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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