Joanna of Châtillon

Joanna of Châtillon

Joanna of Châtillon (or "Joan", _fr. Jeanne; died 16 January 1354) was the wife of Walter V of Brienne (1306) and duchess of Athens by marriage (1308–1311). She was the daughter of Gaucher de Porcien, Constable of France.

Walter was killed in the Battle of Halmyros against the Catalan Company. Joanna may have tried to hold the Acropolis of Athens against them, but eventually surrendered it. [The "Libre de los fechos" indicates that "la muller del dicho duch" [Walter] "qui era muerto con un su fiio, & alli" [there, meaning Athens] "se defendió por un tiempo".] She returned with her son Walter II to France, though her retainers continued to possess Argos and Nauplia under Walter of Foucherolles.

In April 1318, Joanna and her father sent a request to the Republic of Venice seeking money and ships for knights and infantry to Negroponte or Nauplia. The request, however, was refused, as the Briennist vassals in Greece had turned to the Catalans in the meanwhile. As late as the next year, however, Walter of Foucherolles was still commanding his vessels in the Argolid to remain loyal to Joanna and the young Walter. By constant petition to the King of Naples, the King of France, and the Pope, Joanna kept her claim to Athens alive for her son until he was old enough to campaign for his rights in the Aegean. In January 1321, Philip V of France mediated the suit brought against her by her own son, who was suing for the payment of some of his father's great debt.

Joanna herself retained her ducal title until her death. Her tomb, in the church of Saint Jacobin in Troyes has the inscription "Duchess d'Athènes".

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References

*Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) "A History of the Crusades: Volume II — The Later Crusades, 1189 – 1311". Robert Lee Wolff and Harry W. Hazard, editors. University of Wisconsin Press: Milwaukee, 1969.
*Setton, Kenneth M. (general editor) "A History of the Crusades: Volume III — The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries". Harry W. Hazard, editor. University of Wisconsin Press: Madison, 1975.
*Setton, Kenneth M. "Catalan Domination of Athens 1311–1380". Revised edition. Variorum: London, 1975.


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