Children
Philippa is remembered for being a generous and loving queen and for being the mother of the "Illustrious Generation" (in Portuguese, Ínclita Geração) of infantes (princes) and infantas (princesses), whose members were:
- Blanche (1388–1389);
- Afonso (July 1390 – 22 December 1400);
- Edward (Duarte) (1391–1438). He was a writer and an intellectual who succeeded his father as King of Portugal in 1433;
- Peter (1392–1449). He was the first Duke of Coimbra, a well-travelled man who served as Regent during the minority of his nephew Afonso V;
- Henry the Navigator (1394–1460), first Duke of Viseu, who guided Portugal to the Great era of The Discoveries;
- Isabella (1397–1472), who married Philip III of Burgundy and was one of the most powerful and admired women in Europe;
- Blanche (1398), died in childhood;
- John (1400–1442), Constable of Portugal, Lord of Reguengos, the grandfather of two 16th century Iberian monarchs, Manuel I of Portugal and Isabella I of Castile;
- Ferdinand (1402–1443) "the Saint Prince," a warrior who was captured during the Disaster of Tangier in 1437 and died a prisoner of the Moors.
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Famous quotes containing the word children:
“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.”
—Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954)
“Important as fathers are, their influence on children shouldn’t be exaggerated just because they were ignored so long. There is no evidence that there is something especially good about fathers as caretakers. There are no areas where it can be said that fathers must do certain things in order to achieve certain outcomes in children. The same goes for mothers.”
—Michael Lamb (late–20th century)
“One has to have run a household before one can know the price of rice and firewood, and one has to have raised children before one can understand a parent’s love.”
—Chinese proverb.