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Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, [1] and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre.
Portrait of Marguerite, Queen of Navarre, attributed to Jean Clouet, c. 1530. The Gentleman's Spur catching in the Sheet. Illustration from an 1894 edition of The Tales of the Heptameron. The Heptaméron is a collection of 72 short stories written in French by Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549), published
In 1532, Marguerite de Navarre, a woman of French nobility, included the sixth psalm of David in the new editions of the popular Miroir de l’âme pécheresse ("The Mirror of a Sinful Soul"). [4] The psalm would also be later translated by the future Elizabeth I of England in 1544, when Elizabeth was eleven years old. [5]
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549 also called Margaret of Angoulême), elder sister of Francis I of France, married Henry II of Navarre Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (Valois) (1523–74), daughter of Francis I of France and Claude of France, wife of Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy
Marguerite de Navarre, also called Marguerite of Angoulême, sister of Francis I of France, wife of Henry II of Navarre Marguerite, bâtarde de France , illegitimate daughter of Charles VI of France Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (1523–1574), sister of Henry II of France, daughter of Francis I of France
Other members of the Circle included Marguerite de Navarre, sister of Francis I and mother of Jeanne d'Albret, as well as Guillaume Farel, who was exiled to Geneva in 1530 due to his reformist views and persuaded John Calvin to join him there. [19]
The Château de Nérac. The Château de Nérac is a castle in the Lot-et-Garonne département in southwest France.An edifice of the French Renaissance style, it was finished during the reign of Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre, daughter of Marguerite d'Angoulème who was also Marguerite de Navarre by her marriage to Henry II of Navarre.
Margaret was the daughter of King García Ramírez of Navarre and Marguerite de l'Aigle. [1] She was married at a young age to William I of Sicily, in 1149, the fourth son of Roger II of Sicily. According to the Palermitan archivist Isidoro La Lumia, she was, in her later years, bella ancora, superba, leggiera ("still beautiful, proud, light").