Biography Blanche
Blanche is a female name, meaning "white" (in its feminine form) in French (English and French: Blanche; Italian: Bianca; Spanish: Blanca; Portuguese: Branca).
It became common in the last medieval centuries in the Western European cultural sphere. Apparently the name, possibly invented at that time, received a boost when king Garcia VI of Navarre and his French-born wife Marguerite de L'Aigle named one of their daughters Blanca. Many of their descendants, who rapidly spread to royal families all around Western Europe, named one of daughters Blanche.
People
There have been several persons named "Blanche" or "Blanca":The Navarrese royal family
- Blanca of Navarre, daughter of Garcia VI of Navarre, wife of King Sancho III of Castile, died 1156
- Blanca of Navarre , also Blanche de Navarre, died 1229, countess of Champagne and regent of Navarre
- Blanche of Artois, also Blanche de Navarre, died 1300, regent of Navarre
- Blanche of Navarre, wife of duke John I of Brittany
- Blanche I of Navarre (1385-1441), Queen Regnant of Navarre
- Blanche of Navarre, daughter of the previous. Pretender of Navarre, divorced queen of Castile.
- Blanche II of Navarre (1391-1441), (same as Blanche I ?), wife of John II of Aragon and Sicily
- Blanca of Navarre , first wife of Henry IV of Castile
Other nobility
- Blanche of Castile, queen of France, granddaughter of Blanca of Navarre
- Blanche of Namur, queen of Norway and Sweden
- Duchess Blanche of Lancaster
- Blanche of Brittany, mother of Robert III of Artois
- Blanche of Sicily, wife of Robert III of Flanders
- Bianca of Naples, wife of James II of Aragon
- Blanche of Burgundy
- Blanche d'Évreux, queen of France
- Blanca of France, wife of Fernando, the eldest son of Alfonso X of Castile
- Blanche of France, wife of Rudolf III of Austria, eldest son of Holy Roman Emperor Albert I
- Blanche of France, 1st Duchess of Orleans
- Blanche de Bourgogne
- Blanche of Valois, wife of Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
- Blanka Teleki, Hungarian countess, reformer of women's education
Other people
- Blanche Baker, actress
- Blanche Bruce, first black to serve a full term in the United States Senate
- Blanche Calloway, 1930s African-American jazz singer
- Blanche Douglass Leathers, first female steamboat captain
- Blanche Lincoln, the senior Senator from Arkansas
- Blanche Ravalec, actress
- Blanche Roddick, mother of tennisman Andy Roddick
- Blanche Stuart Scott, aviatrix
- Bartolomé Blanche, Provisional President of Chile
Fictional characters
- Blanche, Kaede Saitou's angel in the anime and manga series Angelic Layer
- Blanche Devereaux, character in The Golden Girls
- Blanche DuBois, character in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Blanche Hunt, character in Coronation Street
- Blanche Ingram, a character from Jane Eyre
- Blanca, a faceless character from Animal Crossing
- Blanka, a character in the Street Fighter II video games
Arts
- La dame blanche, an opera
- Blanca, a 1971 film by Walerian Borowczyk, named after its title character
- Blanche , a country/rock/punk band
Places
- Blanche Harbor, in the Solomon Islands
- Blanca, Colorado, a town in the United States
- Blanche Ely High School, in Pompano Beach, Florida
Other uses
- Blanching, to cook by brief immersion in boiling water
- Blanche de Navarre, premium asparagus from Navarre
- Blanche (French), Bianca (Italian) and Blanca (Spanish), alternative names for a half note or minim
- Dames Blanches , female spirit in France
- Blanca, the name of 6 tropical cyclones, including:
- Hurricane Blanca that swept the American Continent in 1966
- blanche, a command-line utility for managing Moira mailing lists in Project Athena
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Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche
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