Joan of Taranto

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Joan of Taranto
Queen consort of Armenia
Died March 1323
Spouse Oshin, King of Armenia
Oshin of Korikos
Issue George of Armenia
Maria, Queen of Armenia
House Capetian House of Anjou
Father Philip I, Prince of Taranto
Mother Thamar Angelina Komnene

Joan of Taranto (died March 1323) was a daughter of Philip I, Prince of Taranto, and his first wife Thamar Angelina Komnene. She was Queen of Armenia by her first marriage. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou.

Early life and family

Joan was possibly born in about 1297, and was the eldest daughter of five children, having had two older brothers, Charles and Philip, and two younger sisters, Margaret, who married Walter VI of Brienne and Blanche, who married Ramon Berenguer of Aragon.

Joan's parents did not have a good relationship: Philip suspected Thamar of acting in her family's interests over his during the two-year conflict that raged between the Capetian House of Anjou and Epirus, despite the fact that she had pawned the remainder of her jewellery to help him pay for the military effort. Distrustful of Thamar, Philip decided to divorce her and in 1309 accused her of having committed adultery. She was forced into confessing that she had had sexual relationships with at least forty of the lords of his court, and that she had formed a particular relationship with Bartolomeo Siginulfo, the Grand Chamberlain of Taranto. Thamar became an outcast, probably never seeing her children again, she either became a nun or was imprisoned by Philip. In either case she died not long afterwards in 1311.

Shortly following her mother's death, Joan acquired a stepmother in Catherine of Valois, who Philip married in July 1313. From this marriage Joan acquired five half-siblings, including Philip II, Prince of Taranto.

Life

In February 1316, Joan married her first husband, Oshin, King of Armenia. Joan was Oshin's third wife, from his first marriage he had had a son Leo. From this marriage she adopted the name Eirene.[1] The couple were only married for four years, in that time they had one child, a son:

  • George (1317 – after 1323), died young

On his death on July 20, 1320, Oshin was succeeded by his minor son Leo (sometimes referred to as Leo V). It was believed that Oshin was poisoned [2]

Soon after Oshin's death, his cousin Oshin of Korikos became regent. He wished to make himself and his family more secure in Armenia. Steps were taken to make this happen; Oshin married Joan, who was forced into the marriage. Oshin married his daughter Alice off to Joan's stepson Leo. Oshin was also probably responsible for the deaths of King Oshin's sister Isabella and two of her sons, in order to remove rival claimants.

Oshin and Joan had one daughter:

Joan died in March 1323, she was outlived by her ill-fated second husband.

Six years after Joan's death, Leo reached majority, he took revenge on his regent. Joan's husband and brother-in-law Constantine, Constable of Armenia and Lord of Lampron, and Leo's wife Alice were all murdered on the king's orders, the head of Oshin being sent to the Ilkhan and of Constantine to Al-Nasr Muhammad.

Ancestry

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Family of Joan of Taranto
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
16. Louis VIII of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
8. Charles I of Naples
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
17. Blanche of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
4. Charles II of Naples
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
18. Raymond Berenguer IV of Provence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
9. Beatrice of Provence
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
19. Beatrice of Savoy
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
2. Philip I, Prince of Taranto
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
20. Béla IV of Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
10. Stephen V of Hungary
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
21. Maria Laskarina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5. Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
22. Köten
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
11. Elisabeth the Cuman
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
23. Mstislawna
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1. Joan of Anjou
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
24. Michael I Komnenos Doukas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
12. Michael II Komnenos Doukas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
6. Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
26. John Petraliphas
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
13. Theodora Petraliphaina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
27. Helena
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
3. Thamar Angelina Komnene
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
28. Andronikos Doukas Komnenos Palaiologos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
14. Ioannes Kantakouzenos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
29. Theodora Angelina Palaiologina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
7. Anna Palaiologina Kantakouzene
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
30. Andronikos Dukas Komnenos Palaiologos
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
15. Eirene Komnene Palaiologina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
31. Theodora Palaiologina
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

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Joan of Taranto
Born: circa. 1297 Died: March 1323
Royal titles
Vacant
Title last held by
Isabelle of Lusignan
Queen consort of Armenia
1316–1320
Vacant
Title next held by
Alice of Korikos