Jeanne (Joan) DAMMARTIN

Abt 1216 - 1279  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Jeanne (Joan) DAMMARTIN
  Born	Abt 1216	Of, Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France
  Gender	Female
  Buried	1279
  Died	15 Mar 1279	Abbeville, Somme, France
  Alt. Burial	Aft 16 Mar 1279	Argoules, Departement de la Somme, Picardie, France   [1]
  FamilySearch ID	LZD4-722
  Title	[1]
  	Countess of Aumale
  TitleOfNobility	[1]
  	Queen of Castile-Leon
  Name	Joan  [1]
  Name	Joana DE DAMMARTIN  [1]
  Residence	Catedral de Santa Mar?a (1279), Sevilla, Espana   [1]
  _UID	596AD2A9A0184F2C83DF035B3341C6F8631E
  Person ID	I5	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Count Simon DAMMARTIN, II,   b. Abt 1180, Of, Dammartin, Seine-Et-Marne, France ,   d. 21 Sep 1239, Abbeville, Somme, France  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Mother	Countess Marie (Or Jeanne) De PONTHIEU,   b. 17 Apr 1199, Aumale, Seine-Maritime, France ,   d. Sep 1250, Spain  (Age 51 years)
  Married	Sep 1208	Castile, Burgos, Spain
  Family ID	F1925	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	King Fernando Alfonsez "The Saint" CASTILE AND LEON, III,   b. 5 Aug 1201, Castile, Burgos, Spain ,   d. 30 May 1252, Sevilla, Provincia de Sevilla, Andalucia, Spain  (Age 50 years)
  Married	Oct 1237	Castile, Burgos, Spain
  Children	1. Count Fernando,   b. Aft 1239, Burgos, Castile, Spain ,   d. Bef 1269, France  (Age ~ 28 years)   2. Queen Eleanor DE CASTILLE, Queen Consort of England,   b. 1241, Burgos, Burgos, Burgos, Castilla y Le?n, Spain ,   d. 28 Nov 1290, Hereby, Lincolnshire, England  (Age 49 years)   3. Prince Luis,   b. Abt 1242, Burgos, Castile, Spain ,   d. Aft 1269  (Age ~ 28 years)   4. Sim?n DE CASTILLA, y Le?n,   b. Abt 1244, Spain ,   bur. Toledo, Spain   5. Juan,   b. Abt 1246, Burgos, Castile, Spain ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F5	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Jean De NESLE, [Senor De Falvy],   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	May 1260
  Children	1. Jean DE CASTILLE,   b. 1245, Nesle, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France ,   d. 1245  (Age 0 years)   2. Jeanne DE NESLE,   b. 1252, Nesle, Somme, Hauts-de-France, France ,   d. 29 Oct 1280  (Age 28 years)
  Last Modified	30 Dec 2022
  Family ID	F6	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. 1 pg 63, Vol. 2 pg 117, 385 Countess of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale She was born about 1220, and succeeded to Ponthieu in 1251 on her mother's death. His widow, Queen Jeanne, returned to France in October 1254, where she took up residence at Abbeville in Ponthieu. Jeanne was co-heiress in 1259 to her cousin, Mahaut de Dammartin, Countess of Boulogne and Dammartin, by which she inherited the county of Aumale. ========== Foundation for Medieval Genealogy JEANNE de Dammartin ([1220]-Abbeville 16 Mar 1279, bur monastery of Valoires). The De Rebus Hispani? of Rodericus Ximenes names "Mariam?mater Joann? Regin? Castell? et Legionis" as the daughter of "Comitis de Pontivo" and his wife "Adelodis" daughter of "Ludovico Regi Francorum" (and his wife "Elisabeth", an error for Constanza). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to, but does not name, the four daughters of "comes de Pontivo Symon" as the wives of "rex Castelle de Hispanie Fernandus?natu maiorem filius vicecomitis de Castro Araudi?filius comitis de Augo?comes de Roceio". "Symon comes Pontivi et Monstreoli et?Maria comitissa dicte terre" granted "quatuor millaria alectium?annuatim" [four thousand herrings a year] to the nuns of Espaigne, at the request of "primogenite nostre J. ?regine Yspanie et Castelle", by charter dated Aug 1237. It is not known whether the document accords the queen?s title to Jeanne because she was already married or just betrothed at that date. The contract of marriage between "Ferrandi?regis Castelle et Toleti, Legionis et Galicie" and "donna Johanna?socero nostro?comite Pontivi" is noted in a charter dated Jan 1238 (N. S.) issued by Louis IX King of France, which also refers to the king of Castile's letter dated 31 Oct 1237. She succeeded her father as Ctss d'Aum?le in 1239. She succeeded her mother in 1250 as Ctss de Ponthieu. She returned to France after her first husband died[1361]. "Johanna?Castelle [regina]" confirmed a donation to Saint-Vulfran, for the souls of "?bone memorie?regis Castelle et Legionis quondam mariti nostri" and tor the salvation of "nostre et Fernandi?filii nostri primogeniti", by charter dated Aug 1255. "Jehans de Neele cuens de Pontieu de Monsteruel et d?Aubemarle" appointed "la noble dame Jehane?roine de Castele et de Lyon contesse de Pontieu nostre?fame" as his proxy to pursue a claim against the monks of Saint-Sauve by charter dated 17 Oct 1270. The Continuator of Florence of Worcester records the death in 1279 of "regina Hispanie, domina Pontivi, mater Alienor? regin? Angli?". ========== Wiki (2-2014): Joan of Dammartin (French: Jeanne de Dammartin; c.1220 - March 16, 1279) was Queen consort of Castile and Le?n (1252), suo jure Countess of Ponthieu (1251-1279) and Aumale (1237-1279). Her daughter, the English queen Eleanor of Castile, was her successor in Ponthieu. Her son and co-ruler in Aumale, Ferdinand II, Count of Aumale, predeceased her, so she was succeeded by her grandson John I, Count of Aumale, deceased at the Battle of Courtrai, 11 July 1302. Joan was the eldest daughter of Simon of Dammartin, Count of Ponthieu (1180- 21 September 1239) and his wife Marie of Ponthieu, Countess of Montreuil (17 April 1199- 1251). Her paternal grandparents were Alberic II, Count de Dammartin and Mahaut de Clermont, daughter of Renaud de Clermont, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and Cl?mence de Bar. Her maternal grandparents were William IV of Ponthieu and Alys, Countess of the Vexin, daughter of Louis VII of France and Constance of Castile. After secret negotiations were undertaken in 1234, it was agreed that Joan would marry King Henry III of England. This marriage would have been politically unacceptable to the French, however, since Joan stood to inherit not only her mother's county of Ponthieu but also the county of Aumale that was vested in her father's family. Ponthieu bordered on the duchy of Normandy, and Aumale lay within Normandy itself. The French king Philip Augustus had seized Normandy from King John of England as recently as 1205, and Philip's heirs could not risk the English monarchy recovering any land in that area, since it might allow the Plantagenets to re-establish control in Normandy. As it happened, Joan's father Simon had become involved in a conspiracy of northern French noblemen against Philip Augustus and to win pardon from Philip's son Louis VIII, Simon - who had only daughters - was compelled to promise that he would marry off neither of his two eldest daughters without the permission of the king of France. In 1235, the queen-regent of France, Blanche of Castile, invoked that promise on behalf of her son, King Louis IX of France, and threatened to deprive Simon of all his lands if Joan married Henry III. Henry therefore abandoned the project for his marriage to Joan and in January 1236 married instead Eleanor of Provence, the sister of Louis IX's wife. In November 1235, Blanche of Castile's nephew, King Ferdinand III of Castile, lost his wife, Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen, and Blanche's sister Berengaria of Castile, Ferdinand's mother, was concerned that her widowed son might involve himself in liaisons that were unsuited to his dignity as king. Berengaria determined to find Ferdinand another wife, and her sister Blanche suggested Joan of Dammartin, whose marriage to the king of Castile would keep her inheritance from falling into hostile hands. In October 1237, at the age of about seventeen, Joan and Ferdinand were married in Burgos. Since Ferdinand already had seven sons from his first marriage to Elisabeth of Hohenstaufen, there was little chance of Ponthieu being absorbed by Castile. They had four sons and one daughter: Ferdinand II, Count of Aumale (1239-ca 1265) m. (after 1256) Laure de Montfort, Lady of Espernon (d before 08.1270), and had issue: Eleanor of Castile, Countess of Ponthieu, who married king Edward I of England and had issue Louis (1243-ca 1275), who married Juana de Manzanedo, Lady of Gaton, and had issue Simon (1244), died young and buried in a monastery in Toledo John (1245), died young and buried at the cathedral in C?rdoba She accompanied Ferdinand to Andalucia and lived with him in the army camp as he besieged Seville in 1248. Upon her mother's death in 1251, Joan succeeded as Countess of Ponthieu and Montreuil, which she held in her own right. After Ferdinand III died in 1252, Joan did not enjoy a cordial relationship with his heir, her stepson Alfonso X of Castile, with whom she quarreled over the lands and income she should have received as dowager queen of Castile. Sometime in 1253, she became the ally and supporter of another of her stepsons, Fadrique of Castile, who also felt Alfonso had not allowed him all the wealth their father had meant him to have. Joan unwisely attended secret meetings with Henry and his supporters, and it was rumored that she and Fadrique were lovers. This further strained her relations with Alfonso and in 1254, shortly before her daughter Eleanor was to marry Edward of England, Joan and her eldest son Ferdinand left Castile and returned to her native Ponthieu. Sometime between May 1260 and 9 February 1261, Joan took a second husband, Jean de Nesle, Seigneur de Falvy et de La H?relle (died 2 February 1292). This marriage is sometimes said to have produced a daughter, B?atrice, but she was in fact a child of Jean de Nesle's first marriage. In 1263, Joan was recognized as countess of Aumale after the death of a childless Dammartin cousin. But her son Ferdinand died around 1265, leaving a young son known as John of Ponthieu. During her marriage to Jean de Nesle, Joan ran up considerable debts and also appears to have allowed her rights as countess in Ponthieu to weaken. The death of her son Ferdinand in 1265 made her next son, Louis, her heir in Ponthieu but around 1275 he, too, died, leaving two children. But according to inheritance customs in Picardy, where Ponthieu lay, Joan's young grandson John of Ponthieu could not succeed her there; her heir in Ponthieu automatically became her adult daughter Eleanor, who was married to Edward I of England. It does not appear that Joan was displeased at the prospect of having Ponthieu pass under English domination; from 1274 to 1278, in fact, she had her granddaughter Joan of Acre (the daughter of Edward I and Eleanor) with her in Ponthieu, and appears to have treated the girl so indulgently that when she was returned to England her parents found that she was thoroughly spoiled. That same indulgent nature appears to have made Joan inattentive to her duties as countess. When she died at Abbeville, in March 1279, her daughter and son-in-law were thus confronted with Joan's vast debts, and to prevent the king of France from involving himself in the county's affairs, they had to pay the debts quickly by taking out loans from citizens in Ponthieu and from wealthy abbeys in France. They also had to deal with a lengthy legal struggle with Eleanor's nephew, John of Ponthieu, to whom Joan bequeathed a great deal of land in Ponthieu as well as important legal rights connected with those estates. The dispute was resolved when John of Ponthieu was recognized as Joan's successor in Aumale according to the inheritance customs that prevailed in Normandy, while Edward and Eleanor retained Ponthieu and John gave up all his claims there. By using English wealth, Edward and Eleanor restored stability to the administration and the finances of Ponthieu, and added considerably to the comital estate by purchasing large amounts of land there. ========== 'Plantagenet Ancestry', by Douglas Richardson pg 192 Countess of Ponthieu, Montreuil, and Aumale. She was the Countess Of Pon.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 30 Dec 2022), entry for Jeanne (Joan) DAMMARTIN, person ID LZD4-722. (Reliability: 3).