Joan II of Navarre

1311–1349

Joan II of Navarre was queen of Navarre and daughter of Louis X of France. Excluded from the French succession, she retained her claim to Navarre and became important in the dynastic settlement after the end of the direct Capetian line.

Maurice Druon’s The Royal Succession places Joan II of Navarre within a narrative shaped by court politics and dynastic power, political ambition and government, and religion, belief and institutional authority.

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The Accursed Kings in Order

by Maurice Druon 7 books 4.2

The Accursed Kings follows the French and English monarchies from the final year of Philip IV's reign in 1314 to the capture of John II at Poitiers and the political crisis of the late 1350s. Across seven novels, the direct Capetian line fails, the Valois dynasty takes the…

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