NAVARRE - JEANNE D'ALBRET* - Lot 90

NAVARRE - JEANNE D'ALBRET* May 25, 1555 - June 9, 1572 IOANNA - DEI - G - REG - NAVAR - D - B-. Her bust on the right. Below, P and Vaquette. R/. GRATIA * DEI - SVM - ID - QVOD - SVM - 1566. Crowned shield parti de Navarre, Bourbon, Béarn, Armagnac, Albret, Évreux, Bigorre, Aragon, Castille et Léon, accosted by two crowned I's. ♦ Boudeau 594; P.A.3449 Silver teston struck in Pau in 1566 (9.44 g). Irregular flan. T.B. *Jeanne d'Albret was born on November 16, 1528 at the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and died on June 9, 1572 in Paris. She was Queen of Navarre from 1555 until her death, under the name of Jeanne III. She was the only daughter of Henri II, King of Navarre, and Marguerite de Valois-Angoulême. Niece of King François I, she was raised under his authority at the French Court. She married Antoine de Bourbon, Duc de Vendôme, and was the mother of King Henri IV. An important figure in French Protestantism, she was renowned for her moral rigor and religious intransigence. At the start of the Wars of Religion, she separated from her husband, who had joined the Catholic camp, and established Calvinism on her lands.