Joan, born c. 1287/88, was the eldest daughter and heiress of Otto IV, Count of Burgundy, and Mahaut, Countess of Artois.

[5][6] Upon her father's death in 1303, with her only brother Robert disinherited by the Treaty of Vincennes (1295), the County of Burgundy was inherited by Joan under the regency of her mother.

Joan died at Roye-en-Artois, on 21 January 1330,[7] and was buried at Cordeliers Convent in Paris.

[8] Her titles were inherited by her eldest daughter, Joan III, who had married Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy, in 1318.

The Counties of Burgundy and Artois were eventually inherited by her younger daughter Margaret in 1361.