In 1421 Queen Joan II of Naples, who had no children, adopted and named him as heir to the Kingdom of Naples, and Alfonso went to Naples.

Without Salic Law, upon the death of John I, the crown would have passed to his half-sister, Joan ( later Joan II of Navarre ).

* 1321 – Joan of The Tower, Scottish wife of David II of Scotland ( d. 1362 )

William later married Jadwiga's cousin and rival, Joan II of Naples.

13th-century depiction of Henry II of England | Henry II and John's siblings: ( l to r ) William IX, Count of Poitiers | William, Henry the Young King | Henry, Richard I of England | Richard, Matilda of England, Duchess of Saxony | Matilda, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany | Geoffrey, Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile | Eleanor, Joan of England, Queen of Sicily | Joan and John

Joan married Alexander II of Scotland to become his queen consort.

* 1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II ( b. 1210 )

Relationships with the royal family remained cold under Joan II ; However, when Raimondello's son Giannantonio ( 1386 – 1453 ) sent his troops to help her against the usurpation attempt of James of Bourbon, he received in exchange the Principality of Taranto.

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Rosemary and Darroll Pardoe, authors of The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope Joan, theorize that if a female pope did exist, a more plausible time frame is 1086 and 1108, when there were several Antipopes ; during this time the reign of the legitimate Popes Victor III, Urban II, and Paschal II was not always established in Rome, since the city was occupied by Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, and later sacked by the Normans.

In exchange for the recognition of Joan II of Naples, Martin obtained the restitution of Benevento, several fiefs in the Kingdom of Naples for his relatives and, above all, an agreement that Muzio Attendolo, then hired by the Neapolitans, should leave Rome.

He was also an elder brother of Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany ; Leonora of England, Queen of Castile ; Joan of England ; and John, Count of Mortain, who succeeded him as king.

Joan Pujol Garcia ( Catalan ; ), MBE ( 14 February 1912 – 10 October 1988 ) deliberately became a double agent during World War II, known by the British codename and the German codename.

* Joan of the Tower ( 1321 – 1362 ) aka Joan of England, was the first wife and Queen consort of David II of Scotland.

** Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II of Scotland ( b. 1210 )

When Sforza also abandoned Louis, Alfonso seemed to have all his problems solved ; however, his relationship with Joan suddenly worsened, and in May 1423 he had her lover, and a powerful figure in the Neapolitan court, Gianni Caracciolo, arrested.

Alfonso tried to regain the favour of the queen, but failed, and had to wait for the death of both Louis ( at Cosenza in 1434 ) and Joan herself ( February 1435 ).

It stipulated that a brother of King Louis was to marry Joan of Toulouse, daughter of Raymond VII of Toulouse, and so in 1237 Alphonse married her.

The Hungarian knight army had its golden age under King Louis the Great, who himself was a famed warrior and conducted successful campaigns in Italy due to family matters ( his younger brother married Joan I, Queen of Naples who murdered him later.

He also had a role in the Hungarian invasion of the Kingdom of Naples, namely a papal fief ; the contest between Louis I of Hungary and Joan I of Naples, accused to have ordered the assassination of the former's brother, was ended in 1352 by a trial held in Avignon, by which she was acquitted from any charge.

* October 6 – Joan II of Navarre, daughter of Louis X of France ( b. 1311 )

** Joan II of Navarre, daughter of King Louis X of France ( d. 1349 )

Her parents were King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre ; her brothers Louis, Philip and Charles became kings of France.

One son of King Louis VIII of France " the Lion ", Alphonse, Count of Poitou, married the heiress of the Count of Toulouse, Joan.

The principal squares of Reims include the Place Royale, with a statue of Louis XV, and the Place Cardinal-Luçon, with an equestrian statue of Joan of Arc.

He strengthened his position by marrying Joan of France, daughter of Louis X.

The throne of Navarre went its separate way, to Joan of France, daughter of Louis X, who became Joan II of Navarre.

It also holds works by a wide range of influential European and American artists including Georges Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Frankenthaler, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Edward Hopper, Paul Klee, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Dorothea Lange, Fernand Léger, Roy Lichtenstein, Morris Louis, René Magritte, Aristide Maillol, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, Kenneth Noland, Georgia O ' Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Auguste Rodin, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Frank Stella, and hundreds of others.

* France – Saint Louis IX, Saint Martin of Tours, Joan of Arc

Louis accordingly tried to break the two apart, by offering the hand of his elder daughter, Anne, to Charles, that of his younger daughter, Joan, to Edward's youngest brother, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and that of his brother-in-law, Philip of Bresse, to Margaret.

Starring Joan Fontaine, Louis Jourdan, Mady Christians and Marcel Journet, it was directed by Max Ophüls.

It was his uncle who ascended the throne at the expense of his four-year-old half-sister, Joan, daughter of Louis X and Margaret of Burgundy.

Since his father was first cousin to King Philip VI of France and his mother Joan II of Navarre was the only child of King Louis X, Charles of Navarre was ' born of the fleur de lys on both sides ', as he liked to point out, but he succeeded to a shrunken inheritance as far as his French lands were concerned.

Philip rose to the regency with support of the French magnates, following the pattern set up by Philip V's succession over his niece Joan II of Navarre, and Charles IV's succession over all his nieces, including the daughters of Louis X and Philip V. A century later this pattern became the Salic law, which forbade females and those descended in the female line from succeeding to the throne.

Philip, however, was not entitled to that inheritance ; the rightful heiress was Louis X's surviving daughter, the future Joan II of Navarre, the heir general of Joan I of Navarre.

In July, 1313, Philip married Joan the Lame (), daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy, and of Agnes of France, the youngest daughter of Louis IX.

In 1476, Louis XI ( the " Spider King ") forced Louis ( his second cousin ) to marry his pious daughter Joan of France ( 1464 – 1505 ).

A 13th-century depiction of John and his legitimate children, ( l to r ) Henry III of England | Henry, Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall | Richard, Isabella of England | Isabella, Eleanor of Leicester | Eleanor, and Joan of England, Queen consort of Scotland | Joan

His second son, Raimondello Orsini del Balzo, supported Charles III ' coup d ' état in Naples against Queen Joan I.

" It also changes the date from the 11th to the 9th century, indicating that Joan reigned between Leo IV and Benedict III in the 850s.

* Joan of Arc and Richard III: sex, saints, and government in the Middle Ages by Charles T. Wood ( Oxford University Press ) ( ISBN 0-19-506951-X )

* May 12 – Charles of Durazzo executes the imprisoned Joan I of Naples and succeeds her as Charles III of Naples.

* Eleanor of Castile ( 1241 – 1290 ), queen consort England, wife of Edward I, daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile and Joan, Countess of Ponthieu

Under this treaty, Isabella's daughter Joan would marry David Bruce ( heir apparent to the Scottish throne ) and Edward III would renounce any claims on Scottish lands, in exchange for the promise of Scottish military aid against any enemy except the French, and £ 20, 000 in compensation for the raids across northern England.

Philippa was born in Valenciennes, county of Hainaut, in the Low Countries, a daughter of William I, Count of Hainaut, nicknamed the Good, and Joan of Valois, the granddaughter of Philip III of France.

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Descendants of this marriage included Henry Beaufort, Bishop of Winchester and eventually Cardinal ; Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, grandmother of Kings Edward IV and Richard III ; John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, the great-grandfather of King Henry VII ; and Joan Beaufort, Queen of Scots, from whom are descended, beginning in 1437, all subsequent sovereigns of Scotland, and successively, from 1603 on, the sovereigns of England, of Great Britain and Ireland, and of the United Kingdom to the present day.

" Edward gained permission for the marriage from Pope Innocent VI and absolution for marriage to a blood-relative ( as had Edward III when marrying Philippa of Hainault, his second cousin ) and married Joan on 10 October 1361 at Windsor Castle.

They based their claim on the Salic law, which excluded females ( Joan II of Navarre ) as well as male descendants through the distaff line ( Edward III of England ), from the succession to the French throne.

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Joan Miró, Blue I, Bleu II | Blue II, and Blue III, 1961, triptych in October 2010, Centre Pompidou-Metz museum, Metz, France.

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They had a daughter, Joan ( Giovanna ), who married to John III the Good, duke of Brittany.

Joan Beaufort was the grandmother of Edward IV of England and Richard III of England, whom Henry VII defeated to take the throne.

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After Joan died in 1348, Philip married Blanche of Navarre, daughter of Joan II and Philip III of Navarre, on 11 January 1350.