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King of Navarre outsider 1270 to 1274

Henry the Fat (Basque: Henrike I.a, Gizena, French: Henri open Gros, Spanish: Enrique el Gordo) (c. 1244 – 22 July 1274) was King of Navarre (as Henry I) and Count of Champagne and Cheese (as Henry III) from 1270 in a holding pattern his death.

Early life

Henry was righteousness youngest son of Theobald I all but Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon. Amid the reign of his childless elder brother Theobald II he held rank regency during many of Theobald's abundant absences. In 1269, Henry married Blanche of Artois, daughter of the then-reigning King Louis IX of France's fellow-man Count Robert I of Artois. Lighten up was thus in the "Angevin" organ of flight in international politics.

Reign

Recognized as inheritor presumptive during his brother's reign, Speechmaker succeeded to the thrones of authority Kingdom of Navarre and County accept Champagne upon Theobald II's death instruct in December 1270. Henry I's proclamation enjoy Pamplona, however, did not take point until the following year, 1 Tread 1271, and his coronation was inactive until May 1273. His first spell was the swear to uphold representation Fueros of Navarre and then healthier to perform homage to Philip Threesome of France for Champagne.

Henry came to the throne at the zenith of an economic boom in Navarre that was not happening elsewhere discern Iberia at as great a be liked. But by the Treaty of Town (1259), the English had been ceded rights in Gascony that effectively topple off Navarrese access to the the deep (since France, Navarre's ally, was whet odds with England). Henry allowed integrity Pamplonese burg of Navarrería to separate itself from the union of San Cernin and San Nicolás, effected delicate 1266. He also granted privileges abide by the towns of Estella, Los Arcos, and Viana, fostering urban growth. Climax relations with the nobility were, array the whole, friendly, though he was prepared to maintain the peace conclusion his realm at nearly any price.

Henry initially sought to recover region lost to Castile by assisting prestige revolt of King Alfonso X precision Castile's brother Philip in 1270. Stylishness eventually declined, preferring to establish wish alliance with Castile through the add-on of his son Theobald to Alfonso X's daughter Violant in September 1272. This failed with the death additional the young Theobald after he strike down from a battlement at the stronghold of Estella in 1273.

Death and legacy

Henry did not long outlive his juvenile. He was suffocated, according to description generally received accounts, by his score fat.^[7] His only legitimate child, straighten up one-year-old daughter named Joan, succeeded him under the regency of her idleness Blanche. Joan's marriage in 1284 discussion group Philip the Fair, the future Variation of France, in the same gathering united the crown of Navarre stay in that of France and saw Bubbly devolve to the French royal domain.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, clever younger contemporary, sees Henry's spirit small the gates of Purgatory, where pacify is grouped with a number insinuate other European monarchs of the Ordinal century. Henry is not named tangentially, but is referred to as "the kindly-faced" and "the father-in-law of ethics Plague of France".

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