Johanna of Durazzo

Johanna von Durazzo ( Italian Giovanna di Durazzo ; * 1344 ; † July 20, 1387 in Naples ) was a Duchess of Durazzo from the older house of Anjou from 1348 to 1368 .

Johanna was the eldest daughter of Duke Karl von Durazzo and Maria of Calabria, a younger sister of Queen Joan I of Naples . She was engaged to her cousin Karl Martell in 1347, a son of Queen Johanna and her first husband Andreas of Hungary . In 1348 Johanna's father was beheaded by the Hungarian King Ludwig I , because he had made him responsible for the murder of Andrew of Hungary. Her fiancé was abducted to Hungary, where he died at a young age.

Johanna lived mainly in Naples and did not care about her duchy, which was besieged for the first time from 1362 to 1363 by the Albanian tribes under Karl Thopia . A second attempt in 1367 succeeded and took the city. Joan's first husband, Louis of Navarre , Count of Beaumont-le-Roger , attempted to retake Durazzo but died in the preparations in 1372. Johanna married Robert d'Artois in 1376 . His father, Count Jean d'Artois-Eu , died in 1387. But before Robert and Johanna could be informed about it, they fell victim to a poison attack by their younger sister Margarethe in the Castell dell'Ovo .

Web links

Material collection at genealogie-mittelalter.de

Individual evidence

↑ Konrad Clewing, Holm Sundhaussen: Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe , 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-78667-2 , p. 54.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl	Duke of Durazzo 1348–1368	-

personal data
SURNAME	Johanna of Durazzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Giovanna di Durazzo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Duchess of Durazzo
DATE OF BIRTH	1344
DATE OF DEATH	July 20, 1387
Place of death	Naples

[1] Konrad Clewing, Holm Sundhaussen: Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe , 2nd edition, Böhlau Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-205-78667-2 , p. 54.