Jeanne d\' Évreux

Jeanne d' Évreux , born towards 1307, deceased the March 4th 1371 with Brie-Count-Robert, queen of France, girl of Louis d' Évreux and Marguerite d' Artois, grand-daughter of the king Philippe III and Marie of the Brabant.

Biography

Being the German cousin of the king, it profits from the kindness of the French pope Jean XXII, which delivers the exemption necessary to Charles IV, so that it can become, on July 13rd 1325, its third wife. She is crowned queen on May 11th 1326 with the the Ste Chapelle.

She initially puts at the world, in 1326, a girl, Jeanne. The following year, it is confined of one second girl, Marie. Again pregnant to died of the king, on February 1st 1328, thus prolonging uncertainty as for a male succession, it will give finally birth, on April 1st, 1328, with a third girl, Blanche; what will put an end to the dynasty direct Capétiens for the Valois, under the terms of the Salic law.

It was lady of Brie Count Robert, where it deceased in its castle in 1371.

Patronage

Amateur of works of art, it is known for the Livre of Hours ordered from his intention by Charles IV and enluminé by Jean Pucelle, and for several invaluable objects offered by it in 1339 to the abbey of Saint-Denis: two statues of the Virgin , a mounting known as of the Ste Chapelle, a gold statue of holy Jean and a royal crown.

Most remarkable, the Virgin of Jeanne d' Évreux , is a gilded money statuette, one of rare testimonys of the great Parisian orfevery of the beginning of the 14th century and one of the first accomplished examples of the new type of the Vierge with the Child , in personal matter and close friend.

Jeanne d' Évreux is one of the first characters to be itself troubled about sound living to make carry out by an artist the Gisant of her future tomb.

See too

Dynasty capétienne

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