Marguerite Navarre

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    Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite d'Alençon; 11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, 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.

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    About Marguerite Navarre

    Marguerite de Navarre, a French princess, was a Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage. Her brother, Francis I, was the King of France. Together, they fostered the intellectual and cultural court and salons of the French Renaissance. She was a patron of humanists and reformers, earning her the title 'The First Modern Woman' from Samuel Putnam.

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    French Renaissance, Humanism, Reformation, Intellectual and Cultural Salons, Royal Lineage, Literature, and Patronage

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    I am 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.

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