Alain d\' Albret

Alain d' Albret , known as Large the (1440 - 1522), was 16th lord of Albret, Viscount of Tartas, 2nd count de Graves and count de Castres.

Presentation

The grandson and heir to Charles II becomes the chief of the house of Albret in 1471.

Skilful but changeable, avid and not very scrupulous, it follows during one half-century a policy agitated more than effective, according to the example of his father, but who does of him one of the actors in sight on the European scene.

It benefits initially from its fidelity with Louis XI and increases his principality. He marries Francoise de Châtillon, which brings to him the heritage of the county of Périgord and the Viscount of Limoges.

Having a time put the hand on the Armagnac, it Marie her son Jean with Catherine de Foix, heiress of the counties of Foix and Bigorre and of the Kingdom of Navarre.

The insane War

He is then candidate with the heritage of the duke of Brittany François II and with the hand of Anne of Brittany and enters on this occasion in rebellion against the royal authority. Its intrigues do not succeed and it is overcome without being able to give its support for the duke of Brittany in 1487. The following year, it brings its reinforcements by sea, but it is beaten with François II with Saint-Aubin-of-Cormier the. It however continues to claim with the heritage of François II but finds advantageous to deliver Nantes which one had entrusted the guard to him, to the royal army.

Alain d' Albret dies in 1522.

His/her daughter, Charlotte d' Albret, married César Borgia in 1500 and his/her back-small-girl, who married Antoine of Bourbon, was the mother of the king Henri IV.

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