A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Blanche of Padua

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BLANCHE,

A native of Padua, was celebrated for her resolution. On the death of her husband, at the siege of Bassano, Acciolin, the general of the enemy, offered violence to her person, when she threw herself into her husband's tomb, and was crushed by the falling of a stone that covered the entrance, 1253.