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- It became an independent kingdom in the 9th century. A succession of French dynasties ruled Navarre after 1234. Incorporated into Castile in 1515, it was united to the French crown when Henry of Navarre became King Henry IV of France in 1589.
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The Kingdom of Navarre, former independent kingdom of Spain which occupied the area of the present province of Navarra. The kingdom was home to sizable Moorish and Jewish populations, and despite its small size in the later Middle Ages, it played a significant role in international politics.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The medieval state took form around the city of Pamplona during the first centuries of the Iberian Reconquista. The kingdom had its origins in the conflict in the buffer region between the Carolingian Empire and the Ummayad Emirate of Córdoba that controlled most of the Iberian Peninsula.
- 10,000 km² (3,900 sq mi)
- Middle Ages
It became an independent kingdom in the 9th century. A succession of French dynasties ruled Navarre after 1234. Incorporated into Castile in 1515, it was united to the French crown when Henry of Navarre became King Henry IV of France in 1589.
Henry IV (French: Henri IV; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry or Henry the Great, was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 1610.
- 2 August 1589 – 14 May 1610
- Jeanne III of Navarre
May 14, 2018 · HENRY IV (FRANCE) (1553 – 1610; ruled 1589 – 1610), king of France and Navarre. Henry IV helped to end the Wars of Religion and established the foundation for France's emergence as a major power in early modern Europe. He was the first of the Bourbon kings, and his family ruled until the French Revolution of 1789 and again during the ...
The Kingdom of Navarre, originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, with its northernmost areas originally reaching the Atlantic Ocean, between present-day Spain and France.
At the time of his succession, Henry IV was under a papal excommunication, which had been imposed by Pope Sixtus V on 21 September 1585, and so the papacy considered it legitimate for Henry's subjects to oppose his rule, both as King of Navarre and, after 1589, as King of France.
