ARTOIS

(Ancestral line of John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury, Ancestral line of descendants of Rev. John Knox)

BLANCHE of Artois was born in 1302. She married, first, in 1269, Henry I, King of Navarre. She married, second, on 29 October 1276, Edmund Plantagenet "Crouchback," Earl of Lancaster and Earl of Leicester, who was born in London on 16 January 1244/45 and died on 5 June 1296 at Bayonne. Blanche was the daughter of

ROBERT, Count of Artois, was born in 1216 and died in 1250. He married, in 1237, as her first husband, Matilda of Brabant, who died on 29 September 1288. Robert was the son of

LOUIS VIlI, King of France, was born in 1187 and died in 1226. In 1200, he married Blanche of Castile, who died in 1253. He was the son of

PHILIP II, King of France, married in 1180 Isabel (see Hainault), heiress of Artois (see France- Capetian).

Ref: Ancestral Roots, pps. 36, 60 and 104; Royal Genealogies, p. 595.