Blanche of France, Duchess of Austria

Blanche of France ( also Blanka; * around 1282 in Paris, † March 1, 1305 in Vienna), was as the wife of Rudolf III. von Habsburg Duchess of Austria and Styria.

The objectives of the marriage politics of the German King Albrecht I was a dynastic alliance with the French royal house. After long and already in 1295 starting negotiations was the eldest son of Rudolf Albrecht in 1300 with Blanche, daughter of the French king Philip III. and at the same time married half-sister of King Philip IV. At Christmas in 1300 met the bride in Vienna, their pompous equipment was highlighted. Later it fell on a slope to luxury, jewelry and expensive clothes. In the short marriage she was the Duke an important support and accompanied him for several months in Styria, which they wanted to meet the second country of their rule and where they temporarily which reigned in his absence in representation. In 1304 she had a stillbirth and then got no more children. A year later she died in Vienna. Your gothic Tumbengrab was lost in 1784 and it was reburied in the Vienna Minoritenkirche.