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'Philippa of Lancaster', LG (31 March, 1360 Leicester Castle – July 19, 1415 Odivelas) was an English princess, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (a son of Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault) by his wife and cousin Blanche of Lancaster. Blanche was the daughter of Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Isabel de Beaumont.
Philippa became Queen consort of Portugal by her marriage with king John I, celebrated on 11 February, 1387 in the city of Porto. This marriage was the final step in the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, against the France-Castile axis. Philippa is remembered for being a generous and loving queen, and by being the mother of the "Illustrious Generation" (in Portuguese, ''Ínclita Geração'') of princes, whose members were:

★ 'Blanche' (1388-1389), named after her grandmother, who died as an infant;

★ 'Afonso' (1390-1400), named after several Kings of Portugal, including his great-grandfather Afonso IV, who died at the age of 10;

★ 'Edward' (1391-1438), named after his great-grandfather Edward III, a writer and an intellectual, who succeeded his father;

★ 'Peter' (1392-1449), named after his grandfather Peter I of Portugal, First Duke of Coimbra, remarkable ruler and a traveled man, who served as Regent during the minority of his nephew Afonso V;

★ 'Henry the Navigator' (1394-1460), First Duke of Viseu, who guided Portugal to the Great era of The Discoveries;

★ 'Isabella' (1397-1472), who married Philip III of Burgundy and was one of the most powerful and admired women in Europe;

★ 'Blanche' (1398), also died in childhood;

★ 'John' (1400-1442), Duke of Aveiro, a very respected noble and the grandfather of the two greatest Iberian monarchs in the 16th century, Manuel I of Portugal and Isabella I of Castile;

★ 'Ferdinand' (1402-1433) "the Saint Prince," a warrior, who was captured during the Disaster of Tangier and died prisoner of the Moors.
Philippa died of plague in 1415, a few days before the expedition to Ceuta. She was buried at the Monastery of Batalha.