Joan of Valois
1464–1505
French queen who entered religious life, became a nun and later an abbess who founded the Sisters of the Annunciation of Mary (canonized 1950)
abbess · religious sister
Born in Nogent-le-Roi
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Joan of Valois:
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
- Michelangelo (1475–1564)
- Martin Luther (1483–1546)
- Christopher Columbus (1451–1506)
- Niccolò Machiavelli (1469–1527)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543)
- Ferdinand Magellan (1480–1521)
- Raphael (1483–1520)