Joan of Évreux

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox royalty Joan of Évreux (Template:Langx; 1310 – 4 March 1371) was Queen of France and Navarre as the third wife of King Charles IV of France.Template:Sfn

Life

She was the daughter of Louis, Count of ÉvreuxTemplate:Sfn and Margaret of Artois. Because Joan was Charles's first cousin,Template:Sfn the couple required papal permission to marry, which they obtained from Pope John XXII.Template:Sfn They had three daughters, Jeanne, Marie and Blanche,Template:Sfn who were unable to inherit the throne under principles of Salic law. The royal couple's lack of sons caused the end of the direct line of the Capetian dynasty.Template:Sfn

Joan died on 4 March 1371Template:Sfn in her château at Brie-Comte-Robert, in the Île-de-France region, some twenty miles southeast of Paris. She was buried at the Basilica of St Denis,Template:Sfn the necropolis of the Kings of France.

Legacy

Two of Joan's remarkable possessions survive: her book of hours and a statue of the Virgin and Child.Template:Sfn The Book of Hours, known as the Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux, is in The Cloisters collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.Template:Sfn It was commissioned from the artist Jean Pucelle between 1324 and 1328, probably as a gift from her husband.Template:Sfn The book contains the usual prayers of the canonical hours as arranged for the laity along with the notable inclusion of the office dedicated to St Louis, her great-grandfather. The small statue of the Virgin and Child (gilded silver and enamel, 69 cm high), which Jeanne left to the monastery of St Denis outside Paris, is in the Louvre Museum.Template:Sfn

Sources

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External links

• The Hours of Jeanne d'Evreux at the Cloisters

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