Jeanne de Valois (1294-1352)

See also: Jeanne de Valois

Jeanne de Valois , (born in 1294 - died the March 7th 1352), princess of royal blood, girl of Charles of France, count de Valois, and of Marguerite of Anjou.

Back-small-girl of Saint Louis, niece of Philippe IV Beautiful the, sister of the king de France Philippe VI of Valois, it marries Guillaume I {{er}} of Avesnes (1286 † 1337), count de Hainaut, of Holland and of Zealand, the May 19th 1305 with Chauny (Aisne). They had seven children:

  • Jean, died in 1316
  • Guillaume II (1307 † 1345), count de Hainaut, of Holland and Zealand
  • Marguerite (1310 † 1356), countess of Hainaut, Holland and Zealand, married to Louis IV of Bavaria, Germanic Roman Emperor
  • Philippa (1311 † 1369), married in 1328 with Edouard III of England
  • Jeanne (1315 † 1374), married in 1334 with Guillaume V (1315 † 1362), duke of Juliers
  • Agnes
  • Isabelle (1323 † 1361), married in 1354 in Robert de Namur (1323 † 1391), lord of Beaufort-on-Meuse.
  • Louis (1325 † 1328)

It becomes Dame of Maing in 1322 and will go several times in its village.

With died of her husband in 1337, it becomes nun and is withdrawn within the Cistercian abbey of Fontenelle, close to Maing, where join his/her daughter Isabelle de Namur and her Anne grand-daughter of Bavaria.

Ram of a great richness of heart, it intervenes to preserve Hainaut and to attenuate the disasters of the Franco-English conflict which begins. In 1339, Jeanne de Valois receives her son-in-law the king d' Angleterre Edouard III with the abbey of Fontenelle and tries to alleviate the spirits. It goes to Paris near her brother the king of France Philippe VI, also meets with Ghent her daughter Philippa. By the Peace of Turned obtains a truce of the hostilities.

She died in the abbey of Fontenelle the March 7th 1352. She was buried in the chorus of the Ladies.

Its vault was redécouvert at the time of the archaeological excavations of 1977. She rests from now on in the right transept of the church of Maing, where she was reinterred the September 7th 2001. Source: site of the association of safeguard of the inheritance maingeois: http://perso.orange.fr/maing.aspm/

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