Jeanne de Divion

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1861 illustration of Jeanne de Divion from Histoire de la prostitution chez tous les peuples du monde: depuis l'antiquité la plus reculée jusqu'à nos jours

Jeanne de Divion (c. 1293 – 6 October 1331) was a French forger.

Jeanne was the daughter of the impoverished noble Havet de Divion and Sara Louchard, and married the knight Pierre de Broyes.

Mahaut of Artois, paid the inheritance but later challenged it as being based on an adulterous liaison with a bishop, and obtained the restitution.[1]

In 1331, Countess Mahaut's nephew

In fiction

Jeanne de Divion is a minor character in

French miniseries adaptation of the series, and by Sophie Broustal [fr] in the 2005 adaptation.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Véron, Louis Désiré (1839). Revue de Paris (in French). pp. 192–207.
  2. ^ Vivent, Jacques (1954). La Guerre de Cent Ans (The Hundred Years War) (in French). p. 47.
  3. ^ "Les Rois maudits: Casting de la saison 1" (in French). AlloCiné. 2005. Archived from the original on 19 December 2014. Retrieved 25 July 2015.

Further reading

  • Chareyron, Nicolas; Le Bel, Jean (1996). Le Maître de Froissart, Grand Imagier de la guerre de Cent Ans (in French). De Boeck Université.