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Joanna of Flanders (c.
1295 – September
1374), also known as
Jehanne de Montfort was consort
Duchess of Brittany by her marriage to
John IV, Duke of Brittany. She was the daughter of
Louis, Count of Nevers and
Jeanne of Rethel and the sister of Count
Louis I of Flanders.
She married Duke John IV in March
1329. When her husband died in
1345 in the midst of the
Breton War of Succession, she took arms to protect the rights of her son
John V, Duke of Brittany against the party led by
Charles of Blois and
Joanna of Dreux. She organized resistance and made use of diplomatic means to protect her family. In the siege of
Hennebont, she took up arms and, dressed in armour, conducted the defence of the town, urging the women to "cut their skirts and take their safety in their own hands". She even led a raid of knights outside the walls that successfully destroyed one of the enemy's rear camps.
Joanna's forces captured Charles of Blois in battle, but fortune turned against the Duchess as, her son John still a minor, she succumbed to madness and died in confinement. Her foe Charles was canonised after his death, leading historian
Barbara Tuchman to comment on the equivalency between insanity and sainthood in the Middle Ages.
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