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Albret (älbrā`), former duchy, SW France, in the Landes Landes (läNd), region, SW France.
..... Click the link for more information. of Gascony. The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre Navarre (nəvär`), Span.
..... Click the link for more information. by the marriage (1484) of Jean d'Albret with Catherine de Foix, queen of Navarre, who also brought him Foix Foix (fwä), town (1990 pop. 10,466), capital of Ariège dept., S France, on the Ariège River at the foot of the Pyrenees.
..... Click the link for more information. and Béarn Béarn (bāärn`), former province, SW France, in the Pyrenees.
..... Click the link for more information. . Their son, Henri d'Albret, married (1527) Margaret of Angoulême (Margaret of Navarre Margaret of Navarre (nəvär`) or Margaret of Angoulême
..... Click the link for more information. ). The marriage added Armagnac Armagnac (ärmänyäk`), region and former county, SW France, in Gascony , roughly coextensive with Gers dept.
..... Click the link for more information. to Henri's territories, which now included nearly all of Gascony. In 1550, Albret was raised to a duchy. Henri's daughter and heir, Jeanne d'Albret Jeanne d'Albret (zhän dälbrā`)
..... Click the link for more information. , married Antoine de Bourbon Bourbon, Antoine de (äNtwän` də b
..... Click the link for more information. , and their combined territories were inherited by Henry of Navarre, who in 1589 became king of France as Henry IV. Henry added Albret to the royal domain in 1607 as part of the province of Gascony.

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