Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (; 1287/88 – 21 January 1330), was Queen of France by marriage to Philip V of France; she was also ruling Countess of Burgundy from 1303 to 1330 and ruling Countess of Artois in 1329–1330.

Biography

Coat of Arms of Joan II and Blanche of Burgundy as Queens Consort of Navarre

Joan, born /88, was the eldest daughter and heiress of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, and Mahaut, Countess of Artois. She married

Philip Philip, also Phillip, is a male name derived from the Macedonian Old Koine language, Greek (''Philippos'', lit. "horse-loving" or "fond of horses"), from a compound of (''philos'', "dear", "loved", "loving") and (''hippos'', "horse"). Prominen ...

, the second son of King

Philip IV of France Philip IV (April–June 1268 – 29 November 1314), called Philip the Fair (), was King of France from 1285 to 1314. Jure uxoris, By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre, he was also King of Navarre and Count of Champagne as Philip&n ...

, on 21 January 1307. At the beginning of 1314, Joan's sister Blanche and her sister-in-law

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were convicted of adultery with two

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s, upon the testimony of their sister-in-law Isabella, in the

Tour de Nesle affair The Tour de Nesle affair was a scandal amongst the French royal family in 1314, during which Margaret of Burgundy, Queen of France, Margaret, Blanche of Burgundy, Blanche, and Joan II, Countess of Burgundy, Joan, the daughters-in-law of Philip IV ...

. Joan was thought to have known of the affairs, and was placed under house arrest at Dourdan as punishment. She was cleared, by parliament, and released following the death of King Philip IV.

Queen

With the death of King John I of France in 1316, Joan's husband became King Philip V of France and she became

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Countess of Burgundy and Artois

Upon her father's death in 1303, with her only brother

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disinherited by the Treaty of Vincennes (1295), the County of Burgundy was inherited by Joan under the regency of her mother. When she married in 1307, her mother continued to govern her domains for her during her absence. After her husband's death in 1322, Joan lived in her own domains. After Joan's beloved sister, Blanche, died in 1326, she was said to be "so sorrowful as never before she had been." In 1329, she inherited her mother's County of Artois.

Death

Joan died at Roye-en-Artois, on 21 January 1330, and was buried at Cordeliers Convent in Paris. Her titles were inherited by her eldest daughter, Joan III, who had married Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, in 1318. With Joan II's death, the County and Duchy of Burgundy became united through this marriage. The Counties of Burgundy and Artois were eventually inherited by her younger daughter Margaret in 1361. Joan left provision in her will for the founding of a college in Paris; it was named ''Collège de Bourgogne'', "Burgundy College."

Issue

Joan and

had: # Joan (1/2 May 1308 – 10/15 August 1349), Countess of Burgundy and Artois in her own right and wife of Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy #

(1309 – 9 May 1382), wife of Louis I of Flanders # Isabelle (1310 – April 1348), wife of Guigues VIII de La Tour du Pin, Dauphin de Viennois. # Blanche (1313 – 26 April 1358), a nun # Louis (d. 1317)

In fiction

Joan (as Jeanne) is a character in '' Les Rois maudits'' (''The Accursed Kings''), a series of French

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s by Maurice Druon. She was portrayed by Catherine Rich in the 1972 French

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adaptation of the series, and by Julie Depardieu in the 2005 adaptation.

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* * * * * , - , - {{Authority control 1280s births 1330 deaths Year of birth uncertain Joan Counts of Burgundy Joan II Navarrese royal consorts Queens consort of France Place of birth missing 14th-century French suo jure nobility 14th-century countesses regnant Burials at the Basilica of Saint-Denis Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire