Eleanor of Navarre

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Eleanor
Francis
Born2 February 1426
Olite, Navarre
Died12 February 1479(1479-02-12) (aged 53)
Tudela, Navarre
Spouse
(m. 1441; died 1472)
Issue
among others...
HouseTrastámara
FatherJohn II of Aragon
MotherBlanche I of Navarre

Eleanor of Navarre (Basque: Leonor and Spanish: Leonor) (2 February 1426 – 12 February 1479),[1] was a Navarrese princess and monarch. She served as the regent of Navarre from 1455 to 1479, during the absence of her father, and then briefly as the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela.[1]

Life

Coat of arms of Queen Eleanor

She was born in

Charles of Viana
(Charles "IV") and Blanche II of Navarre in succession to their mother. After their mother's death, however, their father occupied Navarre.

She married

Bearn. In 1455, her father deposed her brother and her sister as heirs of Navarre and proclaimed Eleanor as the heir and the regent and general governor of Navarre. In her new capacities, she moved to Sangüesa
. She continued as regent after the death of her brother in 1461. In 1462, she signed the Treaty of Olite, in which she recognized her father as the monarch of Navarre and accepted to have her sister Blanche imprisoned under her care.

In 1464, Blanche died in her care, suspected to have been poisoned. By the treaty, she was recognized by her father as the heir of Navarre and his regent (governor) in Navarre. In 1468, her father killed her advisor Nicolas de Etchabarri, and deposed her as governor. In 1471, however, her father recognized her as the governor of Navarre until his death. At her father's death in 1479, she gave her oath as the monarch of Navarre and died two weeks later at Tudela, Navarre, aged 53.

Marriage and children

In 1441, she married Gaston IV, Count of Foix, and had the following children with him:[1]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ a b c Anthony 1931, p. 10.
  2. ^ Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. 80, 84.
  3. ^ Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. 80.
  4. ^ Ward, Prothero & Leathes 1911, p. 84.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g Woodacre 2013, p. Chart 4.
  6. ^ Krochalis 1996, p. 96.
  7. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "John II of Aragon" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
  8. ^ a b Ferdinand I, King of Aragon at the Encyclopædia Britannica

Bibliography

  • Anthony, R. (1931). Identification et Étude des Ossements des Rois de Navarre inhumés dans la Cathédrale de Lescar [Identification and Study of the Bones of the Kings of Navarre buried in the Cathedral of Lescar] (PDF). Archives du Muséum, 6e series (in French). Vol. VII. Masson et Cie.
  • Krochalis, Jeanne E. (1996). "1494: Hieronymous Munzer, Compostela, and the Codex Calixtinus". In Dunn, Maryjane; Davidson, Linda Kay (eds.). The Pilgrimage to Compostela in the Middle Ages. Routledge.
  • Ward, A.W.; Prothero, G.W.; Leathes, Stanley, eds. (1911). The Cambridge Modern History. Macmillan Company.
  • Woodacre, Elena (2013). The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512. Palgrave Macmillan.

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Eleanor of Navarre
Born: 2 February 1426 Died: 12 February 1479
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Queen of Navarre

1479
Succeeded by