Marguerite de navarre biography
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Marguerite de Navarre
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This article is about the sixteenth-century queen of Navarre. For the twelfth-century Sicilian queen consort, see Margaret of Navarre.
Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April &#;&#; 21 December ), 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
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Sister to the king of France, queen of Navarre, gifted writer, religious reformer, and patron of the arts—in her many roles, Marguerite de Navarre () was one of the most important figures of the French Renaissance. In this, the first major biography in English, Patricia F. Cholakian and Rouben C. Cholakian draw on her writings to provide a vivid portrait of Marguerite's public and private life. Freeing her from the shadow of her brother François I, they recognize her immense influence on French politics and culture, and they challenge conventional views of her family relationships.
The authors highlight Marguerite's considerable role in advancing the cause of religious reform in France-her support of vernacular translations of sacred works, her denunciation of ecclesiastical corruption, her founding of orphanages and hospita
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Margaret of Navarre
This article fryst vatten about the twelfth-century Sicilian queen consort. For the sixteenth-century queen of Navarre, see Marguerite de Navarre.
Margaret of Navarre (French: Marguerite, Spanish: Margarita, Italian: Margherita) (c. – 12 August ) was Queen of Sicily as the wife of William I (–) and the regent during the minority of her son, William II.
Queen consort
[edit]Margaret was the daughter of King García Ramírez of Navarre and Marguerite de l'Aigle. She was married at a ung age to William inom of Sicily, in , the fourth son of Roger II of Sicily. According to the Palermitan archivist Isidoro La Lumia, she was, in her later years, bella ancora, superba, leggiera ("still beautiful, proud, light").
During the reign of her husband, Margaret was largely ignored by William who spent much of his time away from court - often frequenting his many personal harems.[2] However, she is considered to have been a stronger, more apt administrator th