Tomb Of Joan Of Brabant
The tomb of Joan of Brabant was built between 1457 and 1458 by the bronze caster Jacob de Gerines after wooden models by the sculptor Jean Delemer, and placed in the church of the Carmelites, Carmelite monastery in Brussels. Joanna, Duchess of Brabant, Joan of Brabant was a Duchess of Duchy of Brabant, Brabant and died in 1406. Joanna was born in 1322 as the daughter of John III, Duke of Brabant and Marie d'Évreux. She was a Duchess of Duchy of Brabant, Brabant from 1355 until her death in 1406 at the age of 84. Her will requested that she be buried alongside her mother in an enlarged burial place.Adams; Barker (2016), p. 180 The tomb was commissioned in the 1450s by her great-great-nephew Philip the Good.Campbell (1988), p. 163 It was damaged during Calvinist iconoclasm in the years 1578 to 1585 and underwent restoration in 1607, but was destroyed along with the monastery in August 1695 by the French Royal Army during the Bombardment of Brussels (1695), bombardment of Brussels ...
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