Eleanor of Aragon (Spanish: Leonor) (Olite, Navarre (now Spain), 2 February 1426 – Tudela, Navarre (now Spain), 12 February 1479)[1], Regent (1455-1479) and the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela.[2]
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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 in Pamplona, 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 of France 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 daughter Germaine of Foix was second wife to Ferdinand II of Aragon,
- Peter (1449-1490), cardinal and bishop of Arles
- James (1455-1500), count of Cortes, married Catherine 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), married Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
Ancestors
| Eleanor of Navarre | Father: John II of Aragon |
Paternal Grandfather: Ferdinand I of Aragon |
Paternal Great-grandfather: John I of Castile |
| Paternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor of Aragon |
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| Paternal Grandmother: Eleanor of Alburquerque |
Paternal Great-grandfather: Sancho of Alburquerque |
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| Paternal Great-grandmother: Infanta Beatriz, Countess of Alburquerque |
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| Mother: Blanche I of Navarre |
Maternal Grandfather: Charles III of Navarre |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Charles II of Navarre |
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| Maternal Great-grandmother: Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre |
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| Maternal Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile |
Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry II of Castile |
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| Maternal Great-grandmother: Juana Manuel of Castile |
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Eleanor of Navarre
Born: 2 February 1426 Died: 12 February 1479 |
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| Preceded by John II |
Queen of Navarre 1479 |
Succeeded by Francis |
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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
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