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Joanna, wife of Chuza (Йоганна, жінка Хусова) is a verse drama by Ukrainian writer Lesya Ukrainka, first published in 1909. [12] In the 2015 television miniseries Killing Jesus Rotem Zissman-Cohen plays Joanna. [13] In the 2015 television miniseries A.D. The Bible Continues, Joanna is portrayed by Farzana Dua Elahe. [13]
Joan of France, also known as Joan or Joanna of Valois (24 June 1343, Châteauneuf-sur-Loire – 3 November 1373, Évreux), was Queen of Navarre by marriage to Charles II of Navarre (called The Bad). She was the daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and Bonne of Luxembourg. She served as regent of Navarre during the absence of ...
Joanna of Portugal OP (6 February 1452 – 12 May 1490; Portuguese: Joana, Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈsɐ̃tɐ ʒuˈɐnɐ pɾĩˈsezɐ]) was a Portuguese regent princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Afonso V of Portugal and his first wife Queen Isabel of Coimbra. She served as regent during the absence of her father in 1471.
The name Joanna, like Yehohanan, was associated with Hasmonean families. [1] Saint Joanna was culturally Hellenized, thus bearing the Grecian adaptation of a Jewish name, as was commonly done in her milieu. [2] At the beginning of the Christian era, the names Iōanna and Iōannēs were already common in Judea. [3]
Joanna I, also known as Johanna I (Italian: Giovanna I; December 1325 [1] – 27 July 1382), was Queen of Naples, [a] and Countess of Provence and Forcalquier from 1343 to 1381; she was also Princess of Achaea from 1373 to 1381. Joanna was the eldest daughter of Charles, Duke of Calabria and Marie of Valois to survive infancy.
Thouret was born in Sancey, in the Franche-Comté region of eastern France, on November 27, 1765, the fifth child of a poor [2] [3] and "deeply Christian family". [1] She was baptized the day she was born and was named after her godmother.
Joan of Navarre, also known as Joanna (c. 1368 – 10 June 1437) was Duchess of Brittany by marriage to Duke John IV and later Queen of England as the second wife of King Henry IV. Joan was a daughter of Charles II of Navarre and Joan of France. [2] She served as regent of Brittany from 1399 until 1403 during the minority of her eldest son ...
Joan of Arc (French: Jeanne d'Arc [ʒan daʁk]; Middle French: Jehanne Darc [ʒəˈãnə ˈdark]; c. 1412 – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the coronation of Charles VII of France during the Hundred Years' War.