Joan I of Navarre
Joan I (Basque: Joana, Spanish: Juana; 14 January 1273 – 31 March/2 April 1305) was ruling Queen of Navarre and Countess of Champagne from 1274 until 1305. She was also Queen of France by marriage to King Philip IV. She founded the College of Navarre in Paris in 1305.
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Quotes
[edit]- When you kill these Flemish boars, do not spare the sows; them I would have spitted.
- During the Flemish war (1302). Reported in Pierce Butler, Woman in All Ages and in All Countries, vol. 5: Mediæval France (Philadelphia, 1907), p. 264. Cf. Jacques de Meyer, Annales rerum Flandricarum, p. 93: Ut apros quidem, hoc est viros, hastis, sed sues verutis confoderent, infesta admodum mulieribus, quas sues vocabat, ob fastum illum femineum visum a se Brugis.—The men she would have speared, the women spitted, "being," says Meyer, "particularly hostile to the latter on account of the bravery of their apparel." Jules Michelet (tr. G. H. Smith) History of France, vol. 1 (New York, 1845), p. 356, note
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- Henry Smith Williams (ed.) The Historians' History of the World, vol. 13 (London, 1908), p. 318