Joan of France, Duchess of Bourbon
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Joan of France, Duchess of Bourbon (French: Jeanne de Valois; 4 May 1435 – 1482), also known as Joan of Valois, was the seventh child and fourth daughter of Charles VII of France and Marie of Anjou. She was the original owner of the book of hours of Joan of France, now held in the Bibliothèque nationale de France, which is classified as a national treasure of France.[1]
Book of hours of Joan of France
The book of hours, known by medieval scholars as livre d'heures de Jeanne de France, was given by King Charles VII to his daughter Joan to celebrate the occasion of her marriage to John II, Duke of Bourbon in 1452.[1] The coat of arms of Joan of France appears on seven pages (including the cover) within the tome, alongside miniatures and decorations in the margins.[2]
Life
Born into the House of Valois, a Cadet branch of the Capetian Dynasty, Joan of France was the second daughter of King Charles VII of France and Marie of Anjou.[3][4] Her parents were second cousins and both great-grandchildren of King John II of France.[5]
Joan's paternal grandfather was King Charles VI of France, referred as "Charles the Mad" due to his history of psychotic episodes.[6]
Joan's maternal grandmother was
In 1447, she married John II, Duke of Bourbon, at Château de Moulins; however they had no surviving children.[3]
References
- ^ a b "Horae ad usum parisiensem [known as Hours of Joan of France]". archivesetmanuscrits.bnf.fr (in Latin). 1452.
- JSTOR 3048537.
- ^ a b Morrison & Hedeman 2010, p. 5.
- ^ Debris, Cyrille (2005). "Tu Felix Austria, nube" la dynastie de Habsbourg et sa politique matrimoniale à la fin du Moyen Age (XIIIe–XVIe siècles) (in French). Brepols.
- OL28605946M.
- ^ Earenfight, Theresa (2013). Queenship in Medieval Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.
- ISBN 978-1-137-49912-7
Sources
- Morrison, Elizabeth; Hedeman, Anne Dawson (2010). Imagining the Past in France: History in Manuscript Painting, 1250-1500. J. Paul Getty Museum.
Further reading
- Media related to Heures de Jeanne de France - BNF NAL3244 at Wikimedia Commons.
- Digitisation of the entire book.