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Seal of Catherine of Navarre. She and John III of Navarre were parents to thirteen children: [5] Anne of Navarre (19 May 1492 – 15 August 1532). Magdalena of Navarre (29 March 1494 – May 1504). Catherine of Navarre (1495 – November 1532). Abbess of the Trinity at Caen. Joan of Navarre (15 June 1496 – last mentioned in November, 1496).
Catherine was born on 7 February 1559 to Queen Jeanne III of Navarre and her husband and co-ruler, Antoine of Bourbon. [1] She was named after her godmother, the French queen Catherine de' Medici. Jeanne converted to Calvinism a year after Catherine's birth and declared it the official religion of the Kingdom of Navarre. Antoine, conversely ...
Catherine reigned together with her husband John III. After his death, she reigned alone for eight months until her own death. During their reign, Navarre was defeated by Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1512, resulting in the loss of all its territory south of the Pyrenees, including the royal capital of Pamplona.
In 1512–13, Upper Navarre, the portion of the Kingdom below the Pyrenees and the independent portion of the Kingdom from which the crown derived, was occupied by Spanish forces under Ferdinand the Catholic, the son of John II, and husband of Germaine de Foix (an heiress of Navarre), driving out the king and queen, John III and Catherine I ...
But Catherine de' Medici and Henry III refused to release her to her husband, fearing that Margaret would become a hostage in the hands of the Huguenots or that she would act to strengthen the alliance between Navarre and Anjou. [47] However, Catherine was persuaded that Henry of Navarre could potentially change religion yet again, and used her ...
Catherine de Foix (c. 1455 – died before 1494) was a French noblewoman. She was a daughter of Gaston IV, Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Navarre, [1] and was a granddaughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre. Catherine married Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale. [1] They had: Gaston de Foix, 3rd Count of Candale.
Princess Beatrice has welcomed her second baby with husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi. "Her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice and Mr Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi are delighted to announce the safe arrival of ...
This made Catherine a direct descendant of Louis IX of France, and of the House of Capet, albeit through a female line. Also this made her a 7th cousin, once removed of her husband Henry and a 6th cousin, 3 times removed of Henri of Navarre, her son-in-law.