16 Joan de Valois and the Order of the Annunciades From 1498, Blessed Gabriel Maria was the confessor and spiritual director of Joan de Valois, Queen of France and later the Duchess of Berry. Joan was born on April 23, 1464, at the castle Nogent-le-Roi, as the second daughter of King of France Louis XI and Queen Charlotte de Savoy. The newborn princess was badly received by her father who wished for a son. According to the custom of the day, at the age of two months she was betrothed to her father’s cousin Louis, the A 16th-century portrait of St. Joan of France, attributed to Jean Perréal.
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