Joan II of Navarre

Joan II (1312–1349) was the only surviving child of Louis X of France, and the crowns that should have been hers went to her uncles. Salic Law passed the throne to Louis's brother Philip V in 1316. When Charles IV died in 1328, the Navarrese expelled the French governor and declared her queen.

Philip VI acknowledged her right to Navarre in exchange for her and her husband Philip of Évreux giving up Champagne and Brie for three counties. They were crowned at Pamplona in 1329 and funded irrigation around Tudela, though they lived mostly in France and left Navarre to governors.

In 1346, she granted Edward III's troops free passage through Angoulême in return for protection of her lands. She died of the Black Death in 1349, and her son Charles II succeeded her.