Can anyone expand upon it or give more details about the agreement.
"In 1402, princess Blanche of England aged 10, married Prince Louis of the palatinate from the formidable house of Wittelsbach. He was 24 years old. Beeing the daughter of king Henri IV of England, Blanche did receive an impressive dowry of 40 000 gold coins and that crown made in gold with rubies, sapphires and pearls. The crown is a splendid of gothic craftsmanship and although it is definitely the older existing English crown it may not be English. It seems it came to England in 1382 when princess Anne of Bohemia married king Richard II of England. Many experts suggest that the craftmanship of the crown suggest it was made in France or possibly in Prague (where Anne of Bohemia was born) by a french Golsmith working in Bohemia. In any case it is an absolute splendour. Anne died in 1394, childless, and her husband was deposed in 1399 by one of his cousins, Henry of Lancaster who became Henry IV of England and who was Blanche īsi father. Blanche also died childless at the very young age of 17 in 1409. Her husband who became Palatine elector one year later kept the crown. And it remained. In the treasury of that branch of the wittelsbach family in Heidelberg. In 1680 when the last prince of the palatinate branch of the wittelsbach family became extinct, their land and treasures were transmitted to another branch of the same family and then to another one untill all the possessions of the wittelsbach family were united in the Bavarian branch of the family. The crown therefore went to Munich where it remained since. The Bavarian monarchy was abolished in 1918, but due to the very complicated deal set between the wittelsbach family and the Bavarian state in the 1920s that crown may still be, like all the Bavarian Crown Jewels exhibited in the Residenz in Munich, partly a private possession of the wittelsbach family. As you may have guessed it is one of my favourite piece of jewelry ever. #royaljewels #crown #rubies #bavaria #wittelsbachfamily #kingofbavaria."
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