Family
Her paternal grandparents were King Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. Her maternal grandparents were Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol, and Marie of Brittany.
Marie was a daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany, and Beatrice of England, a daughter of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence. Blance was the sister of Isabella of Valois, who married Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, and was the mother Joanna of Bourbon, queen of France. Her other sister was Marie of Valois, who married Charles, Duke of Calabria. Marie was the mother of Queen Joan I of Naples.
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