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Jeanne d'Albret
Jeanne d'Albret (7 January 1528 – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III d'Albret or Joan III, was the queen regnant of the Kingdom of Navarre from 1555 to 1572.
Jeanne dalbret biography
Her second marriage to Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, produced her son, Henry of Bourbon. Henry became King Henry III of Navarre and King Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king of France. She became the Duchess of Vendôme by that marriage.
Jeanne was the acknowledged spiritual and political leader of the French Huguenot movement,[1] and a key figure in the French Wars of Religion.
First marriage
[change | change source]As a girl, she had a remarkably strong character.
Her parents wanted her to marry William "the Rich", Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg.
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He was the brother of Anne of Cleves, the fourth wife of Henry VIII of England. She was 12 or 13 at the time, quite normal then for a girl's marriage.
She refused, and her mother had her whipped.[2] The whipping was