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Joan II, Countess of Burgundy

Joan II
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Countess of Burgundy
Reign 1315–1330
Predecessor Robert
Successor Joan III
Countess of Artois
Reign 1329–1330
Predecessor Matilda
Successor Joan III
Queen consort of France and Navarre
Reign 1316–1322
Born (1292-01-15)15 January 1292
Died 21 January 1330(1330-01-21) (aged 38)
Roye-en-Artois
Burial Saint Denis Basilica
Spouse Philip V of France
Issue Joan III, Countess of Burgundy
Margaret I, Countess of Burgundy
Isabelle, Dauphine of Viennois
Blanche of France
House Ivrea
Father Otto IV, Count of Burgundy
Mother Mahaut, Countess of Artois
Religion Roman Catholicism

Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (French: Jeanne; 15 January 1292 – 21 January 1330), was the eldest daughter and heiress of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, and Mahaut, Countess of Artois, and was Queen of France as the wife of Philip V of France.

In the beginning of 1314, Joan's sister Blanche and her sister-in-law Margaret were convicted of adultery with two knights, upon the testimony of their sister-in-law, Isabella in the Tour de Nesle Affair. Joan was thought to have known of the affairs, and was placed under house arrest at Dourdan as punishment. She continued to protest her innocence, as did her husband, who had refused to repudiate her, and by 1315 – through the influence of her mother and husband – her name had been cleared by the Paris Parlement, and she was allowed to return to court.

With the death of King John I of France, her husband became King Philip V of France; Joan became queen consort. She was crowned with her husband at Reims on 9 January 1317.

Her father, the Count of Burgundy, died in 1302, and his titles were inherited by his only legitimate son, Robert. Upon Robert's death in 1315, the County of Burgundy was inherited by Joan. In 1329, she inherited her mother's County of Artois.


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