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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 , 1518–62, duc de Vendôme, king of Navarre through his marriage to Jeanne d'Albret; father of Henry IV of France. He converted to Protestantism after his marriage (1548), becoming one of the most influential Huguenot leaders.
..... 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 Guise , influential ducal family of France. The First Duke of Guise


The family was founded as a cadet branch of the ruling house of Lorraine by Claude de Lorraine, 1st duc de Guise, 1496–1550, who received the French fiefs of his father,
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See biography by N. L. Roelker (1968).
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Only in Beam, as explained in chapter 10, were Catholic efforts thwarted by the powerful Protestant influence of the Calvinst queen of Navarre, Jeanne d'Albret.
Catholic Activism in South-West France, 1540-1570 by Holt, Mack P. / Journal of Social History
For example, the authors challenge the image of Marguerite as a cold, distant mother that Nancy Roelker conveyed in her biography of Jeanne d'Albret.
Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance by McKinley, Mary B. / Renaissance Quarterly
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
 
 
 
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