Talk:Blanca of Navarre

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Blanca, daughter of Garcia VI, was so insignificant that I doubt whether she ever gets any meaningful article here. It would be better to refer to her at her husband's page Sancho III of Castile. Therefore, the disambiguation should be reverted, as the Regent Blanca was sufficiently important and article titles with parentheses should be avoided. 62.78.104.129 17:10, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunately there are several Blancas, so we need to do something to keep them apart. Just cutting one out and declaring that she is "insignificant" is not the answer. Do you have better proposals for the article titles that will not confuse them? Ekem 02:36, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

The queen regnant lived in their "French" era, thus she is anyway Blanche of Navarre. Whereas the regent was born, and was regent in Spanish era, thus Blanca of Navarre. As long as there are only two of them worth of an article, disambiguation is generally made in the beginning of their own articles, saying that "another Bl. was... see [[]]" 217.140.193.123 08:47, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hope there does not grow an abundance of Blanca of Navarres, insignificant ones, demanding recognition here. 217.140.193.123 08:47, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Blanca

Interesting study of spread of a novelty throughout generations and countries....

when the female name Blanca/Blanche became in use in Western European culture? After now perusing plenty of royal genealogies, I did not find any royal Blanche before the children of Garcia VI of Navarre and the Frenchwoman Marguerite d'Aigle where a daughter received that name. Perhaps it was a novel innovation, the word "white" translated into a beautiful name.

I do not doubt that there possibly were some Blanches before that. Possibly such was a name of some obscure noble family, and used only there. That's anyway a mechanism how a new name becomes frequent: it "belongs" to a family, one of their female descendants marry a sufficently important person (such as king), the name given to a daughter suddenly becomes fashionable and all sorts of vassals begin to give it to their daughters. (Could it be that the obscure family of Marguerite d'Aigle held that girl name among their passing "heirlooms"?)

Does anyone find any Blanche before the Navarrese royal family began in 12th century to spread it, through its daughters to a plentitude of West-European royals and princes??? 217.140.193.123 09:15, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)