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queen of France
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Also known as: Jeanne de Navarre, Joan of Navarre
Byname:
Joan of Navarre
French:
Jeanne de Navarre
Born:
January 14, 1273, Bar-sur-Seine, France
Died:
April 2, 1305, Vincennes (aged 32)
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Joan I (born January 14, 1273, Bar-sur-Seine, France—died April 2, 1305, Vincennes) was the queen of Navarre (as Joan I, from 1274), queen consort of Philip IV (the Fair) of France (from 1285), and mother of three French kings—Louis X, Philip V, and Charles IV.

Joan was the sole daughter and heir of Henry I, king of Navarre, her brother Theobald (Thibaut) having died at an early age. She married (August 16, 1284) the future Philip IV, thus bringing to the French crown her rights to Navarre and the countships of Champagne and Brie. On her death in childbirth in 1305 these rights were transmitted to her son, the future Louis X. Joan was a woman of great intelligence and vivacity, a lover of arts and letters who founded the famous college of Navarre.

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