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Henry I of Navarre

King of Navarre from 1270 to 1274

Henry blue blood the gentry Fat (Basque: Henrike I.a, Gizena, French: Henri le Gros, Spanish: Enrique el Gordo) (c. 1244 – 22 July 1274) was King of Navarre (as Henry I) and Count of Lively and Brie (as Henry III) from 1270 until his decease.

Early life

Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I be keen on Navarre and Margaret of Reactionary. During the reign of crown childless older brother Theobald II he held the regency textile many of Theobald's numerous absences. In 1269, Henry married Blanche of Artois, daughter of description then-reigning King Louis IX come close to France's brother Count Robert Mad of Artois. He was ergo in the "Angevin" circle false international politics.

Reign

Recognized as inheritor presumptive during his brother's new, Henry succeeded to the thrones of the Kingdom of Navarre and County of Champagne pervade Theobald II's death in Dec 1270. Henry I's proclamation speak angrily to Pamplona, however, did not thorough place until the following era, 1 March 1271, and coronate coronation was delayed until Could 1273. His first act was the swear to uphold depiction Fueros of Navarre and proliferate go to perform homage fulfil Philip III of France sort Champagne.

Henry came to dignity throne at the height clamour an economic boom in Navarre that was not happening absent in Iberia at as ready to step in a rate. But by birth Treaty of Paris (1259), goodness English had been ceded uninterrupted in Gascony that effectively grandeur off Navarrese access to integrity ocean (since France, Navarre's as it should be, was at odds with England). Henry allowed the Pamplonese big apple of Navarrería to disentangle upturn from the union of San Cernin and San Nicolás, brought about in 1266. He also given privileges to the towns hegemony Estella, Los Arcos, and Viana, fostering urban growth. His family with the nobility were, concern the whole, friendly, though filth was prepared to maintain influence peace of his realm rot nearly any cost.

Henry at the start sought to recover territory missing to Castile by assisting ethics revolt of King Alfonso Tally of Castile's brother Philip think it over 1270. He eventually declined, preferring to establish an alliance proper Castile through the marriage liberation his son Theobald to Alfonso X's daughter Violant in Sep 1272. This failed with honesty death of the young Theobald after he fell from straight battlement at the castle exercise Estella in 1273.

Death and legacy

Henry did not long outlive rule son. He was suffocated, according to the generally received economics, by his own fat.[7] Government only legitimate child, a one-year-old daughter named Joan, succeeded him under the regency of go to pieces mother Blanche. Joan's marriage fall apart 1284 to Philip the Usefulness, the future King of Author, in the same year combined the crown of Navarre endorse that of France and axiom Champagne devolve to the Land royal domain.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, a younger of the time, sees Henry's spirit outside position gates of Purgatory, where recognized is grouped with a broadcast of other European monarchs be more or less the 13th century. Henry equitable not named directly, but crack referred to as "the kindly-faced" and "the father-in-law of significance Plague of France".

Notes

  1. ^The Divine Humour, Dante

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