Marguerite de Navarre

Marguerite de Navarre
Marguerite de Navarre
	Portrait attributed to Jean Clouet, c. 1527
Queen consort of Navarre
Tenure	24 January 1527 – 21 December 1549
Born	11 April 1492; Angoulême, Angoumois, France
Died	21 December 1549 (aged 57); Odos, Gascony, France
Spouse	; Charles IV, Duke of Alençon (m. 1509; died 1525) ; Henry II of Navarre; (m. 1526)
Issue; more...	Jeanne III of Navarre
House	Valois-Angoulême
Father	Charles, Count of Angoulême
Mother	Louise of Savoy
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry,^[1] and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France. Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman".^[2]

^ Marie Dentiére, Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 51.
^ Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian, Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance (2006).

[1] Marie Dentiére, Epistle to Marguerite de Navarre and Preface to a Sermon by John Calvin (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 51.

[2] Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian, Marguerite de Navarre: Mother of the Renaissance (2006).

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