Editing John II of France (section)

===Coronation===
Philip VI, John's father, died on 22 August 1350, and John's coronation as John II, king of France, took place in [[Reims]] the following 26 September. Joanna, his second wife, was crowned queen of France at the same time.<ref>{{cite book |title=Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France |volume=1 |trans-title=Genealogical and chronological history of the royal house of France |last=Anselme de Sainte-Marie |first=Père |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n9lEAAAAcAAJ |publisher=La compagnie des libraires |location=Paris |language=fr |edition=3rd |year=1726 |page=105}}</ref>
[[File:Jan jana.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|John being crowned King of France with his second wife Joan]]
In November 1350, King John had [[Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu]] seized and summarily executed,<ref>Jones, Michael. "The last Capetians and early Valois Kings, 1314–1364", Michael Jones, ''The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 6, c. 1300 – c. 1415'', (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 391.</ref> for reasons that remain unclear, although it was rumoured that he had pledged the English the County of [[Guînes]] for his release from captivity.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Tuchman |first=Barbara Wertheim |url=http://archive.org/details/distantmirrorcal00tuch |title=A Distant Mirror : The Calamitous 14th Century |publisher=Knopf  |year=1978 |isbn=978-0-394-40026-6  |language=en|page=127}}</ref>