See also: White

White of Castille , (born the March 4th 1188 with Palencia, Spain - died the November 27th 1252 with Melun), queen of France, was the girl of Alphonse VIII of Castille and Aliénor of England, itself girl of Aliénor of Aquitaine and Henri II Plantagenêt, king d' Angleterre. She was married in 1200 with the future Louis VIII, wire of Philippe-Auguste.

Stipulated by the Treated Narrow part (May 22nd 1200), this marriage had as a principal end a reconciliation between the France and the England, which it will seal ultimately strong evil.

Queen of France in 1223, the reputation of White is due partly to the fact that it gives to Capétiens more than ten children, putting thus fine at a series of reigns obscured by dynastic concerns. The rigor of moral education and nun which it gives to her children is worth also in Blanche the approval of the clergy.

Regent with died of Louis VIII in 1226, the queen however meets the hostility of the barons, probably hostile with the government of a woman, in addition foreign and pressed on another foreigner, the cardinal of Saint-Angel Romano Frangipani, but especially eager to benefit from a weakening of the royal authority to take again the political prerogatives that one century of progress of the royal capacity their made lose.

White thwarts the coalition only by dividing it. The conclusion of the Traité of Meaux-Paris of 1229, which completes to organize the seizure capétienne on the Languedoc, adds to its prestige.

In parallel, it relays the reforming work of Bernard de Clairvaux († 1153) and founds the abbeys of Royaumont (1228) and of Maubuisson (1236).

Saint Louis thus leaves him a great political influence, even after its majority in 1234. It is with it that he entrusted regency during the Seventh crusade of Egypt. It could triumph over the leagues formed against it and against the State by the large vassal ones, controlled with greatest wisdom, and put an end to the war with the Albigensian. Withdrawn with Melun towards the end of its career, she died there in 1252. She was as famous for her beauty as by her wisdom. She inspired, says one, a sharp passion with Thibaut de Champagne, which assisted it in its policy and sang it in its worms. She installed in 1251 in the Abbaye of Juilly an orphanage for the children of knights died in Crusade. She concludes the crusade against the Albigensians in Paris in 1229