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    Béarn (US: /beɪˈɑːrn/; French: [beaʁn]; Occitan: Bearn [beˈaɾ] or Biarn; Basque: Bearno or Biarno; Latin: Benearnia or Bearnia) is one of the traditional...
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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...
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    Margaret of Béarn – also known as Margaret or Marguerite of Montcada (c. 1245–1250 – c. 1319) was a noblewoman, who ruled (with her husband or for her...
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    Château de Pau (English: Pau Castle, Basque: Paueko gaztelua) is a castle in the centre of the city of Pau, the capital of Pyrénées-Atlantiques and Béarn. It...
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    Margaret of Valois (French: Marguerite, 14 May 1553 – 27 March 1615), popularly known as La Reine Margot, was a French princess of the Valois dynasty who...
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    Chronicles. As the son of Gaston II of Foix-Béarn and Eleanor of Comminges, the future Gaston III was heir to the Foix-Béarn dynasty. This house was established...
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  • Foix, Viscountess of Béarn (French: Jeanne d'Artois; 1289 – after 24 March 1350), was a French noblewoman, and the wife of Gaston I de Foix, Count of Foix...
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    captors, safely passing over the frontier into Béarn before she could be intercepted by the seigneur de Montluc and his troops. At the end of the year...
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    Peter III of Aragon. He married Marguerite, daughter and heiress of Gaston VII, Viscount of Béarn, and he inherited Béarn and Nébouzan from his father-in-law...
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    French) Nicolas de Bordenave, Histoire de Béarn et de Navarre (1517-1572), Chez Madame veuve Jules Renouard, Paris, 1873, p 291 Nicolas de Bordenave, p....
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    viscount of Foix and Bearn (died 1315) and Jeanne of Artois (died after 1350). He is the youngest of the sons of Gaston I of Foix-Béarn, and obtained the...
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    IV (27 November 1422 – 25 or 28 July 1472) was the sovereign Viscount of Béarn and the Count of Foix and Bigorre in France from 1436 to 1472. He also held...
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    11th century by the Viscounts of Béarn, to protect the ford which was a strategic point providing access to the Bearn valleys and to Spain. The city takes...
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    Henry II of Navarre (category Viscounts of Béarn)
    died, followed by Catherine I's demise in her independent dependencies of Béarn one year later, in 1517. Heir apparent Henry was proclaimed King of Navarre...
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    Pau) x 10.05.1873 Gaston marquis de Brassac, prince de Béarn (source dates: page de garde du Formulaire de Prières de la princesse Cécile) │ └──> Blanche...
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    of Béarn. Emancipated on 6 August 1567 (at the age of 13), she was married on Thursday 21 November 1568 to Philibert of Gramont, Seneschal of Béarn, Count...
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    "Françoise-Marguerite-Bayonne mariée à Philippe, Marquis de Lons en Béarn ..." La Chenaye-Desbois 1866, p. 642, line 36. "... et Charlotte-Catherine, abbesse de...
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    European affairs. Henry de Bourbon was born in Pau, the capital of the joint Kingdom of Navarre with the sovereign principality of Béarn. His parents were Jeanne...
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    restoring Jeanne d'Albret, the Huguenot queen of Navarre, to her territories in Béarn, which had been conquered by Catholic forces. He led a rapid campaign, which...
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    Navarre and Béarn, and governor of Bayonne. He was a Knight of the King's order and Knight of the Golden Fleece. In 1668 he married Marie Charlotte de Castelnau...
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  • firstly Marguerite de Foix (died 1304), daughter of Roger-Bernard III of Foix (1240–1303) and Margaret of Béarn, married secondly Berenguela de Montcada...
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  • Queen of Portugal, 1826–28 and 1834–53 Marie de Béarn (d. 1186), Heiress of Béarn, 1170[citation needed] Marie de Sully, Lady of Sully, Lady of Craon, Countess...
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  • son of Roger de Gramont, signeur of Bidache, and Eléonore de Béarn. His brother, Charles de Gramont was the Archbishop of Bordeaux. Early in his life...
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    Jeanne d'Albret and King Antoine of Navarre. She ruled the principality of Béarn in the name of her brother, King Henry III of Navarre, from 1576 until 1596...
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    Béat (Pyrénées) Eaux Bonnes (Béarn) Pont d'Espagne à Cauterets Moulin de Roquettes (Haute Garonne) La Nive à St Jean-Pied-de-Port (Pays Basque) Le passage...
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  • defend the Crown against the lawsuit brought by Renaud II de Pons and his wife, Marguerite de Turenne. This was the first case from Gascony that was appealed...
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  • Jean de Forcade (before 1635, in presumably in Boeil, Béarn – 9 November 1684, in Pau, Béarn), was a Fermier des monnaies de Béarn et Navarre (Lessee...
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    Pierre de Marca (24 January 1594 – 29 June 1662) was a French bishop and historian, born at Gan in Béarn of a family distinguished in the magistracy....
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    married Jeanne d'Albret, the daughter of Henry II of Navarre and his wife Marguerite de Navarre. After his father-in-law's death in May 1555, he became King...
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    grandes figures champenoises – Mgr de Vauréal, chapitre Ambassade en Espagne, de l'Académie française, chez Pierre Béarn, 60, rue Monsieur-le-Prince, Paris-VI...
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