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Jeanne d'Albret

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Jeanne d'Albret (zhän dälbrā`), 1528–72, queen of Navarre (1555–72), daughter of Henri d'Albret and Margaret of Navarre, and mother of King Henry IV of France (Henry III of Navarre). She became queen of Navarre on her father's death. Unlike her consort, Antoine de Bourbon Bourbon, Antoine de (äNtwän` də b
..... Click the link for more information. , whom she married in 1548, she remained one of the staunchest leaders of the French Protestants and one of the bitterest foes of the house of Guise Louis de Lorraine, Cardinal de Guise, 1555–88, was killed at the same time as Henri. After their deaths the leadership of the League devolved upon their brother, Charles, duc de Mayenne .
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See biography by N. L. Roelker (1968).



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9, as well as the biography of Jeanne d'Albret by Nancy Lyman Roelker.
"Tout mon office:" Body politics and family dynamics in the verse ... by Middlebrook, Leah / Renaissance Quarterly
This innovative and scholarly book about Jeanne d'Albret, Queen of Navarre and mother of Henri IV, is not a biography in the usual sense but concentrates on two issues that the author claims are neglected in the late Nancy Lyman Roelker's Queen of Navarre: Jeanne d'Albret, 1528-1572 (1968) -- rather slightingly described as "a psychological interpretation" (69).
Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: Dynasty, Homeland, Religion and ... by SALMON, J.H.M. / Renaissance Quarterly
The memoirs discussed include those of De Thou (the only author writing in Latin), Marguerite de Valois, Tavannes, Jeanne d'Albret, Cheverny, the Duc de Bouillon, Henri de Mesmes, the Duc d'Angouleme, Saint-Auban and the Du Bellay brothers.
Se dire a la Renaissance: Les Momoires au XVIe siecle by Bowen, Barbara C. / Renaissance Quarterly
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