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The Kingdom of Navarre remained in personal union with the Kingdom of France until the death of King Charles I (Charles IV of France) in 1328, and on March 13 of the same year, Don Juan Martínez de Medrano and Don Juan Corbaran de Lehet were appointed regents of the Kingdom of Navarre for 11 months (February 27, 1329) until the succession in ...
Coat of arms of the monarchs of Navarre since 1580–1700. This is a list of the kings and queens of Pamplona, later Navarre.Pamplona was the primary name of the kingdom until its union with Aragon (1076–1134).
When Henry's son, King Francis II of France, soon died in turn, Navarre returned to the centre of politics, becoming Lieutenant-General of France and leading the army of the crown in the first of the French Wars of Religion. He died of wounds sustained during the Siege of Rouen. He was the father of King Henry IV, France's first Bourbon king.
King of Navarre r. 1284–1305: Joan I 1273–1305 Queen of Navarre r. 1274–1305: Robert II 1248–1306 Duke of Burgundy r. 1272–1306: Jeanne of Évreux 1310–1371: Charles I(IV) 1294–1328 King of France and Navarre r. 1322–1328: Margaret of Burgundy 1290–1315: Louis I (X) 1289–1316 King of France r. 1314–1316 King of Navarre r ...
His father was first cousin to King Philip VI of France, while his mother, Joan, was the only daughter of Louis X of France. Charles of Navarre was 'born of the fleur-de-lys on both sides', as he liked to point out, but he succeeded to a shrunken inheritance as far as his French lands were concerned. Charles was raised in France during ...
Henry II (18 April 1503 – 25 May 1555), nicknamed Sangüesino because he was born in Sangüesa, was the King of Navarre from 1517. The kingdom had been reduced to a small territory north of the Pyrenees mountains by the Spanish conquest of 1512.
Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon. [1] During the reign of his childless older brother Theobald II he held the regency during many of Theobald's numerous absences. In 1269, Henry married Blanche of Artois, daughter of the then-reigning King Louis IX of France's brother Count Robert I of Artois. [2]
He became King of Navarre and Count of Foix by virtue of his 1484 marriage to Queen Catherine (1470–1517), successor of her brother Francis Phoebus in 1483. He shared with Catherine tasks related to the government of the kingdom, but his rule was marked by the guardianship of Catherine's mother Magdalena de Valois up to 1494—she died in 1495—and persistent diplomatic and military ...