Eleanor of Navarre
Eleanor of Navarre (Spanish Leonor; * February 2, 1425, † February 12, 1479 in Tudela ), also known as Eleanor of Aragon, "legitimate Queen of Navarre " was since 1464 and as of January 19, 1479 for three weeks, actual queen of Navarre.
Life
Eleonore was the younger daughter of Queen Blanche of Navarre and whose second husband, John II, who due to his marriage held the title of King of Navarre in 1425. With their older (full) siblings Charles of Viana and Blanche of Aragon ( " Blanka II " ) Eleanor grew up in the magnificent Castle of Olite.
On July 30, 1436, the only 11 -year-old Eleanor Gaston IV, Count of Foix married out of the house Grailly. With this marriage Johann II sought influence in the north bordering the Pyrenees area to win.
After the death of Queen Blanka ( 1441 ) Navarre did not fall as planned to his son Charles of Viana; Instead, led by Johann II usurpation 1441-1479 continue the title of King of Navarre. 1441/42 drew Eleonore South of France, from now on in order to live on the territory of her husband and to perform with him the marriage. She acted politically always in accordance with her husband and bore him ten children.
Broke out in 1451, a civil war between John II and his son Karl. The latter was indeed captured by his father in the fall of 1451 and released only after almost two years. Nevertheless, John II could not win a final victory and offered his daughter Eleanor and her husband in 1455, instead of them Charles to the throne of Navarre transmitted, when the Count of Foix would support in return Johann II military. In fact, Gaston IV then struck Charles of Viana crucial. During the losers fled to the court of his uncle Alfonso V to Naples, Johann II convened the Cortes of Agramonteses in Estella, a disinherited Charles and his sister, Blanka and appointed Eleanor and Gaston IV to the heir to the throne of Navarre.
After the death of Alfonso V was John II 1458-1479 and King of Aragon. His son Karl went back to Spain in 1459, but died in September 1461. Rumored to it have been at the instigation of his stepmother Juana Enríquez, the second wife of John II, poisoned. He had his sister Blanka determined heir to the throne, but which was delivered by her father John II of her younger sister Eleanor. Blanka was launched in April 1462 over the Pyrenees to Saint -Jean -Pied -de-Port and eventually interned in the castle of Orthez in Béarn. She was allegedly tortured and abused in captivity and died on 2 December in 1464. Many historians suspect that they had been poisoned by order of Eleanor.
Eleanor had Navarra ruled as " governor " of her father since 1455, and it should be up to his death in 1479 (apart from a short break 1469/70 ) remain in this position until 1469 with the title " Lieutenant-General of Navarre " ( "Lieutenant générale de Navarre " ), since 1471 as the" Governor of Navarre " ( " governess de Navarre "). But was always under the suzerainty of her father and therefore could not exert completely independent governance. In 1468 she tried in vain with her husband to usurp the throne of Navarre by her father. On November 23, 1470 their eldest son Gaston died in a tournament; about one and a half years later she was a widow. In 1476 she met her father and her half-brother Ferdinand II, the Catholic in Viana and obtained their consent to be able to name her grandson Francis Phoebus to their heir.
On January 19, 1479 80 -year-old John II and Eleanor died was proclaimed on 28 January by the Cortes in Tudela Queen of Navarre, while Aragon went to her half-brother Ferdinand. However, they could not enjoy their long new title, as they are already fifteen days after her coronation, on February 12, 1479 died.
Progeny
On July 30, 1436 married Eleanor Gaston IV, Count of Foix from the house Grailly. The couple had ten children:
- Gaston (* 1444, † November 23, 1470 ), 1462 Prince of Viana, Viscount of Castelbon, Lieutenant-General of Navarre, father of King Francis Phoebus and Queen Catherine of Navarre
- Peter (* February 7, 1449; † August 10, 1490 ), called Pierre le Jeune, Cardinal, Bishop of Vannes, Viceroy of Navarre ( 1479-1484 )
- Johann (* after 1450, † November 5, 1500 ) Viscount of Narbonne, Count of Etampes, pretender to the throne on the death of his nephew, Francis Phoebus of Navarre, ∞ 1476 Marie d'Orléans
- Marie ( * after 1452, † 1467 ) ∞ January 19th, 1465 William VIII, Marquis of Montferrat
- Johanna ( * after 1454, † after 1476 ), ∞ August 1469 in Lectoure Jean V, Count of Armagnac
- Margarete ( * after 1458, † May 15, 1486 ), ∞ June 27, 1471 in Clisson, Francis II, Duke of Brittany
- Catherine ( * after 1460, † before 1494), ∞ 1469 Count Gaston II de Foix - Candale
- Isabella ( by * 1462 )
- Eleonore ( * after 1466 † young)
- Jacob (c. 1469 † 1500), Count of Montfort l'Amaury, Viceroy of Navarre