Antoine of Navarre

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Antoine King of Navarre Reign 25 May 1555–17 November 1562 Predecessor Henry II Successor Jeanne III Spouse Jeanne III of Navarre Issue Henry IV of France
Catherine, Duchess of Lorraine House House of Bourbon Father Charles, Duke of Vendôme Mother Françoise d'Alençon Born 22 April 1518
La Fère, Picardie, France Died 17 November 1562
Les Andelys, Eure Coat of Arms of Antoine de Bourbon and the Kings of Navarre.

Antoine de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (22 April 1518 – 17 November 1562), was head of the House of Bourbon from 1537 to 1562, and jure uxoris king of Navarre from 1555 to 1562.

Contents

• 1 Family
• 2 Marriage
• 3 Religion
• 4 Issue
• 5 Ancestors
• 6 Notes
• 7 References

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He was born at La Fère, Picardie, France, the second son of Charles de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme (1489-1537) and his wife, Françoise d'Alençon (d. 1550).[1] He was the older brother of Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé.

On 20 October 1548, at Moulins, he married Jeanne III, Queen regnant of Navarre, daughter of Henry II of Navarre and his wife Margaret of Angoulême.[2] By his marriage, he became Count of Foix, of Bigorre, of Armagnac, of Périgord, and Viscount of Béarn. The Kingdom of Navarre had been occupied by the Spanish since 1512, and Antoine tried to re-establish it. He was ready to sacrifice anything to his political interests.

Although his brother Louis was the head of the Protestant faction, Antoine spent most of his life fighting for the King of France. Catherine de' Medici, regent for her son Charles IX, named him lieutenant general of the kingdom in 1561.[5] When his wife allowed the Huguenots to sack the chapel of Vendôme and the churches of the town in 1562, he threatened to send her to a convent.[6] She took refuge in Béarn.

Antoine was vain and unstable. He often disappointed his followers and was manipulated by his superiors and out-witted by his adversaries.[citation needed]

He laid siege to Rouen and was mortally wounded on 13 November 1562.[2] He died at Les Andelys, Eure.

With his wife Jeanne, he had the following issue:

• Henry (1551–1553), Duke of Beaumont
• Henri IV, King of France (1553–1610)
• Louis (1555–1557), Count of Marle
• Madeleine (1556)
• Catherine of Navarre, Duchess of Lorraine (1559–1604). Married Henry I, Duke of Lorraine in 1599.

With his mistress Louise de La Béraudière de l'Isle Rouhet, he had:

• Charles de Bourbon, Archbishop of Rouen (1554-1610)[7][8][9]

v • d •  Ancestors of Antoine of Navarre                                     16. Louis, Count of Vendôme               8. Jean VIII, Count of Vendôme                       17. Jeanne de Laval               4. François, Count of Vendôme                             18. Louis de Beauvau, Seneschal of Anjou               9. Isabelle de Beauvau                       19. Marguerite de Chambley               2. Charles de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme                                   20. Louis de Luxembourg               10. Pierre II of Luxembourg                       21. Jeanne de Bar               5. Marie de Luxembourg                             22. Louis, Duke of Savoy               11. Margaret of Savoy                       23. Anne of Cyprus               1. Antoine of Navarre                                         24. John I of Alençon               12. John II of Alençon                       25. Marie of Brittany               6. René of Alençon                             26. Jean IV d'Armagnac               13. Marie of Armagnac                       27. Isabella de Navarre               3. Françoise of Alençon                                   28. Antoine de Lorraine               14. Frederic VI de Vaudemont                       29. Marie d'Harcourt               7. Marguerite of Lorraine                             30. René d'Anjou               15. Yolande d'Anjou                       31. Isabelle de Lorraine            

^ Dupuy, Trevor, Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, (Castle Books: Edison, 1992), 98.

^ a b Dupuy, Trevor, 98.

^ Holt, Mack P., The French wars of religion, 1562-1629, (Cambridge University Press: New York, 2005), 52.

^ Bryson, David, Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land, (Koninklijke Brill NV:Leiden, 1999), 219.

^ Duruy, Victor, John Franklin Jameson and Mabell Shippie Clarke Smith, A history of France, (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.:New York, 1920), 338.

^ Bryson, David, 299.

^ Bergin, Joseph, The making of the French episcopate, 1589-1661, (St. Edmundsbury Press Ltd., 1996), 581.

^ Dussieux, Louis, Généalogie de la maison de Bourbon: de 1256 à 1871, (Lecoffre et Fils, 1872), 81.

^ Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon, Vol. 2, (Publisher Mansut Fils, 4 Rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris, 1825), 26.

• Achaintre, Nicolas Louis, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de Bourbon, Vol. 2, Publisher Mansut Fils, 4 Rue de l'École de Médecine, Paris, 1825.
• Bergin, Joseph, The making of the French episcopate, 1589-1661, St. Edmundsbury Press Ltd., 1996.
• Bryson, David, Queen Jeanne and the Promised Land, Koninklijke Brill NV:Leiden, 1999.
• Dupuy, Trevor, Curt Johnson and David L. Bongard, The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography, Castle Books: Edison, 1992.
• Duruy, Victor, John Franklin Jameson and Mabell Shippie Clarke Smith, A history of France, Thomas Y. Crowell Co.:New York, 1920.
• Dussieux, Louis, Généalogie de la maison de Bourbon: de 1256 à 1871, Lecoffre Et Fils, 1872.
• Holt, Mack P., The French wars of religion, 1562-1629, Cambridge University Press: New York, 2005.

Antoine of Navarre House of Bourbon Cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty Born: 22 April 1518 Died: 17 November 1562 Navarrese royalty Preceded by
Henry II De jure uxoris
King of Navarre
25 May 1555 – 17 November 1562
with Joan III Succeeded by
Joan III French nobility Preceded by
Charles de Bourbon Duke of Vendôme
1537 – 17 November 1562 Succeeded by
Henry III of Navarre Princes of the Blood The generations start from the children of Charles de Bourbon Duke of Vendôme by whom all Bourbon's after c.1513; 1st Generation Louis · Antoine, King of Navarre · François, Count of Enghien* · Louis* · Charles, Cardinal de Bourbon* · Jean, Count of Soissons and Enghien · Louis, Prince of Condé 2nd Generation Henri, Duke of Beaumont · Louis, Count of Marle · Henri, Prince of Condé · Charles* · François, Prince of Conti · Charles, Cardinal, Archbishop of Rouen* · Louis* · Charles, Count of Soissons* · Louis* · Benjamin* 3rd Generation Henri, Prince of Condé · Louis, Count of Soissons · Armand, Prince of Conti 4th Generation Louis, Prince of Condé 5th Generation Henri Jules, Prince of Condé · Louis Armand, Prince of Conti* · François Louis, Prince of Conti 6th Generation Henri, Duke of Bourbon* · Louis, Prince of Condé · Henri, Count of Clermont* · Louis Henri, Count of La Marche* · Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon* · Louis Armand, Prince of Conti · Louis François, Count of Alais* · Louis Jean Marie, Duke of Penthièvre 7th Generation Louis, Duke of Orléans · Louis Henri, Prince of Condé · Charles, Count of Charolais · Louis, Count of Clermont* · Louis, Count of La Marche* · Louis François, Prince of Conti · Louis Armand, Duke of Mercoeur* · Charles, Count of Alais* · Louis Marie, Duke of Rambouillet · Louis Alexandre, Prince of Lamballe · Jean Marie, Duke of Châteauvillain · Vincent, Count of Guingamp · Louis Marie Félicité 8th Generation Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans · Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé · Louis François, Prince of Conti 9th Generation Philippe, Duke of Orléans · Louis Henri, Prince of Condé · Louis François, Prince of Conti 10th Generation Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans · Prince Antoine Philippe, Duke of Montpensier · Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais · Louis Antoine Henri, Duke of Enghien* 11th Generation Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans · Louis, Duke of Nemours · François, Prince of Joinville · Charles, Duke of Penthièvre · Henri, Duke of Aumale · Antoine, Duke of Montpensier *died without issue Dukes of Vendôme Hereditary Dukes Charles  · Antoine  · Henri  · César, Légitimé de France  · Louis  · Louis Joseph  · Philippe  · Louis Stanislas Xavier Courtesy title Emmanuel  · Prince Jean

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