ALBRET

älbrāˈ, former duchy, SW France, in the Landes of Gascony. The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre by the marriage (1484) of Jean d'Albret with Catherine de Foix, queen of Navarre, who also brought him Foix and Béarn. Their son, Henri d'Albret, married (1527) Margaret of Angoulême (Margaret of Navarre). The marriage added Armagnac 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, married Antoine de Bourbon, 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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Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: Dynasty, Homeland, Religion, and Violence in Sixteenth-Century France
Book by David Bryson; Brill, 1999
Subjects: France--History--Charles Ix, 1560-1574--Religious Aspects, Guyenne (France)--Church History--16th Century, Huguenots--France--Guyenne, Jeanne D'Albret--Queen Of Navarre--1528-1572--Influence, Queens--France--Guyenne--Biography, Reformation--France--Guyenne
...Protestantism? 32 Chapter Two: The House of Albret 43 a Pamplona, 10 January 1494 43 h The rise and rise of the House of Albret 44 C Monarchs of Navarre 50...religion. Chapter two, The House of Albret, will show the spreading of the authority...
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More One-Act Plays by Modern Authors
Book by Helen Louise Cohen; Harcourt Brace and Company, 1927
Subjects: American Drama, English Drama, Fiction
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Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots in France
Book by P. F. Willert; G. P. Putnams Sons, 1893
Subjects: France--History--Henry Iv, 1589-1610, Henry--Iv--King Of France--1553-1610, Huguenots--History
...successively to the House of Evreux, Foix and Albret. In 1512 Ferdinand of Spain conquered...other fiefs of the houses of Foix and Albret supplied the means for keeping up some...Her fancy probably fixed on Henry of Albret because he possessed those brilliant...
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The Life and Times of Lucrezia Borgia
Book by Maria Bellonci, Bernard Wall, Barbara Wall; Harcourt Brace, 1953
Subjects: Borgia, Lucrezia--1480-1519, Italy--History--1492-1559
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Olivier de Clisson and Political Society in France under Charles V and Charles VI
Book by John Bell Henneman; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996
Subjects: Clisson, Olivier De--1336-1407, England--Relations--France, France--Politics And Government--1328-1589, France--Relations--England, Hundred Years' War, 1339-1453--Biography, Nobility--France--Brittany--Biography, Soldiers--France--Biography
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Poets into Frenchmen: Timothy Hampton on Literature and National Sentiment in Renaissance France
Journal article by Paul Cohen; Shakespeare Studies, Vol. 33, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Literature and the Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France (Book)--Book reviews
...promote the interests of the house of Albret and its sovereign kingdom. The fortunes...the principalitys ruling family, the Albret, married into the French royal house...possessions of Upper Navarre. (40) The Albrets themselves were old hands at changing...
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Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: Dynasty, Homeland, Religion and Violence in Sixteenth-Century France
Journal article by J.H.M. Salmon; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 54, 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land: Dynasty, Homeland, Religion and Violence in Sixteenth-Century France (Book)--Reviews
...entitled "The Promised Land," deals with the historical background to Guyenne and its associated provinces; the manner in which the Albret dynasty acquired its lands, titles and political authority in the region; and the spread of Protestantism there, including Jeannes...


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Albret
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALBRET albra , former duchy, SW France, in the Landes of Gascony. The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre by the marriage (1484) of Jean...territories, which now included nearly all of Gascony. In 1550, Albret was raised to a duchy. Henris daughter and heir, Jeanne...
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Albret, Jeanne D'
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ALBRET, JEANNE D see Jeanne dAlbret . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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BÉarn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...9th cent.) a county. In 1290 it passed to the counts of Foix, who later became kings of Navarre, and in 1484 to the house of Albret . Protestantism was imposed by Jeanne dAlbret. When her son became Henry IV of France, Bearn passed to the crown. However, it...
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Bourbon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bourbon-Vendome. The marriage (1548) of Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendome, with Jeanne dAlbret added vast territories in S France (see Albret ) and the title king of Navarre to his other fiefs (Vendome, Perigord, Rouergue). From Antoines brother, Louis I de Conde, the...
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Navarre
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the French civil unrest of the time. In 1479, Navarre passed, through marriage, to the counts of Foix and then to the house of Albret. Ferdinand V (Ferdinand the Catholic), after defeating Jean dAlbret, annexed most of Navarre in 1515. The area north of the...
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