Joanna of Bourbon

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Joanna of Bourbon
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Queen consort of France
Tenure 1364–1378
Coronation 1 June 1364, at 2 PM
Born 3 February 1338
Vincennes, France
Died 6 February 1378 (aged 40)
Paris, France
Burial Basilique Saint-Denis
Spouse Charles V of France
Issue Charles VI of France
Louis, Duke of Orléans
Katherine
House House of Bourbon
Father Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Mother Isabella of Valois
Religion Roman Catholicism

Joanna of Bourbon (3 February 1338 – 6 February 1378) was Queen of France as the wife of King Charles V.

Early life

Born in the Château de Vincennes, Joanna was a daughter of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon, and Isabella of Valois, a half-sister of Philip VI of France.

From October 1340 through at least 1343, negotiations and treaties were made for her to marry Amadeus VI, Count of Savoy. The goal was to bring Savoy more closely into French influence.[1]

Marriage and Family

In 1350, she married the future Charles V of France. In 1364, she became the queen at the age of only 26. She and Charles had nine children:

  1. Joanna (September 1357 – 21 October 1360, at Abbaye St Antoine des Champs, France)
  2. John (1359–1364)
  3. Bonne (1360 – 7 December 1360, Paris, France)
  4. John, Dauphin of France (Vincennes, 7 June 1366 – 21 December 1366)
  5. Charles VI of France (3 December 1368 – 22 October 1422)
  6. Mary (Paris, 27 February 1370 – June 1377, Paris)
  7. Louis I, Duke of Orléans (13 March 1372 – 23 November 1407)
  8. Isabella (Paris, 24 July 1373 – 13 February 1377, Paris)
  9. Catherine (Paris, 4 February 1378 – November 1388, buried at Abbaye de Maubuisson, France), m. John of Berry, Count of Montpensier (son of John, Duke of Berry)

In 1360, two of her children died within months of each other. Two more children died in 1364 and 1366. Two daughters also died within 5 months of each other in 1377. Her last child also died in childhood.

Death and burial

Joanna died in Paris two days after the birth of her youngest child, Catherine. Froissart[2] recorded that Joanna took a bath against her physicians' advice. Soon after, she went into labour and died two days after giving birth. The king was very upset. Her heart was buried in the convent of the Cordeliers Convent and her entrails in the royal necropolis of the Couvent des Célestins in Paris. The rest of her remains were then placed in the Basilique Saint-Denis.

Ancestry

Family of Joanna of Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Louis IX of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Robert, Count of Clermont
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Margaret of Provence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Louis I, Duke of Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. John of Burgundy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Beatrix of Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Agnes of Dampierre
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. John I of Avesnes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. John II, Count of Holland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Adelaide of Holland
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Mary of Avesnes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Henry V of Luxembourg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Philippa of Luxembourg
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Margaret of Bar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Joanna of Bourbon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Louis IX of France (= 16)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Philip III of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
25. Margaret of Provence (= 17)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Charles of Valois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. James I of Aragon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Isabella of Aragon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Violant of Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Isabella of Valois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Matilda of Brabant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Mahaut of Châtillon
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. John II, Duke of Brittany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Marie of Brittany
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Beatrice of England
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

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  1. Cox 1967, p. 57.
  2. J. A. Buchon, Collection des Chroniques nationales françaises écrites en langue vulgaire du treizième au seizième siècle, Chroniques de Froissart, Tome VII, Verdière, Libraire, Paris, 1824, p. 61
French royalty
Preceded by Queen consort of France
1364–1378
Succeeded by
Isabeau of Bavaria