Keyword/s: CASTILE, FRANCE, HISTORY, PILGRIMAGE-GENERAL, SAINTS
Ref Type: Book
- Author
- Pernoud, Régine (trans. Noel, Henry)
- Year
- 1975
- Publisher
- Collins
- Published in
- London
- Accession No
- 08132
- pp
- 319
- Edition
- 1st English
- location
- BKA
- Comment
Descended from Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Blanche (daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor Plantagenet) married Louis VIII of France and was the mother of St Louis (IX). Several references to Compostela and other pilgrimages.