Jeanne d'Albret

Jeanne III. of Navarre, Jeanne d' Albret better known as ( born January 7, 1528 Pau, Aquitaine, France, † June 9, 1572 in Paris), was from 1555 to 1572 Countess of Rodez and Queen of Navarre.

Life

She was the daughter of Henry II (1503-1555), called Henri d' Albret, King of Navarre (1517-1555), and of Margaret of Angoulême, sister of the French king Francis I.

She married in 1541 William V, Duke of Jülich -Cleves -Berg. The marriage was not consummated and canceled five years later. At the instigation of her mother and her uncle, she then married in 1548 Anton of Bourbon ( 1518-1562 ), son of Charles de Bourbon ( 1489-1537 ), Duke of Vendôme, and his wife Françoise d' Alençon. As Queen of Navarre, she ran the extermination of the Catholic doctrine, which they produced tensions with the French court. Her son Henry should be brought in as first prince of the blood to the court in Paris, but she resisted and so her son experienced his early childhood in Navarra. However, she could not resist the call soon more and he spent the next time at the request of the queen mother, Catherine de Medici in France. In the following years she supported the Huguenots at least morally and died a few days before the blood wedding of her son in Paris. Your private doctor was the Frenchman Jean ileocecal she was advised by Theodore de Beza.

Title by birth

  • Queen of Navarre (1555-1572)
  • Duchess of Albret (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Limoges (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Foix (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Armagnac (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Bigorre (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Perigord (1555-1572)
  • Countess of Rodez (1555-1572)

Title by marriage

  • Duchess of Bourbon (1548-1562)
  • Duchess of Vendôme (1550-1562)
  • Duchess of Beaumont (1550-1562)
  • Countess of Marle (1548-1562)
  • Countess of La Fere (1548-1562)
  • Countess of Soissons (1550-1562)

Children

  • Heinrich ( * September 21, 1551; † August 20, 1553 ), Duke of Beaumont
  • Heinrich ( * December 14, 1553, † May 10, 1610 ), first as Henry III. King of Navarre (1572-1610), later as Henry IV, King of France (1589-1610)
  • Louis -Charles (* February 19, 1554, † February 13, 1557 )
  • Madeleine (* April 12, 1557, † April 25, 1557 )
  • Catherine ( * February 7, 1558, † February 13, 1604 ); ∞ Duke Henry II of Lorraine
Henry II of Navarre Henry IV of France Jean Bauhin County of Foix County of Rodez Count of Soissons Catherine de Bourbon Henry II, Duke of Lorraine Integrated Authority File
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