Last Years
She spent her last years, from 1359 until her death, at the Tønsberg Castle in Norway and ruled the south-east of this country. It seems she spent her last years in economic difficulties. On 9 April 1363, her son Haakon married Margaret, daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark. Shortly after the wedding Blanche fell ill and died. The cause of death and the place where she is buried is unknown.
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“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.”
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