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  2. 5 days ago · Henry IV inherited the throne after the assassination of Henry III, the last Valois king, who died without children. Henry was already King of Navarre, as the successor of his mother, Jeanne d'Albret, but he owed his succession to the throne of France to the line of his father, Antoine of Bourbon, an agnatic descendant of Louis IX.

    • August 1589 – March 1594
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  3. Mar 29, 2024 · Joan was the sole daughter and heir of Henry I, king of Navarre, her brother Theobald (Thibaut) having died at an early age. She married (August 16, 1284) the future Philip IV, thus bringing to the French crown her rights to Navarre and the countships of Champagne and Brie.

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  4. Mar 28, 2024 · Henry II (born April 1503, Sangüesa, Navarredied May 29, 1555, Hagetmau, Fr.) was the king of Navarre from 1516 who for the rest of his life attempted by force and negotiation to regain territories of his kingdom that had been lost by his parents, Catherine de Foix and Jean d’Albret, in 1514.

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  5. 2 days ago · The French Wars of Religion were a series of civil wars between French Catholics and Protestants (called Huguenots) from 1562 to 1598. Between two and four million people died from violence, famine or disease directly caused by the conflict, and it severely damaged the power of the French monarchy. [1] One of its most notorious episodes was the ...

    • 2 April 1562 – 30 April 1598, (36 years and 4 weeks)
  6. 5 days ago · Lower Navarre retained its identity for another century. Queen Joan III took an active role in the French Wars of Religion, fighting on the side of the Huguenots, as did her son, who was known as Henry of Navarre and, later, King Henry IV of France. It was during the reign of that king's son, Louis XIII, that France officially enfolded Lower ...

  7. Apr 7, 2024 · Margaret of Angoulême (born April 11, 1492, Angoulême, France—died Dec. 21, 1549, Odos-Bigorre) was the queen consort of Henry II of Navarre. As a patron of humanists and reformers and as an author in her own right, she was one of the most outstanding figures of the French Renaissance.

  8. 3 days ago · An effort at peace involved the marriage of the king's sister Margaret to Henry of Navarre. A week after the wedding, in August 1572, the Duke of Guise killed Coligny. The violence that followed last five days. Catholics by the thousands targeted Huguenots by the thousands, in what came to be called the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre.

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