Blanche del Carretto (1432 – 1458), was Lady of

Monaco Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...

by marriage to

Catalan, Lord of Monaco Catalan Grimaldi (Catalano Grimaldi) (c. 1415–1457) was Lord of Monaco from 1454 until 1457. Sources 1415 births 1457 deaths 15th-century Lords of Monaco House of Grimaldi Lords of Monaco People of Ligurian descent {{Monac ...

. She has also been called Marguerite del Carretto. She was the daughter of Galeotto I del Carretto, Margrave of Finale. Blanche and Catalan had only one child. Her husband designated their daughter Claudine as ruler of Monaco upon his death. When he died in 1457, he was succeeded by their daughter Claudine, then only a child, but the regency government was assigned to Blanche's mother-in-law

Pomellina Fregoso Pomellina Fregoso (1387/88 in Genoa – 1468 in Monaco) was Lady Consort of Monaco by marriage to Jean I, Lord of Monaco, and the mother of Lord Catalan. She served as regent of Monaco several times during the absence of her husband between 1437 ...

rather than to Blanche. Pomellina was deposed by Claudine's cousin Lambert in 1458, who assumed the Lordship of Monaco himself. Blanche died the same year of the accession of Lambert. ; Issue: #

Claudine, Lady of Monaco Claudine or Claudia ( – 19 November 1515) was Lady regnant of Monaco between 1457 and 1458, and the Lady consort of Monaco by marriage to Lord Lambert of Monaco. Life Claudine was the daughter of Blanche del Carretto and Catalan Grimaldi. ...

(1451-1515)

References

* Michel-Yves Mourou, ''Princesses de Monaco'', Editions du Rocher, Monaco, 2010. 1458 deaths 1432 births House of Grimaldi 15th-century French people 15th-century French women {{Monaco-bio-stub