White Anger of Navarre

Genealogy

It is the girl of Charles III, king of Navarre and the infante Éléonore de Castille.

Marriage and descent

Sometimes called White of Évreux , in 1403, it marries in first weddings Martin I {{er}} “the Young person” (1374-1409), king de Sicile, wire and heir to Martin I {{er}} “Human” the king d' Aragon (1395 - 1410). By this first marriage, which did not leave children, Blanche was queen consort of Sicily. With died of Martin the Young person in 1409, it is named prosecutor of the kingdom of Sicily.

In 1420, Blanche of Navarre married in second weddings the infant Jean d' Aragon (1397-1479), who became by this marriage king consort of Navarre under the name of Jean II.

Jean was the second wire of the king d' Aragon Ferdinand I {{er}} (1380 - 1416) and of the infante Éléonore de Castille (1374 - 1435). In 1458, with died of his/her older brother the king Alphonse “Magnanime”, he became moreover king d' Aragon, of Valence, Majorque, Sardinia and Sicily, under the name of Jean II, until his death in 1479.

In 1441, after the death of White, Jean II usurped the throne of Navarre until its death, with the successive detriment of their three common children:

(1441-1461): Charles de Viane (1421-1461) - Charles “IV”

(1461-1464): White of Aragon (1424-1464) called White “II”
(1464-1479): Élénore I {{Re}} (v. 1426-1479), with the complicity of this one, to which it made deliver his/her Blanche sister, that she let perish in prison.

After the death of Jean II, Éléonore, which had married in 1436 the count de Foix Gaston IV (1425-1472), became in its turn queen of Navarre, for a few months only, transmitting the crown to its grandson François Phébus.

For purely anecdotic basis, it is necessary to notice that Blanche and its second husband Jean II of Aragon had each one a mother called Éléonore de Castille, which princesses were German cousins.

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