Monarchs of Navarre

[Prince_Lieven]

A list starting in 905:
# Sancho I (905-925)
# Garcia I (925-970)
# Sancho II (970-994)
# Garcia II (994-1004)
# Sancho III 'the Great' King of Iberia (1004-1035)
# Garcia III (1035-1054)
# Sancho IV (1054-1076)
# Sancho V (1076-1094). Also King of Aragon
# Peter I (1094-1104). Also King of Aragon
# Alfonso I 'the Fighter' (1104-1134). Also King of Aragon
# Garcia IV (1134-1150)
# Sancho VI (1150-1190)
# Sancho VII 'The Strong' (1190-???)
# Blanche I (or Blanca) (-1229). Here sister Beregaria married Richard the Lionheart.
# Theobald I 'The Great' (1229-1253)
# Theobald II (1253-1270)
# Henry I (1270-1274)
# Jeanne I (1274-1305)
# Louis I (1305-1316)
# Philip I 'The Tall' (1316-1322). Also King of France.
# Charles I (1322-1328). Also King of France.
# Jeanne II (1328-1349)
# Philip II (1329-1343). Husband of Jeanne II.
# Charles II (1349-1387)
# Charles III (1387-1425)
# Blanche II (1425-1441)
# John II (1425-1458). Husband of Blanche II. Also King of Aragon.
# Eleanor (1458-1479)
# Francis I (1479-1483). Grandson of Eleanor.
# Catherine I (1483-1512). Sister of Francis.
# John III (1512-1517). Husband of Catherine.
# Henry II (1512-1555). Co ruled with his father John.
# Jeanne III (1555-1572)
# Henry III (1572-1610). King of France from 1589.

I would love some info or pics on these people!  

[bell_the_cat]

Thanks Prince Lieven

This actually belongs in the Iberian section. Umigon will be cross, as I know he was wanting to do a list of the Queen consorts of Navarre!

But maybe he will be happy to do it here.

[Prince_Lieven]

LOL - I'm sure Umigon will forgive me . . .   I didn't know the Navaresse were regarded as definitely Spanish . . .

[bell_the_cat]

We'll have to wait and see...

[Prince_Lieven]

Well, IMO, they had so many links with the French monarchs they could equally belong here . . .

[umigon]

How could I get angry with any of you!!??


This thread could belong both to the Iberian or the French section, as there is a French Navarre and a Spanish Navarre!  


It had been a unique country, but in 1512 Ferdinand II (the Catholic) conquered the Spanish Navarre to queen Catherine I, who fled to the French Navarre, whose last independent king was Henri III, future Henry IV of France.

[umigon]

I'll try to do a list of queen consorts later today!

[Prince_Lieven]

Great. I look forward to it.  

[Prince_Christopher]

I've always found the Navarrese monarchy interesting in its number of queens regnant over a fairly short period of time (about 350 years) and in a time when queens regnant were few and far between.  

Seven of them:  Blanca I, Jeanne I, Jeanne II, Blanca II, Eleanor, Catherine, and Jeanne III.

Quite a bit is known about Jeanne III, but I wonder about the others.  Is there any interesting information on any of them?

[Prince_Christopher]

Here are their husbands and some dates:


**Blanca I (d.1229) m. Theobald III, Count of Champagne

**Jeanne I (d. 1304) m. Philip IV, King of France

**Jeanne II (d. 1349) m. Philip, Count of Evreaux

**Blanca II m. John, King of Aragon

**Eleanor m. Gaston IV, Count of Foix

**Catherine (d.1517) m. John d'Albret

**Jeanne III, "Jeanne d'Albret, Joan of Navarre" (d. 1572) m. Antoine, Duc de Bourbon

[umigon]

Actually, Blanca I, the same as Blanca III, were never really queens of Navarre.


Blanca I was born in 1179, being the daughter of Sancho VI and Sancha of Castile, she was the youngest sister of Sancho VII and Berenguela, the wife of Richard the Lionheart. She married Thibault III of Blois in 1199 and became a widow in 1201, after giving birth to her only child, Teobaldo. When Sancho VII died in 1234 he had no children, so Teobaldo was crowned the new King of Navarre (it's interesting to imagine that if Richard and Berenguela had had any children THEY would have inherited both England and Navarre!). In1234 Blanca had been dead for five years, but her son entitled her as Queen as a posthumous title!


Blanca III was the daughter of Blanca II and Juan II of Navarre (Juan would later be King of Aragon, and father of Ferdinand the Catholic). Born in 1424 she was the second in the line of Succession to the kingdom of Navarre, after her brother Carlos and before her sister Leonor. She was married to Enrique of Castile in 1440 but the marriage, never consummated, was annulled in 1453. Blanca returned to her family (by then split in two Juan and Leonor against Carlos). Juan and Leonor decided to imprison Blanca in Orthez Castle. When her brother Carlos died in 1461, she inherited his claim (a very legitimate claim, by the way) to the throne and many proclaimed her Queen Blanca III of Navarre. In 1464 Juan and Leonor decided to posion her in order to get rid of a potential enemy. Leonor became the new heiress to Navarre, she would only taste her triumph for 15 days, as she was just queen of Navarre that small amount of time!

[Prince_Christopher]

Very interesting, Umigon!  What then happened to Leonor?

[umigon]

Leonor, born in 1425,was the most ambitious of Juan's children by Blanca, and had been her father's favourite child. She had been conspiring against her mother, brother and sister in order to become Queen regnant of Navarre. Reportedly very beautiful and bad-tempered, she married Gaston of Foix in 1436. They were a happy couple, although Leonor always made it clear to him that she was a princess whilst he was just a mere count (he was from an important noble family, but Leonor didn't bother about that). They had 12 children:

1. Blanca (1440-1440)
2. Gaston (1444-1470)
3. Gonzalo (1446-1447)
4. Pedro (1449-1490)
5. Juan Gaston (1450-1500)
6. María (1452-1467)
7. Juana (1454-1476)
8. Margarita (1458-1486)
9. Jacobo (1460-1500)
10. Catalina (1461-1493)
11. Isabel (1462-1516)
12. Leonor (1466-1480)


She was her father's most trusted advisor and she was wise enough not to complain when her father remarried and had a son. In fact she became one of Ferdinand's most fervent supporters, even when he married Isabel of Castile. She was a widow from 1472 and by then her older son was already dead. Her son Gaston, however, had left two children: Francisco Febo and Catalina. Juan II of Aragon and Navarre, Leonor's father, died on January 19th 1479 aged 80. Leonor became Queen Leonor I of Navarre aged 54. She was officially named queen on the 29th January. She was ill at the time and died only 15 days later. Some said it was divine justice for all the damage she had done to others earlier in her life. She was succeeded by her grandson Francisco Febo.

[umigon]

By the way, here are her children's husbands and wives:

* Gaston married Madeleine of Valois (1443-1495) in 1461. She was the youngest daughter of Charles VII of France and his wife Queen Marie.

* Juan Gastón married María of Valois-Orleans (1457-1493), sister of the future Louis XII of France, in 1476.

* María married Guglielmo VIII of Montferrato (1420-1483) in 1465.

* Juana married Jean V of Armagnac (1420-1473) in 1469.

* Margarita married François II of Brittany (1435-1488) in 1471.

* Jacobo married Ana de Peralta (1464-1508) in 1485 and he had the marriage annulled in 1494. He married secondly Catherine de Beaumont (1480-1499) in 1494.

* Catalina married Gaston II of Foix-Sommières (1445-1500) in 1469.

* Isabel married Guy de Pons (1460-1504) in 1475.

[Prince_Lieven]

 

Thanks so much Prince Christopher and Umigon for breathing life into this thread!!  

BTW, I would like to know more about Queen Catherine (Catalina) . . . Any info?