Jeanne was born in France in about the year 1227, the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Geoffrey VI, Viscount of Châteaudun, and his wife Clémence des Roches (died after September 1259). Her father also held the titles of seigneur of Chateaudun, Chateau-du-Loir, Mayet, Loupeland, Montdoubleau, and la Suze.[1] In 1229, he participated in the Crusade against the Albigenses in the Languedoc.
Her paternal grandparents were Geoffrey V, Viscount de Chateaudun and Alix de Freteval, and her maternal grandparents were William des Roches, Seneschal of Anjou, and Marguerite de Sablé, daughter of Robert de Sablé and Clémence de Mayenne. Jeanne had a younger sister Clémence de Chateaudun (after 1227 – before 1 February 1259), who married Robert de Dreux, Viscount de Chateaudun (1217–1264). She had a brother, Pierre de Chateaudun (died after 1251), who was a monk.
Marriages and issue
In March 1248 Jeanne married her first husband Jean I de Montfort, son of Amaury VI, Count of Montfort and Beatrice of Burgundy, by whom she had one daughter:
Jeanne died on an unknown date. There is a source which claims that she attained the title of Dame de Chateau-du-Loir in 1265. The title of Loupeland she passed on to her daughter Blanche.[1]
Perry, Guy (2018). The Briennes: The Rise and Fall of a Champenois Dynasty in the Age of the Crusades, C. 950–1356. Cambridge University Press.
Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham, and David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Royal Ancestry series", p. 155, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, Md., 2004