Joan of Burgundy, Queen of France

Joan of Burgundy, called Joan the Lame (c. 1293–1349), was the daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France. Promised to Philip of Valois in 1303, she married him in July 1313, and when he was crowned Philip VI in 1328 she became the first queen of the House of Valois.

The Hundred Years' War kept the king on campaign, and she governed France as regent several times. The role earned her a bad reputation, sharpened by her lameness, which some took for a curse.

A learned bibliophile, she commissioned French translations such as the Miroir historial. She died on 12 December 1349, probably of the plague, a few months before her son John II became king; her heart was buried at Cîteaux, resting place of the dukes of Burgundy.