Blanche of Burgundy

Blanche of Burgundy (1288 – July 1348), daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France, was married in 1307 to Edward, heir to Savoy. Her mother arranged the match, signed at the French king's Paris court, and the wedding followed at the Château de Montbard.

After Edward became count in 1323, she commissioned the Hours of Savoy, a book of hours now kept at Yale. He died in 1329, and Blanche bargained with his brother and successor Aymon over her dower until 1330, when she received lands in Bresse.

In 1346–1347 she used her influence at the court of her nephew Amadeus VI to draw Savoy closer to Burgundy, which led to his brief engagement to Joan of Burgundy. She died in 1348, perhaps of the Black Death.