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Personal data Jeanne de NAVARRE III 

• She was born on November 16, 1528 in St Germain-en-Laye, Seine-et-Oise, France.
• (Alternative Name) : Jeanne d'Albret.
• She died on June 9, 1572 in Paris, Seine, Île-de-France, France, she was 43 years old.
• A child of Henry de NAVARRE and Margaret d'ANGOULEME

Household of Jeanne de NAVARRE III

(1) She is married to Antoine de BOURBON.

They got married on October 20, 1548 at Moulins, Aisne, Picardie, France, she was 19 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Catherine de BOURBON  1559-1604
2. Henri de FRANCE  1553-1610 

(2) She is married to Wilhelm von JULICH-CLEVE-BERG.

They got married on October 20, 1548 at Moulins, Bourbonnais, France, she was 19 years old.

Notes about Jeanne de NAVARRE III

Jeanne d'Albret (16 November 1528 - 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III or Joan III, was the queen regnant of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, and was the mother of Henry of Bourbon, who became King Henry III of Navarre and IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France. She became the Duchess of Vendôme by marriage.

She was the acknowledged spiritual and political leader of the French Huguenot movement, and a key figure in the French Wars of Religion.

Jeanne was born in the palace of the royal court at Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France at five o'clock in the afternoon on 16 November 1528, the daughter of Marguerite of Angoulême and King Henry II of Navarre. Her mother, the daughter of Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angoulême, was the sister of King Francis I of France. The birth was officially announced the following 7 January when King Francis gave his permission for the addition of a new master in all cities where there were incorporated guilds "in honour of the birth of Jeanne de Navarre, the king's niece". Since the age of two, as was the will of her uncle King Francis who took over her education, Jeanne was raised in the Château de Plessis-lèz-Tours in the Loire Valley (Touraine), thus living apart from her parents. She received an excellent education under the tutelage of humanist Nicolas Bourbon.

Described as a "frivolous and high-spirited princess", she also, at an early age, displayed a tendency to be both stubborn and unyielding. Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, offered to have her married to his son and heir, Philip, to settle the status of the Kingdom of Navarre. In 1541, when Jeanne was 12, Francis I, for political reasons, forced her to marry William "the Rich", Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, who was the brother of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England. Despite having been whipped into obedience, she, nevertheless, continued to protest and had to be carried bodily to the altar by the Constable of France, Anne de Montmorency. A description of Jeanne's appearance at her wedding revealed that she was sumptuously attired, wearing a golden crown, a silver and gold skirt encrusted with precious stones, and a crimson satin cloak richly trimmed with ermine.

This political marriage was annulled four years later on the grounds that it had not been consummated. She remained at the royal court.

After the death of Francis in 1547 and the accession of Henry II to the French throne, Jeanne married Antoine of Bourbon, Duke of Vêndome and "first prince of the blood", at Moulins in the Bourbonnais on 20 October 1548. The marriage was intended to consolidate territorial possessions in the north and south of France.

Jeanne's marriage to Antoine was described by author Mark Strage as having been a "romantic match". A contemporary of Jeanne said of her that she had "no pleasure or occupation except in talking about or writing to [her husband]. She does it in company and in private . . . the waters cannot quench the flame of her love".

Antoine was a notorious philanderer. In 1554, he fathered an illegitimate son, Charles, by Louise de La Béraudière de l'Isle Rouhet, a court beauty known as "La belle Rouet". Antoine's frequent absences left Jeanne in Béarn to rule alone, and in complete charge of a household which she managed with a firm and resolute hand.

The couple had five children, of whom only two survive infancy:
Henry (21 September 1551 - 20 August 1553), Duke of Beaumont.
Henry (13 December 1553 - 14 May 1610), King of Navarre and France.
Louis Charles (19 February 1555 - November 1557), Count of Marle.
Madeleine (11 April 1556 - 26 April 1556).
Catherine (7 February 1559 - 13 February 1604), Duchess of Albret and Countess of Armagnac (1589); married Henry, Hereditary Prince of Lorraine.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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