Joan of Évreux

Joan of Évreux (1310–1371), daughter of Louis, Count of Évreux, and Margaret of Artois, became the third wife of her cousin Charles IV of France in 1324. She bore three daughters but no son, and Salic law barred the daughters from the throne, so when Charles died in 1328 the direct Capetian line ended and the crown passed to the Valois.

Her book of hours, illuminated by Jean Pucelle, and her silver-gilt Virgin and Child are masterpieces of French Gothic art; Joan left the statue to the abbey of Saint-Denis. She died on 4 March 1371 at her château of Brie-Comte-Robert and was buried at Saint-Denis.