Blanca de la Cerda

Blanca Núñez de Lara (c. 1317 – 1347) was a Spanish noblewoman.

Blanca Núñez de Lara
Blanca de La Cerda and Don Juan Manuel, in a 17th-century Portuguese painting series depicting the ancestors of the Manuel family (Ficalho Palace, Serpa, Portugal)
Born	c. 1317
Died	1347
Noble family	House de la Cerda
Spouse(s)	Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
Issue	Fernando Manuel Juana Manuel
Father	Ferdinand de la Cerda
Mother	Juana Núñez de Lara

She was the daughter of Fernando de la Cerda (1275–1322) and Juana Núñez de Lara, called "la Palomilla".

Blanca was the third wife of Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, a member of the junior branch of the Castilian royal house. They had two children: Fernando Manuel, his father's heir, and Juana Manuel, who married the (illegitimate) Henry II of Castile and became queen consort of Castile.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Blanca de la Cerda

16. Ferdinand III of Castile 8. Alfonso X of Castile 17. Elisabeth of Swabia 4. Ferdinand of Castile 18. James I of Aragon 9. Violant of Aragon 19. Violant of Hungary 2. Fernando de la Cerda 20. Louis VIII of France 10. Louis IX of France 21. Blanche of Castile 5. Blanche of France 22. Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence 11. Margaret of Provence 23. Beatrice of Savoy 1. Blanca Núñez de Lara 24. Gonzalo Núñez de Lara 12. Nuño González "el Bueno" de Lara 25. María Díaz de Haro 6. Juan I Núñez de Lara 26. Alfonso IX of León 13. Teresa Alfonso 27. Aldonza Martínez de Silva 3. Juana Núñez de Lara 28. Lope Díaz II de Haro 14. Diego López III de Haro 29. Urraca Alfonso de León 7. Teresa Díaz de Haro 30. Guillem II de Montcada 15. Constance de Béarn 31. Garsenda de Provenza

Sources

• Doubleday, Simon R. (2001). The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain. Harvard University Press.