Joan of Navarre

Also known as: Iane / Iane late quéene of England / ladie Iane de Nauarre / quéene Ione · Family: Brittany · Role: duchess · First appears: Henry IV 11

In 1403, Joan of Navarre, duchess of Brittany and widow of John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany, married Henry IV at Winchester: “The king met hir at Winchester, where the seuenth of Februarie, the marriage was solemnized betwixt them.” She later became the late wife of Henry IV and mother-in-law to Henry V.

Around 1419, during the sixth year of Henry V’s reign, Joan was arrested by John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, the king’s lieutenant in his absence, and committed to safe keeping in the castle of Leeds in Kent. It was reported that she and Friar Randoll, who had been her confessor, had conspired by sorcery and necromancy to destroy Henry V.

Relationship record

Life events

• 1403 · Henry IV married Joan of Navarre at Winchester.(Henry IV 11 · 📍 Winchester)
  • With: Henry IV
  • “The king met hir at Winchester, where the seuenth of Februarie, the marriage was solemnized betwixt them.”
• c. 1419 · John Plantagenet, Duke of Bedford arrested Joan of Navarre and committed her to safe keeping.(Henry V 23 · 📍 castell of Léeds in Kent)
  • With: John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford
  • “quéene Ione late wife of king Henrie the fourth, and mother in law to this king, was arrested by the duke of Bedford the kings lieutenant in his absence, and by him committed to safe kéeping in the castell of Léeds in Kent”

Henry IV 11

• married with Henry IV “The king met hir at Winchester, where the seuenth of Februarie, the marriage was solemnized betwixt them.”
• married with John de Montfort, Duke of Brittany “the duches of Britaine, the ladie Iane de Nauarre, the widow of Iohn de Montford, late duke of Britaine, surnamed the conqueror”

Henry IV 28

• married with Henry IV “by his last wife Iane, he had no children”

Henry V 23

• with Henry V (Joan is identified as Henry V's mother-in-law.) “quéene Ione late wife of king Henrie the fourth, and mother in law to this king”
• with John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford (Bedford arrested and imprisoned Joan.) “quéene Ione late wife of king Henrie the fourth, and mother in law to this king, was arrested by the duke of Bedford the kings lieutenant in his absence, and by him committed to safe kéeping”
• enemies with Friar Randoll (The reported conspiracy links Randoll and Joan against Henry V.) “It was reported that he had conspired with the quéene by sorcerie and necromancie to destroie the king.”
• married with Henry IV “quéene Ione late wife of king Henrie the fourth, and mother in law to this king”
• with Henry V (Joan of Navarre was Henry V's mother-in-law.) “quéene Ione late wife of king Henrie the fourth, and mother in law to this king”
• with Friar Randoll (Friar Randoll had been Joan of Navarre's confessor.) “that professed diuinitie, and had béene confessor to the same quéene”
• enemies with Henry V “It was reported that he had conspired with the quéene by sorcerie and necromancie to destroie the king.”

Henry VI 26

• married with Henry IV “Iane late quéene of England, and before duchesse of Britaine, daughter to the king of Nauarre, and wife to king Henrie the fourth, died at the manor of Hauering, and was buried by hir husband at Canturburie”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.