Manouche jeanne d albret paula
Manouche jeanne d albret paula
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JEANNE D'ALBRET, zhan dal"br�': Queen of Navarre; b. at Pau (56 m. e.s.e. of Bayonne) Jan. 7, 1528; d. at Paris June 9, 1572.
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She was the eldest child of Henry of Navarre and Margaret of Angoul�me-Alençon, the sister of Francis I. of France. By the death of her brother John, she became heir-presumptive of Navarre-B�arn, a kingdom which was important on account of its position between France and Spain.
She received a thorough education, although her trend was practical and ambitious rather than scholarly, nor could she sympathize with the intellectualism and mysticism of her famous mother. Suitors for her hand were numerous, and as early as 1535 Francis had intended to marry her to Anthony of Bourbon, but when, in 1540, Charles V.
of Spain sought her as a wife for his son Philip, her uncle decided to wed her to Duke William of Cleves. Despite her resistance, the ceremony was performed on June 14, 1541, but her youth made the marriage a mere form, and her ill health o