Jeanne d'Albret Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
... d'Albret or (English) Joan III ( 1528–72 ), Queen of Navarre, was the daughter of Henri II d'Albret, king of Navarre, and Marguerite d'Angoulême , sister of King Francis I . She married Antoine de Bourbon , who succeeded his father-in-law as king of Navarre in 1555 . As queen she publicly professed Protestantism. On King Antoine's death in 1562 , Queen Jeanne acted as protector to her young son King Henri III of Navarre (later King Henri IV of France), whom she raised as a Protestant. Shortly before her death in June 1572 she arranged the...
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Navarre Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...and from 1314 to 1328 Navarre was incorporated into France. The kingdom subsequently came within the ambit of the crown of Aragon, but in 1484 the crown passed by marriage to the French house of Albret. In 1512 Ferdinand of Aragon conquered southern Navarre, which remained a viceroyalty until being made a province of Spain in 1833 . Queen Jeanne d'Albret and her consort King Antoine de Bourbon retained as their own fief a portion of French Navarre, which remained an independent kingdom until it was absorbed into France by their son King Henri IV ...
Viret, Pierre (1511–71) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
...Reformer , friend of Calvin and often a moderating influence upon him. Viret was chief pastor of the congregation at Lausanne for 23 years and also conducted important ministries at Nîmes and Lyon; he spent his last years teaching in Béarn under the protection of Jeanne d'Albret . A prolific writer of satires and dialogues in French, Viret used a simple, direct, and often sardonic style to persuade both his opponents, in apologetic works such as L'Interim ( 1565 ), and his co‐religionists, in exhortations such as the Remonstrances aux fidèles (...
Jeanne of Navarre (1528–1572) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
... of Navarre (Fr., Jeanne d'Albret ; 1528–1572 ), queen of Navarre. Her ancestry largely determined her character and career. Her father, Henry d'Albret, inherited the rump of the medieval kingdom of Navarre left on the northern side of the Pyrenees after the conquest of the southern part by Ferdinand of Aragon in 1512 . The reconquest of the lost part was d'Albret's lifelong obsession. He insisted on the imaginary title “king of Navarre”—his real possessions being the remnant, Basse-Navarre, and the vicomté of Béarn. This all-consuming ambition...
Bourbon family Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...Anne of France (eldest daughter of King Louis XI ), became duke of Bourbon in 1488 . Their daughter Suzanne married her cousin Charles, the future duke of Bourbon and constable of France. After the constable's death the title passed to Antoine de Bourbon, who married Jeanne d'Albret , heiress of Navarre. Antoine became king of Navarre and their son Henri became King Henri IV of France. A. Leguai Histoire de Bourbonnais (2nd edn.,...
Antoine de Bourbon Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...de Bourbon or (Spanish) Antonio de Borbón ( 1518–62 ), King of Navarre, was a scion of a cadet branch of the French Bourbon family . In 1548 , when he was duke of Vendôme, Antoine married Jeanne d'Albret , the heiress of Navarre, and in 1555 he became king of Navarre. He converted to the Protestantism of his wife, but was capable of professing Catholicism when it was to his political advantage to do so. When Francis II of France died in 1561 and was succeeded by his 10-year-old brother Charles IX , Antonio attempted to secure the regency,...
Antoine of Navarre (1518–1562) Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...a biographical entry on Antoine. Haag, Eugène , and Émile Haag . La France Protestante . 10 vols. 2d ed. Reprint, Geneva, 1966. See vol. 2, pp. 429–437, for a biography of Antoine. Roelker, Nancy Lyman . Queen of Navarre, Jean d'Albret, 1528–1572 . Cambridge, Mass., 1968. See especially chaps. 3 and 4. Ruble, Alphonse de . Le Mariage de Jeanne d'Albret . Paris, 1877. ——. Antoine de Bourbon et Jeanne d'Albret . 4 vols. Paris, 1881–1886. ——. Jeanne d'Albret et la guerre civile . Paris, 1897. Nancy Lyman...
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Claustre [Cloître], Martin (c.1480) Reference library
The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
..., Paris, Bib. N.). In 1521 he sculpted the tomb of Charlotte d’Albret in the church of La Motte-Feuilly, Indre (fragments). As a result of these commissions Claustre settled in Blois, where in 1524 he was engaged to construct the tomb (untraced) of Guillaume de Montmorency and his wife Anne Pot , a commission passed on to Benoît Bomberault by Claustre's widow. Gaignières's drawings and the attribution of a badly weathered recumbent funerary effigy of Jeanne de Penthièvre ( d 1514 ; marble; Paris, Louvre) are all that remains to illustrate...
Viret, Pierre Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...centres such as Geneva, Montpellier, and Lyon. He eventually settled in Béarn under the protection of Jeanne d'Albret . Viret's writings included satires, dialogues, exhortations to the faithful ( Remonstrances aux fidèles , 1547 ), excoriations of opponents ( L'Interim , 1565 ), and a popular version of the theology of Calvin's Institutes , the Instruction chrétienne ( 1564 ). Jean Barnaud , Pierre Viret: Sa Vie et son œuvre (1511–1571) (1911); R. D. Linder , The Political Ideas of Pierre Viret ...
Navarre, House of Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...tuberculosis, on 9 June 1572 ; she was forty-four. The death of Jeanne d'Albret left the burden of the family of Fois-Navarre-Albret-Bourbon to her nineteen-year-old son. He was King of Navarre, sovereign lord in the duchy of Béarn and the count of Soule, duke and peer in Albret, duke of Vendôme and of Beaumont, and count of Foix, Bigorre, Armagnac, Rodez, Pèrigord, and Marle; in addition he held three viscounties and a host of lesser lordships, many of them dependent upon his greater titles. He also had grander prospects. While no one could have predicted a...
Marguerite de Navarre (1492–1549) Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French
...de Navarre (also known as Marguerite d'Angoulême or d'Alençon ) ( 1492–1549 ). Born in Angoulême, daughter of Charles d'Angoulême and Louise de Savoie , she received the same humanist education as her younger brother, the future François I er . She was married in 1509 to Charles d'Alençon ( d. 1525 ), then in 1527 to Henri d'Albret , king of Navarre . Her daughter, Jeanne d'Albret , was mother of the future Henri IV . Throughout her life she was intimately involved in the political life of France, particularly in the period...
Marguerite d'Angoulême Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
...d'Angoulême or d'Alençon or de Navarre ( 1492–1549 ), Queen of Navarre, author, and patron, was the daughter of Charles of Valois, count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy . In 1509 she married Charles, duke of Alençon, and in 1527 , two years after his death, married Henri II D'Albret (Spanish Enrique II ), king of Navarre. Their daughter Jeanne d' Albret was to become the mother of King Henri IV of France. In 1515 Marguerite's younger brother François became King Francis I of France, and thereafter she became a patron of...
Béarn Reference library
The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Reformation
...Arnaud de Salette et son temps: Le Béarn sous Jeanne d'Albret . Proceedings of an international conference, Orthez, France, 16–18 February 1983. Orthez, 1984. Babelon, Jean-Pierre . Henri IV . Paris, 1982. Bordenave, N. de . Histoire de Béarn et Navarre . Edited by Paul Raymond . Paris, 1873. Bulletin de la Société des sciences, lettres et arts de Pau et du Béarn . Bulletin du Centre d'étude du protestantisme béarnais . Dufour, Alain . La Réformation en Béarn d'après la lettre de Théodore de Bèze à Jeanne d'Albret de Janvier 1567. In Actes du Colloque...
