Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII. of France and mother of St. Louis; regent of France during the minority of her son and during his absence in crusade; governed with great discretion and firmness; died of grief over the long absence of her son and his rumoured intention to stay in the Holy Land (1186‒1252).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Blanchard, Laman * Blanchet, The Abbé