White Lady of Avenel (2 syl.), a tutelary spirit.--Sir W. Scott, The Monastery (time, Elizabeth).
White Lady of Ireland (The), the banshee or domestic spirit of a family, who takes an interest in its condition, and intimates approaching death by wailing or shrieks.
White Moon (Knight of the), Samson Carrasco. He assumed this cognizance when he went as a knight-errant to encounter Don Quixote. His object was to overthrow the don in combat, and then impose on him the condition of returning home, and abandoning the profession of chivalry for twelve months. By this means he hoped to cure the don of his craze. It all happened as the barber expected; the don was overthrown, and returned to his home, but soon died.--Cervantes, Don Quixote, II. iv. 12, etc. (1615).
White Queen (The), Mary Queen of Scots (La Reine Blanche); so called by the French, because she dressed in white, in mourning for her husband.
White Rose (The), the house of York, whose badge it was. The badge of the house of Lancaster was the Red Rose.
Richard de la Pole is often called “The White Rose.”
White Rose of England (The). Perkin Warbeck was so called by Margaret of Burgundy, sister of Edward IV. (*-1499).
White Rose of Raby (The), Cecily, wife of Richard, duke of York, and mother of Edward IV. and Richard III. She was the youngest of twenty-one children.
⁂ A novel entitled The White Rose of Raby was published in 1794.
White Rose of Scotland (The), Lady Katherine Gordon, the [? fifth] daughter of George, second earl of Huntly, by his second wife, Princess Annabella Stuart, youngest daughter of James I. of Scotland. She married Perkin Warbeck, the pretender, self-styled Richard, duke of York. (See Warbeck.) She had three husbands after the death of Warbeck.