Joan the Lame

Joan of Burgundy (French Jeanne de Bourgogne; * to 1293, † September 12, 1348 or December 12, 1349 in Paris ), called Jeanne la boiteuse (, Joan the Lame ') was the first wife of Philip VI. in the period 1328-1348 Queen of France. She was the daughter of the Burgundian Duke Robert II and his wife Agnes of France (around 1260 to 1327 or 1325 ), daughter of Louis IX ..

Johanna was in July 1313 in Fontainebleau with Philip of Valois (* 1293, † 1350) married, Mr. Courtenay, in 1314, Count of Anjou and Maine, the son of Charles I. IV of Valois and nephews of the reigning King Philip the Fair.

Her sister Margaret of Burgundy, who had married in 1305 the eldest son of Philip the Fair, the Crown Prince Ludwig and later King Louis X, was indicted in 1314 in the course of the scandal at the Tour de Nesle of adultery. Involved in these events also were the other two daughters of the king, Johanna - wife of the future King Philip V - and Blanche of Burgundy, from the family of the Count Palatine of Burgundy and wife of the future King Charles IV All three were arrested, but only Margaret and Blanka convicted and imprisoned in the castle of Château -Gaillard. There, Margaret was strangled in the following year and Blanka detained until after her divorce in 1322.

These operations contributed significantly to that the Capetian dynasty became extinct in the direct male line. Philip of Valois, Joan's husband, joined in 1328 after the death of the childless Charles IV as its closest relative, the succession to. Johanna was crowned with him on 29 May 1328 Reims Cathedral.

Joan of Burgundy probably died of the plague and was in the Abbey of Saint -Denis, the grave laying of the French royal house, buried.

Progeny

Johanna and Philip had nine children:

  • Philip (* 1316, † 1316 )
  • Johanna (* 1318, † 1322)
  • John II the Good (* April 16, 1319, † April 8, 1364 ), King of France 1350-1364
  • Marie ( * 1320, † September 12, 1333 ), ⚭ 1332 John III. Duke of Brabant and Limburg
  • Ludwig ( * / † January 17, 1328 )
  • Ludwig ( * June 8, 1330, † June 23, 1330 )
  • Johann (* 1332, † October 2, 1333 )
  • Philip (* 1336, † 1375 ), Duke of Orléans in 1344 and Touraine, Count of Valois and Beaumont- le -Roger
Robert II, Duke of Burgundy Courtenay (Loiret) Counts and dukes of Anjou Charles, Count of Valois Philip IV of France Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France Joan II, Countess of Burgundy Philip V of France John III, Duke of Brabant Jean Favier Lexikon des Mittelalters Jeanne d'Évreux Blanche of Navarre, Queen of France
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