Margarita de Bourbon ( fr. Marguerite de Bourbon ; 1211 - April 12, 1256 ) is the wife of Theobald I of Navarre , Countess of Champagne and Queen of Navarre , daughter of Archambault VIII the Great , Senor de Bourbon . Regent of the Kingdom of Navarra ( 1253 - 1256 ).
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| Predecessor | Constance Toulouse | ||||||
| Successor | Isabella French | ||||||
| Birth | 1211 | ||||||
| Death | April 12, 1256 Bree | ||||||
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| Kind | House Bourbon-Dampier | ||||||
| Father | Arshambo VIII de Bourbon | ||||||
| Spouse | Theobald I of Navarre | ||||||
| Children | sons: Pierre (Pedro), Theobald II of Navarre , Enrique I Tolstoy daughters: Eleanor, Margarita, Beatrice | ||||||
In 1232, Margarita married Theobald I of Navarre , Earl of Champagne and King of Navarre . In this marriage were born:
- Eleanor ( 1233 -?) - died young.
- Pierre (Pedro) (? - 1265 )
- Margarita - Duchess of Lorraine, in 1255 she married Frederick III, Duke of Lorraine ( 1238 - 1303 )
- Theobald II of Navarre ( 1238 - 1270 ) - King of Navarre, in 1255 married Isabella of France (daughter of St. Louis IX )
- Beatrice ( 1242 - 1295 ) - Duchess of Burgundy, married Hugo IV , Duke of Burgundy in 1258 ( 1212 - 1272 )
- Enrique I Tolstoy ( 1244 - 1274 ) - King of Navarre, married to Blanca d'Artois in 1269 .
Theobald I died in 1253 and Margarita became regent with Jaime I of Aragon with her eldest son Theobald II of Navarre before he came of age in 1256 . The kings of Castile have long wanted to become rulers of the kingdom of Navarre in the Pyrenees, and since 1250 Ferdinand III of Castile and his heir, Alfonso X of Castile , planned to marry Eleanor of Castile to Theobald II of Navarre. Fearing increased Castilian influence, Margarita entered into an alliance with Jaime I of Aragon in 1252, solemnly promising that theobald would never marry Eleanor of Castile.
As a result, Margarita married Theobald II to Isabella, daughter of the King of France Louis IX and Margarita of Provence. Eleanor of Castile later married King of England Edward I and was the mother of sixteen children. Margarita died in Brie on April 12, 1256 at the age of 45.