Joan of Ponthieu, Dame of Epernon
Joan of Ponthieu | |
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Catherine de Vendôme | |
Father | Jean II de Ponthieu, Count of Aumale |
Mother | Catherine d'Artois |
Jeanne de Ponthieu, dame d'Épernon,
Early life
Joan was born in France sometime before 1336, the youngest daughter of
She had an elder sister, Blanche de Ponthieu (before 1326 – 12 April/May 1387) who became suo jure Countess of Aumale on 16 January 1340 upon the death of their father. Joan inherited the title and realm Dame d'Épernon after her father in 1343. The seigneury of Épernon was part of her father's inheritance which came into his family about 1256 upon the marriage of his grandmother Laure de Montfort, Dame d'Épernon to the Infante Ferdinand of Castile, Count of Aumale.
Countess regent
On an unknown date sometime before 1351, Joan married Jean VI de Vendôme, Count of Vendôme and of Castres, Seigneur de Lézingnan-en-Narbonnois, and de Brétencourt of the
In 1362, the castle and town of Vendôme were plundered by the Anglo-Gascon troops of Captain Robert Marcault, and Joan was taken prisoner. She was later ransomed. In 1367, she ordered that the walls of the castle were to be strengthened, and personally superintended the fortifications.
Upon the death of her husband in February 1364 at Montpellier, Joan's son Bouchard became Count of Vendôme and of Castres. When he died in 1371, the titles passed to his infant daughter, Jeanne. Joan de Ponthieu acted as regent for her granddaughter from 1371 until the latter's death in 1372.
Joan died on 30 May 1376 at about the age of 40. The titles were inherited by Catherine, the only surviving child of Joan of Ponthieu. Catherine held the titles jointly with her husband until 1393, then with her second eldest son Louis, Count of Vendôme.
Issue
Joan married Jean VI de Vendôme, Count of Vendôme and of Castres. Jean and Joan together had:
- Bouchard VII de Vendôme, Count of Vendôme and Castres (c. 1351 – 16 November 1371), married, in 1368, Isabelle de Bourbon, by whom he had one daughter, Joan, Countess of Vendôme and of Castres who died in 1372.
- Catherine de Vendôme (1354 – 1 April 1412), suo jure Countess of Vendôme and of Castres. On 28 September 1364 in Paris, she married John I, Count of La Marche[1]
References
- ^ de Salazar y Acha 2006, p. 95.
Sources
- de Salazar y Acha, Jaime (2006). Manual de genealogía española (in Spanish). Instituto Salaza y Castro.