First marriage ġ7th century portrait of Charles d'Alencon, Marguerite's first husband.Īt the age of seventeen Marguerite was married to Charles IV of Alençon, aged twenty, by the decree of King Louis XII (who also arranged the marriage of his ten-year-old daughter, Claude, to Francis). Gaston went to Italy, however, and died a hero at Ravenna, when the French defeated Spanish and Papal forces. Perhaps the one real love in her life was Gaston de Foix, Duc de Nemours, nephew of King Louis XII.
When Marguerite was ten, Louise tried to marry her to the Prince of Wales, who would later become Henry VIII of England, but the alliance was courteously rebuffed. The young princess was to be called " Maecenas to the learned ones of her brother's kingdom". Thanks to her mother, who was only nineteen when widowed, Marguerite was carefully tutored from her earliest childhood and given a classical education that included Latin. Another half-sister, Souveraine, was born to Jeanne le Conte, also one of her father's mistresses. Two girls, Jeanne of Angoulême and Madeleine, were born of her father's long relationship with his châtelaine, Antoinette de Polignac, Dame de Combronde, who later became Louise's lady-in-waiting and confidante. She had several half-siblings from illegitimate relationships of her father, who were raised alongside Marguerite and her brother Francis.
Two years after Marguerite's birth, the family moved from Angoulême to Cognac, "where the Italian influence reigned supreme, and where Boccaccio was looked upon as a little less than a god". Her father was a descendant of Charles V, and was thus on the succession line to the French crown by masculine primogeniture, if both Charles VIII and the presumptive heir, Louis, Duke of Orléans, would die without producing male offspring. Marguerite was born in Angoulême on 11 April 1492, the eldest child of Louise of Savoy and Charles, Count of Angoulême. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman". As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. 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. 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 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.
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