Antoine of Navarre
(1518–1562), duke of Vendôme and king of Navarre.Owing to his direct descent from Louis IX in the Bourbon branch, next in line for the French crown after the reigning ...
Henri IV
(1553–1610),King of France and Navarre, born in Pau on 14 December 1533, the son of Antoine de Bourbon (duke of Vendôme) and Jeanne d'Albret (queen of Navarre); he was ...
Jeanne d'Albret Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
(1528–72),
Queen of Navarre, was the daughter of Henri II d'Albret, king of Navarre, and Marguerite d'Angoulême, sister of King ...
Marguerite de Navarre
(1492–1549)Sister of François I and patron of humanism in France. She was close to Briçonnet’s proto-Protestant circle, and her Miroir de l’âme pécheresse (three editions were printed by Augereau) ...
Pierre Viret
(1511–71),French Protestant reformer, born in Orbe (Vaud, which was then independent of the Swiss Confederation) and educated in Paris, where he became a Protestant. On returning to Orbe in ...
