Subject: Re: Navarre; was: more about the newly reported quintipoints<br/>
Date: Dec 01, 2001 @ 20:12<br/>
Author: Peter Smaardijk (&quot;Peter Smaardijk&quot; &lt;smaardijk@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1332841701">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., Anton Sherwood &lt;bronto@p...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Peter Smaardijk wrote:<br/>
&gt; &gt; When this part [northern Navarre] became part of France,<br/>
&gt; &gt; the kings of France got the title &quot;King of Navarre&quot;, too.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Or the other way around.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; (In 1562, Henri de Bourbon succeeded his mother (to simplify <br/>
 </span></blockquote>slightly)<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; as king of Navarre; and in 1589 he succeeded a distant cousin as <br/>
 </span></blockquote>king<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; of France.)<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>Yes, true. It&#39;s just me oversimplifying things again. But after the <br/>
invasion of all but Lower Navarre by the Castilians (they tried to <br/>
get that part, too, but retreated in 1530), there was not a lot left <br/>
of the former kingdom. So when Henry III of Navarre decided that <br/>
Paris was worth a little mass, and thus became Henry IV of France as <br/>
well, it was a logical choice to make. Louis XIII did away with the <br/>
distinction of the two kingdoms (but keeping the title King of <br/>
Navarre, of course).<br/>
<br/>
In between the invasion of the Castilians and Henry III becoming IV, <br/>
Lower Navarre was one big mess of religious and seigneurial wars.<br/>
<br/>
Peter S.</div>