Jeanne d'Evreux reigned as queen of France for only three and a half years, from July 1324 to February 1328, when her husband Charles IV died. While queen and as a royal widow, she was an important patron of the arts, endowing chapels, as at Saint-Denis, and presenting goldsmiths' work to religious communities. Even after her death, Jeanne d'Evreux was renowned for her piety, especially for her habit of "rising every day before dawn, and herself lighting her candle to say her prayers."

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