- Eleanor of Navarre
Eleanor of Aragon ( _es. Leonor) (
Olite , Navarre (nowSpain ), 2 February 1426 –Tudela, Navarre (nowSpain ), 12 February 1479) [cf. Anthony (1931)] ,Regent (1455-1479) and the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela. [see Anthony (1931)]Life
She was the third and youngest daughter of John II of Aragón and queen
Blanche I of Navarre .She was born February 2, 1426, and was acclaimed by the "cortes" inPamplona , August 9, 1427, as the legitimate heir of Charles,Prince of Viana , and Blanche.Marriage and Children
She married Gaston IV,
count of Foix , and had the following children with him:*Gaston (1444-1470), he married Princess
Magdalena of Valois ofFrance in 1462 and their children Francis and Catherine both succeeded to Navarre in turn upon the death of their grandmother Eleanor, married Marie d'Orléans
*John (1450-1500),viscount of Narbonne , whose daughterGermaine of Foix was second wife toFerdinand II of Aragon ,
*Peter (1449-1490), cardinal andbishop of Arles
*James (1455-1500), count of Cortes, marriedCatherine of Beaumont
*Mary (1452-1497), married William VIII,marquess of Montferrat
*Joan (1454-1476), married John V,count of Armagnac
*Margaret of Foix (1453-1486), married Francis II,duke of Brittany
*Catherine (b. 1455), marriedGaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
*Isabella (c. 1462-c. 1470)
*Leonor (d. young)Ancestors
References
Bibliography
*Anthony, Raoul: "Identification et Etude des Ossements des Rois de Navarre inhumés dans la Cathédrale de Lescar" (Identification and Study of the Bones of the Kings of Navarre buried at the Cathedral of Lescar), Paris, Masson, 1931
External links
* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/NAVARRE.htm Navarre Kings Genealogy]
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