Charles III of Navarre
See also: Charles de Navarre
Charles III of Navarre known as Charles III Noble the ,
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was King de Navarre of 1387 to 1425,
- duke of Nemours and count d' Évreux.
Wire and successor of Charles II of Navarre.
Its marriage with Éléonore de Trastamara, girl of the king Henri II of Castille, in 1375, put an end to the conflicts between the two kingdoms and created a friendly relation which continued at the time of kings de Castille Jean I and Henri III.
It succeeded his father in 1387, and applied to living in peace with its neighbors. It renonça with the claims of his/her father on several provinces of France (1404). In context of economic crisis, of pacifism external and of aristocratisation increasing of company (parallel to what occurred in Aragon), Charles III inaugurated a policy in conformity with the possibilities and the resources of Navarre.
He succeeds in loosening the bonds with Castille, Aragon, France and England thanks to a policy of collaboration, support to the pope of Avignon and matrimonial alliances.
He helped Castille in his wars against Grenade and arranged the marriages of Infant gift Juan, wire of Fernand d' Antequera, with the infantes Isabelle and Blanche (1412).
He sought also peace with Aragon by the marriage of the infante Blanche with Martin the Young person (1402). He proceeded in the same way with France and England.
Alliance between Navarre with the French house of Foix was its work.
Among his political reforms one must retain creation the “Cort” or supreme court (1413).
The abandonment of the expansionism of his/her father enabled him to implement a process of distance compared to France and navarrisation of the dynasty of Évreux. By the Treaty of Paris (1404) were solved the disagreements with Charles VI of France by his renunciation of the French strongholds of its house: the Champagne and the Brie (1404). It had care to name of the Navarreses at the principal stations of government.
It created the title of Prince de Viana (1423) for the heirs with the throne to the kingdom to Navarre, the first being its Charles grandson.
It protected arts, made complete the Gothic cathedral of Pampelune (where it is buried with his wife) and build the royal palaces of Tafalla and Olite, where it died in 1425.
Genealogy
He is the son of the king Charles II of Navarre (known as the Bad one) and of Jeanne de France, (girl of the King de France Jean II the Good and of Good-Judith of Luxembourg).
Marriage and descent
From its union with Éléonore de Castille were born eight children:
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Isabelle d' Évreux (1395 - 1435), in 1419 it married Jean IV of Armagnac
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