Joan of France, Duchess of Berry

Joan of France, Duchess of Berry

Joan of France (French: Jeanne de France, Jeanne de Valois; 23 April 1464 – 4 February 1505), was briefly Queen of France as wife of King Louis XII, in between the death of her brother, King Charles VIII, and the annulment of her marriage. After that, she retired to her domain, where she soon founded the monastic Order of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, where she served as abbess. From this Order later sprang the religious congregation of the Apostolic Sisters of the Annunciation, founded in 1787 to teach the children of the poor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joan of France, Duchess of Berry has received more than 476,386 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Joan of France, Duchess of Berry is the 108th most popular nobleman (up from 109th in 2019), the 593rd most popular biography from France (up from 613th in 2019) and the 21st most popular French Nobleman.

Joan of France, Duchess of Berry was a daughter of King Charles VI of France and Queen Isabeau of Bavaria. She was the wife of John II, Duke of Burgundy. Joan is most famous for being the mother of Charles, Duke of Orléans, who was the father of King Louis XII of France.