She succeeded her uncle, Guy de la Marche, Knight, sometime in the period, 1310/13, as Lady of Couche and Peyrat, but not as Countess of La Marche since after her sister, Yolande's death, it was annexed by Philip IV of France and given as an appanage to Philip's son Charles the Fair.
Previously, in 1308, following the death of her brother Guy (or Guiard), Jeanne and her sister Isabelle, as co-heiresses, had sold the county of Angoulême to the King.
Her first husband was Bernard Ezi III, Lord of Albret, by whom she had two daughters.
[citation needed] Her grandfather, Hugh XI of Lusignan, was the half-brother of King Henry III of England.
Joan married firstly Bernard Ezi III, Lord of Albret, by whom she had two daughters: After the death of her first husband on 24 December 1280, Joan married secondly before 11 Oct. 1283 (date of charter), Sir Piers de Geneville, of Trim and Ludlow Castle (1256 – before June 1292), by whom she had another three daughters: Joan died 13 April 1323 at the age of 63, and was buried at the Abbaye de Valence.