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The marriage was annuled when Louis became King (1498) and sought to marry Anne of Brittany in order to annex the Duchy of Brittany to the French kingdom. Jeanne was made duchess of Berry and dedicated her life to the church, founding the Order of the Annonciades. Beatified in 1743 and canonised in 1950 as St Jeanne de Valois
French duchess (1319-1384) Jeanne la boiteuse, duchesse de Bretagne, dame de Mayenne1, d'Avaugour, de l'Aigle et de Châtelaudren, comtesse de Penthièvr de Bretagne (Penthièvre) aka de Penthièvre (est. 1319 - certain 10 Sep 1384)
Kingdom of France (910-1593) The Duchy of Brittany ( Breton: Dugelezh Breizh, [dyˈɡɛːlɛs ˈbrɛjs]; French: Duché de Bretagne) was a medieval feudal state that existed between approximately 939 [a] and 1547. [b] Its territory covered the northwestern peninsula of Europe, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, and the English Channel ...
Lady Joan Holland (1350 – October 1384) was Duchess of Brittany as the second wife of John IV, Duke of Brittany. She was the daughter of Joan of Kent and Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent. Her mother's second husband was Edward the Black Prince, and the child of that marriage was King Richard II of England . Joan Holland's marriage to John IV ...
Joan had lost the ducal title and powers of Brittany for her descendants, and despite attempts to reclaim the ducal crown this loss was permanent. However, her descendants were appointed from time to time to high administrative posts in Brittany under the future kings of France.
Oct 25, 2022 · Jones, Michael. “Between France and England: Jeanne de Navarre, duchess of Brittany and queen of England (1386-1437).” In Between France and England: Politics, Power and Society in Late Medieval Brittany, 1-23. Aldershot: Variorum, 2003. Myers, A.R. "The Captivity of a Royal Witch: The Household Accounts of Queen Joan of Navarre, 1419-21."
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan, Duchess of Brittany has received more than 66,766 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019) . Joan, Duchess of Brittany is the 7,572nd most popular politician (up from 7,616th in 2019) , the 2,266th most popular biography from France (up ...
