Driven out of her domain of Laval by the English, she lived in retirement at Vitre with her daughter Anne.
Thirteen years before, the latter had incurred her mother's displeasure by secretly marrying a landless younger son of a noble house.

When Dame Jeanne discovered it she imprisoned her daughter in a dungeon and welcomed the younger son by shooting at him with a cross-bow.

After which the two ladies dwelt together in peace.[1157] [Footnote 1155: Letter from the Lavals, in _Trial_, vol.v, p.

109.
Bertrand de Broussillon, _La maison de Laval, les Montfort-Laval_, Paris, 1900, in 8vo, vol.iii, p.75.Quicherat is mistaken when (_Trial_, vol.v, p.

105) he gives the name of Anne to Du Guesclin's widow and calls the mother of Guy and of Andre Jeanne.] [Footnote 1156: Cuvelier, _Poeme de Duguesclin_, line 2325 _et seq._] [Footnote 1157: Bertrand de Broussillon, _La maison de Laval_ in 8vo, 1900, vol.iii, _loc.