Joan of Bourbon

Joan of Bourbon
Engraving of Joanna of Bourbon from a statue
Queen consort of France
Tenure	1364–1378
Spouse	Charles V of France
Issue
Charles VI of France Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans Catherine of Valois
House	House of Bourbon House of Valois
Father	Peter I, Duke of Bourbon
Mother	Isabella of Valois
Born	3 February 1338 Vincennes, France
Died	6 February 1278 (aged 40) Paris, France
Burial	Basilique Saint-Denis

Joan of Bourbon (French: Jeanne de Bourbon; Vincennes, 3 February 1338 – Paris, 6 February 1378) was consort to Charles V of France. Joanna was a daughter of Peter I, Duke of Bourbon and Isabella of Valois, a half-sister of Philip VI of France as the daughter of Charles of Valois and his third wife Mahaut of Chatillon.

Family

Coronation of Joanna

Joan gave birth to nine children but only Charles and Louis survived. Five of her children: Joan, John, Marie, Isabella and Catherine survived infancy but died in childhood. Her maternal aunts were Blanche of Valois and Marie of Valois, Blanche married Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor and was the mother of Katharine of Bohemia. Marie married Charles, Duke of Calabria and was the mother of Joan I of Naples.

Joan's father, Peter was killed while at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356, her mother, Isabella died in 1388, she had outlived Joan by ten years.

Biography

Her father, grandfather, and brother were all somewhat mentally unstable, and Joan seems to have inherited this family ailment. She suffered a complete nervous breakdown after the birth of her seventh child. Her eldest surviving son, Charles VI, was famous for his insanity. From her marriage to Charles V of France (1350, Tain-en-Viennois) were born nine children:

1. Joan (1357–1360)
2. John (1359–1364)
3. Bonne (1360)
4. John (1366)
5. Charles VI of France (1368–1422) King of France
6. Marie (1370–1377)
7. Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans (1372–1407) Duke of Orleans
8. Isabelle (1373–1378)
9. Catherine (1378–1388) married John of Berry

Death and burial

Joan died while giving birth to her youngest child, Catherine. While Joan was heavily pregnant with Catherine she wished to have a bath but the doctors told her of the dangers, Joan ignored them and had a bath anyway. Soon later she went into labour and died giving birth. The king was very upset with the death of Joan and never really was the same after her death. Her heart was buried in the convent of the Cordeliers and her entrails in the Church of the Celestines in Paris. The rest of her remains were then placed in the Basilique Saint-Denis.

Ancestry

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