Jeanne d'Évreux

Joan of Evreux (French: Jeanne d' Evreux, * 1310, † March 4, 1371 in Brie -Comte- Robert ) was Queen of France from 1326 to 1328.

She was the daughter of Louis of Évreux and Margaret of Artois. On July 5, 1324 she married her first cousin Charles IV as his third wife, including a papal dispensation was necessary because of the blood relationship. The coronation of the French queen on 11 May 1326. Charles IV died at the February 1328 at the age of 34 years, which the main line of the Capetians was extinct in the male line. The daughter Blanche was born two months later.

In 1341 Johanna donated a chapel and an infirmary for the Franciscan Couvent des Cordeliers in Paris.

Joan of Evreux died in 1371st Her body was buried in the Basilica of Saint- Denis, where her grave figure is obtained. The viscera were buried in the abbey of Maubuisson whether the heart funeral took place at Couvent des Cordeliers or in the Abbey of Maubuisson, is not clear.

Progeny

• Johanna ( * before the May 11, 1326, † before January 16, 1327 )
• Marie ( * 1327, † October 6, 1341 ), unmarried
• Blanche (* April 1, 1328; † February 7, 1392 ) ⚭ January 18, 1344 Philippe de Valois (* 1336, † September 1, 1375 )