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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. 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 called her "The First Modern Woman".
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Marguerite de Navarre 11 April 1492 Angoulême, Charente, France
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21 December 1549 (aged 57) Odos, Hautes-Pyrénées, France
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Jeanne d'Albret 1st child with Henry II of Navarre Female b. 7 Jan 1528 d. 9 Jun 1572 Age: 44 (at death) 1528-1572 Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572
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