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Philippa of Lancaster ( Portuguese: Filipa [fiˈlipɐ]; 31 March 1360 – 19 July 1415) was Queen of Portugal from 1387 until 1415 as the wife of King John I. Born into the royal family of England, her marriage secured the Treaty of Windsor and produced several children who became known as the "Illustrious Generation" in Portugal.
Queen Consort of Portugal, mother of the famous Henry the Navigator, Philippa of Lancaster, the English-born queen of a foreign kingdom had an enormous impact on the prosperity of her adopted nation of Portugal.
Mar 16, 2013 · Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal. Philippa of Lancaster did not marry until she was twenty-six years old, quite late for a princess of her rank. Her father, John of Gaunt, arranged a splendid marriage for her in conjunction with an alliance with King Joao I of Portugal.
Jan 2, 2014 · Philippa of Lancaster, Queen of Portugal. By Susan Abernethy. Detail of a miniature of the marriage of John, king of Portugal to Philippa of Lancaster. Philippa of Lancaster did not marry until she was twenty-six years old, quite late for a princess of her rank.
31 March 1360 - 19 July 1415. Philippa of Lancaster was born on 31st March, 1360 at Leicester Castle, the eldest child of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (third surviving son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault) and his third cousin Blanche of Lancaster, daughter and heiress of Henry, Duke of Lancaster and Isabel de Beaumont. Philippa of ...
João I of Portugal (d. 1433) and his queen, Philippa of Lancaster (d. 1415) were founders of the Avisian royal line, the second to rule in Portugal. In the first decades of the fifteenth century, for the first time in the history of the Portuguese royal family a funerary chapel was conceived and purposely built as a royal pantheon.
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Philippa of Lancaster, the daughter of John of Gaunt, son of king Edward III, married king João I of Portugal in 1386/7. The story of her marriage is told by Froissart. See also http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/philippa.html. Without the alliance between King John I, the Archbishop of Braga and Prince John of Gaunt, brother ...
