Joan I, Countess of Auvergne
Joanna I of Auvergne (French Jeanne I d' Auvergne, * May 8, 1326; † September 29, 1360 at the Castle of Argilly ) was Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne and queen of France by her marriage to John II of France. She was the daughter and heiress of William XII. , Count of Auvergne and Boulogne, and Margaret of Évreux. Joanna I of Auvergne and Boulogne went to her father's 1332 's heritage.
On September 26, 1338, she married Philip of Burgundy, called Monsieur Philippe, the only grown-up son of the Duke Odo IV of Burgundy, who bore the title of Count of Auvergne and Boulogne after the wedding, and by 1346 at the siege of Aiguillon an accident was killed. The couple had three children:
- Jeanne (* 1344, † 11 September to 21 November 1360 )
- Marguerite (* probably in 1345, † young), buried in Val -des- Choux
- Philip of Rouvres (* 1346, † November 21, 1361 ), 1350 Duke of Burgundy, Count of Burgundy, Artois, Auvergne and Boulogne
With the death of her father- Odo IV on April 3, 1350 she was regent of Burgundy for her four year old son. Shortly before she married the Crown Prince Jean de Valois in Nanterre on February 19, 1350, who inherited the French crown in the same year, which she became the Queen of France. Your children from this marriage are:
- Blanche ( probably * 1350, † young)
- Catherine (* probably in 1352; † young)
- A son ( probably * 1354, † young)
John II came on September 19, 1356 the battle of Maupertuis in English captivity, from which he was only released after 1360 after the Treaty of Brétigny again. Johanna died in September of the same year. Boulogne and Auvergne passed into the possession of her son Philip of Rouvres, but it died of the plague in the year. With him went the Senior House of Burgundy. Philip's heritage based on Joan's counties was John I of Auvergne, a younger son of Count Robert VII and thus uncle of Joan. Joan of Auvergne was buried in the Basilica of Saint- Denis.