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:
“I call the years when our children are between six and twelve the “golden years,” not because everything’s perfect . . . but because the kids are capable and independent. . . . They’re becoming fascinating human beings who continually astound us and make us laugh. And they build our self-esteem. They still adore us for the most part, not yet having reached that age of thinking everything we do is dumb, old-fashioned and irrelevant.”
—Vicki Lansky (20th century)
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—Mary Pipher (20th century)
“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
And Usna’s children died.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)