Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne
Joan I
(8 May 1326 ? 29 September 1360,
Chateau d'Argilly
) was ruling
Countess of Auvergne
and
Boulogne
from 1332 to 1360 and
Queen of France
by her marriage to
King John II
.
Life
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She was the daughter of
William XII, Count of Auvergne and Boulogne
, by his wife, Margaret,
a sister of
Philip III of Navarre
. She inherited the counties of
Auvergne
and
Boulogne
after the death of her father.
Her first husband was
Philip of Burgundy
, who held the title
Count of Auvergne
by virtue of their marriage.
They had one surviving child,
Philip
, who would be for much of his brief life
Duke of Burgundy
.
Following the death of her husband, Joan married
John, Duke of Normandy
on 9 February 1350.
This was a second marriage for them both. John's first wife,
Bonne of Bohemia
, had died of
Black Death
and had left him with eight children, so there was little pressure for Joan to give birth to a son and heir. Upon her husband's ascension to the French throne as John II, she became Queen consort of France on 22 August 1350.
Joan's son Philip became a ward of the King. She had three children with King John, two girls and an unnamed son, all of whom died young. Joan died in 1360. Her possessions were inherited by her son.
Issue
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By her first husband, Philip, Joan had the following issue:
By her second husband, John, Joan had two short-lived daughters, Blanche (November 1350) and Catherine (1352), and a short-lived son (1353).
References
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Sources
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- Blockmans, Wm; Prevenier, Walter (1999). Peters, Edward (ed.).
The Promised Lands: The Low Countries Under Burgundian Rule, 1369-1530
. Translated by Fackelman, Elizabeth. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Cox, Eugene L. (1967).
The Green Count of Savoy
. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.
LCCN
67-11030
.
- Le Bel, Jean (2011).
The True Chronicles of Jean Le Bel, 1290-1360
. Translated by Bryant, Nigel. Boydell & Brewer.
- de Venette, Jean (1953). Newhall, Richard A. (ed.).
The Chronicle of Jean de Venette
. Translated by Birdsall, Jean. Columbia University Press.