of England
9= 9. Isabella of France
10= 10. William I, Count of Hainaut
11= 11. Jeanne of Valois
12= 12. Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster
13= 13. Maud Chaworth
14= 14. Henry de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Buchan
15= 15. Alice Comyn
16= 16. Edward I of England
17= 17. Eleanor of Castile
18= 18. Philip IV of France
19= 19. Joan I of Navarre
20= 20. John II, Count of Hainaut
21= 21. Philippa of Luxembourg
22= 22. Charles of Valois
23= 23. Marguerite of Anjou and Maine
24= 24. Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
25= 25. Blanche of Artois
26= 26. Patrick de Chaworth
27= 27. Isabella de Beauchamp
28= 28. Louis de Brienne
29= 29. Agnés de Beaumont

Philippa died of plague in 1415, a few days before the expedition to Ceuta. She was buried at the Monastery of Batalha.