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Joan II of Navarre (January 28, 1312 - October 6, 1349) was Queen of Navarre 1328–1349. She was the only daughter of King Louis X of France (I of Navarre) and his first wife, Margaret of Burgundy. She was a member of the House of Capet.

On the death of her father (in 1316) and half-brother, John I (also 1316), who were kings of both France and Navarre, she was excluded from their succession, mostly because of doubts about her paternity. Her uncles, King Philip V of France (II of Navarre) and King Charles IV of France (I of Navarre), took precedence over the young girl on the Navarrese throne, even though it was inheritable by females. With regards to the French crown, several legal reasons were invoked by Philip V and later by Philip VI of France to bar her from the succession, such as proximity in kinship to Louis IX of France. Later, the Salic Law was construed as the reason.

After Charles IV of France died in 1328, she became Queen of Navarre through a treaty with the new king, Philip VI of France, who was not a descendant of the later Kings of Navarre through Garcia VI of Navarre. In the treaty, she had to renounce her rights to the crown of France, and her grandmother's estates in Brie and Champagne (which were merged in the French royal domain). In compensation, she received the counties of Angoulême and Mortain as well as a portion of Cotentin (Longueville). Later on she exchanged Angouleme for three estates in Vexin:- Pontoise, Beaumont-sur-Oise, and Asnière-sur-Oise.

She reigned as Queen of Navarre until her death in 1349, together with her husband, Philip III of Navarre as king consort, 1329–1343. Philip was also Count of Évreux, the heir of Count Louis of Évreux (youngest son of Philip III of France), and thus of Capetian male blood. Because of his patrimonial lands, together with Joan's gains in Normandy and her rights in Champagne, the couple had extensive possessions in Northern France.

Altogether, Joan and Philip had eight children. She was succeeded by their son Charles II of Navarre. Their daughter Blanche d'Evreux became the second wife of Philip VI of France.

Although Joan never ascended the French throne, her descendants and heirs, the Kings of Navarre, were to eventually reach the throne of France when Henry IV of France inherited the crown two centuries later, in 1589. From then onwards, all Kings of France have been carrying also Joan's blood, and have also been her heirs. The Kings of France had already been descended from her since the ascension of Henry II (who was Joan's issue in 8th generation, through for example his maternal great-grandmother Margaret of Foix-Navarre, duchess consort of Brittany, and through Margaret's husband's great-grandmother Joan of Navarre, queen of England and also duchess consort of Brittany, who herself was Joan's granddaughter); these were not, however, senior descendants of Joan.

• Joanna (c. 1325–1387), a nun at Longchamp
• Maria of Navarre (c. 1326–1347), first wife of King Pedro IV of Aragon (1319–1387).
• Blanche d’Évreux (1331–1398), second wife of the much older King Philip VI of France (1293–1350).
• Charles II of Navarre (1332–1387), King of Navarre, known as Charles le Mauvais, i.e. Charles the Bad.
• Agnès (1334–1396), married Gaston III, Count of Foix (1331–1391).
• Philip, Count of Longueville (1336–1363), married Yolande de Dampierre (1331–1395.
• Joanna of Navarre (1339–1403), married John I, Viscount of Rohan (d. 1395).
• Louis, Count of Beaumont-le-Roger (1341–1372), married 1358 Maria de Lizarazu, married 1366 Joanna of Durazzo (1344–1387)