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John III, also known as Jean d'Albret (1469 – 14 June, 1516) was jure uxoris
Jure uxoris

Jure uxoris is a Latin term that means "by right of the wife". It is commonly used to refer to a title held by a man whose wife holds it in her own right....
 King of Navarre.

Family
He was a son of Alain I of Albret
Alain I of Albret

Alain I of Albret , called "The Great", was a powerful French aristocrat. He was 16th Lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, the 2nd Count of Graves, and the Count of Castres....
, Lord of Albret
Albret

The lordship of Albret , situated in the Landes of Gascony, gave its name to one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the Middle Ages....
, and his wife Francoise of Châtillon-Limoges.

His paternal grandparents were Jean I of Albret and Catherine de Rohan. Catherine was a daughter of Alain IX, Viscount of Rohan and Marguerite of Brittany. Marguerite was in turn a daughter of John V, Duke of Brittany
John V, Duke of Brittany

John V the Conqueror , was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort, from 1345 until his death....
 and Joanna of Navarre
Joanna of Navarre

Joan of Navarre was a daughter of Charles II of Navarre and Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre. Her maternal grandparents were John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg....
.

Jean I of Albret was a son of Charles II of Albret
Charles II of Albret

Charles d'Albret was a France magnate, administrator, and soldier.He was the son of Charles d'Albret and Marie de Sully. His father died at the Battle of Agincourt, leaving the younger Charles as lord of Albret and titular Count of Dreux, titular count since after Agincourt the lands of the county of Dreux were in England hands....
 and Anne of Armagnac
Anne of Armagnac

Anne of Armagnac, Dame d'Albret, Countess of Dreux , was a French noblewoman and a member of the powerful Gascon Armagnac which played a prominent role in French politics during the Hundred Years War and were the principal adversaries of the House of Burgundy throughout the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War....
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John III, also known as Jean d'Albret (1469 – 14 June, 1516) was jure uxoris
Jure uxoris

Jure uxoris is a Latin term that means "by right of the wife". It is commonly used to refer to a title held by a man whose wife holds it in her own right....
 King of Navarre.

Family


He was a son of Alain I of Albret
Alain I of Albret

Alain I of Albret , called "The Great", was a powerful French aristocrat. He was 16th Lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, the 2nd Count of Graves, and the Count of Castres....
, Lord of Albret
Albret

The lordship of Albret , situated in the Landes of Gascony, gave its name to one of the most powerful feudal families of France in the Middle Ages....
, and his wife Francoise of Châtillon-Limoges.

His paternal grandparents were Jean I of Albret and Catherine de Rohan. Catherine was a daughter of Alain IX, Viscount of Rohan and Marguerite of Brittany. Marguerite was in turn a daughter of John V, Duke of Brittany
John V, Duke of Brittany

John V the Conqueror , was Duke of Brittany and Count of Montfort, from 1345 until his death....
 and Joanna of Navarre
Joanna of Navarre

Joan of Navarre was a daughter of Charles II of Navarre and Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre. Her maternal grandparents were John II of France and Bonne of Luxembourg....
.

Jean I of Albret was a son of Charles II of Albret
Charles II of Albret

Charles d'Albret was a France magnate, administrator, and soldier.He was the son of Charles d'Albret and Marie de Sully. His father died at the Battle of Agincourt, leaving the younger Charles as lord of Albret and titular Count of Dreux, titular count since after Agincourt the lands of the county of Dreux were in England hands....
 and Anne of Armagnac
Anne of Armagnac

Anne of Armagnac, Dame d'Albret, Countess of Dreux , was a French noblewoman and a member of the powerful Gascon Armagnac which played a prominent role in French politics during the Hundred Years War and were the principal adversaries of the House of Burgundy throughout the Armagnac-Burgundian Civil War....
. Anne was a daughter of Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac
Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac

Bernard VII, Count of Armagnac was the Count of Charolais, Count of Armagnac, and Constable of France. He was the son of John II of Armagnac and Jeanne de P?rigord....
 and his first wife Bonne de Berry. Bonne was a daughter of John, Duke of Berry
John, Duke of Berry

John of Valois, the Magnificent, was Duke of Berry and Rulers of Auvergne and Count of Poitiers and Montpensier. He was the third son of King John II of France and Bonne of Luxemburg; his brothers were Charles V of France, Louis I of Naples and Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy....
 and his first wife Joanna of Armagnac. John, Duke of Berry was the third son of John II, King of France
John II of France

John II , called John the Good , was Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, and Duke of Normandy from 1332, Count of Poitiers from 1344, Duke of Aquitaine from 1345, and King of France from 1350 until his death, as well as Duke of Burgundy from 1361 to 1363....
, and his second wife Bonne of Bohemia
Bonne of Bohemia

Bonne of Luxemburg , was born Jutta, the daughter of John I, Count of Luxemburg, king of Bohemia and his first wife Elisabeth I of Bohemia. Jutta was referred to in French historiography as Bonne de Luxembourg....
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Charles II of Albret was a son of Marie de Sully and Charles d'Albret
Charles d'Albret

File:Armoiries Albret moderne.pngCharles d'Albret was Constable of France two different times: from 1402 until 1411, and again from 1413 until 1415....
, Constable of France
Constable of France

The Constable of France , as the First Officer of the Crown, was one of the original five Great Officers of the Crown of France and Commander in Chief of the army....
 and co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt
Battle of Agincourt

The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a much larger French army in the Hundred Years' War. The battle occurred on Friday 25 October 1415 ...
 where he was killed.

King of Navarre


He became king of Navarre by virtue of his 1484 marriage to Catherine, Countess of Foix (1470-1517), Queen
Queen regnant

A queen regnant is a qualifying reference to a female monarch possessing and exercising all of the monarchical powers of a ruler, in contrast to a "queen consort", who is the wife of a male reigning as monarch and who is without any official powers of state....
 of Navarre since the death of her brother Francis Phoebus in 1483.

In 1512, Jean d'Albret was defeated by Ferdinand II of Aragon
Ferdinand II of Aragon

Ferdinand the Catholic was king of Aragon , Sicily , Naples , Valencia , Sardinia and Navarre, Count of Barcelona, de jure uxoris King of Crown of Castile and then Regent of that country also from 1508 to his death, in the name of his mentally unstable daughter Joanna the Mad....
, whose second wife was Germaine de Foix (1490-1538), a cousin of Queen Catherine. Navarre south of the Pyrenees
Pyrenees

The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain. They separate the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of continental Europe, and extend for about from the Bay of Biscay to the Mediterranean Sea ....
 was annexed by the victorious Ferdinand and remained a domain of the Kings of Spain, who also bore the title of Kings of Navarre, until 1833, when it was completely integrated into Spain.

Lower Navarre
Lower Navarre

Lower Navarre is a part of the present day Pyr?n?es Atlantiques d?partement in France of France. Along with Navarre of Spain, it was once ruled by the Kings of Navarre....
 remained with John and his successors as Kings of Navarre, increasingly under French influence. After King Henry of Navarre
Henry IV of France

Henry de Bourbon, , ruled as Henry III, List of Navarrese monarchs, from 1572 to 1610, and as Henry IV, List of French monarchs, from 1589 to 1610....
 had mounted the French throne in 1589, he and his successors styled themselves Kings of France and Navarre until the French Revolution
French Revolution

The French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudalism for the aristocracy and Roman Catholic Church clergy, underwent radical change to forms based on Age of Enlightenment principles of cit...
 merged Lower Navarre with France.

Children


He and Catherine of Navarre
Catherine of Navarre

Catherine , was List of Navarrese monarchs , duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and Pe?afiel, countess of Counts of Foix, Bigorre, and Ribagorza, and viscountess of B?arn....
 were parents to thirteen children:

  • Ana d'Albret of Navarre (19 May, 1492 - 15 August, 1532).
  • Madealena d'Albret of Navarre (29 March, 1494 - May, 1504).
  • Catalina d'Albret of Navarre (1495 - November, 1532). Abbess of the Trinity at Caen
    Caen

    Caen is a commune in France in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the Calvados Departments of France and the capital of the Basse-Normandie r?gion in France....
    .
  • Juana d'Albret of Navarre (15 June, 1496 - last mentioned in November, 1496).
  • Quiteria d'Albret of Navarre (1499 - September/October, 1536). Abbess at Montivilliers
    Montivilliers

    Montivilliers is a communes of the Seine-Maritime d?partement and chief town of a cantons of France in the Seine-Maritime departments of France of the Haute-Normandie region of northern France....
    .
  • A stillborn son in 1500.
  • Andres Febo d'Albret of Navarre (14 October, 1501 - 17 April, 1503).
  • Henry II of Navarre
    Henry II of Navarre

    Henry II , was the eldest son of John III of Navarre and Catherine of Navarre, sister and heiress of Francis Phoebus, King of Navarre; he was born at Sang?esa - Zangoza in April 1503....
     (18 April, 1503 - 25 May, 1555).
  • Buenaventura d'Albret of Navarre (14 July, 1505 - 1510/1511).
  • Martin d'Albret of Navarre (c. 1506 - last mentioned in 1512).
  • Francisco d'Albret of Navarre (1508 - last mentioned in 1512).
  • Carlos d'Albret of Navarre (12 December, 1510 - September, 1528). Took part in the Siege of Naples during the War of the League of Cognac
    War of the League of Cognac

    The War of the League of Cognac was fought between the Habsburg dominions of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor?primarily Spain and the Holy Roman Empire?and the League of Cognac, an alliance including France, Pope Clement VII, the Republic of Venice, England, the Duchy of Milan, and Florence....
     but was captured. Died while still held as a prisoner of war
    Prisoner of war

    A prisoner of war is a combatant who is held in continuing custody by an enemy power during or immediately after an armed conflict....
    .
  • Isabel d'Albret of Navarre (1513/1514 - last mentioned in 1555). Married Rene I, Viscount of Rohan.


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