Joan II (Auvergne)

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Tomb of Jeanne von Berry in Bourges Cathedral

Johanna II. (Jeanne), known as Johanna von Auvergne, Johanna von Boulogne and Johanna von Berry (* 1378 , † late 1422 , maybe also 1424) was the daughter and heiress of John II , Count of Auvergne and Boulogne , and Eleonore von Comminges , and second wife of Duke Johann von Berry (* 1340, † 1416). She is best known because she saw the life of her nephew, King Charles VI, on the Bal des Ardents . saved.

On June 5, 1389, at the age of eleven, she was married in Riom to Duke Johann von Berry, the 38-year-old son of King John II , after Johann von Berry had become a widower the year before. The marriage remained childless. At the age of 14, on January 28, 1393, she took part in the Bal des Ardents , in which the king was endangered by a fire. Johanna wrapped him in her clothes and protected him from being burned. In 1404 her father died and she inherited Auvergne and Boulogne.

In 1416 Johann von Berry died. Johanna married Georges de La Trémoille , Count of Guînes († 1446) on November 16, 1416 . This marriage also remained without descendants, so that after her death her property went to her cousin Maria von Mongascon and later to her descendants from the La Tour family, which then called itself La Tour d'Auvergne .

literature

  • Detlev Schwennicke (Ed.): European family tables . New episode Volume 3, Part 4: Feudal France and its influence on the world of the Middle Ages. Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989, plate 735.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ In the European Family Tables III.4 (735) Johanna is referred to as “1394 Duchesse d'Auvergne” as her father's heir; This is contradicted by the fact that the Duchy of Auvergne was awarded in 1360 to Johann von Berry , whom she married in 1389, so she was Duchess of Auvergne simply because of her marriage
personal data
SURNAME Joan II
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jeanne of Auvergne; Joan of Boulogne; Joan of Boulogne; Johanna von Berry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne
DATE OF BIRTH 1378
DATE OF DEATH 1422 or 1424