Talk:Jeanne d'Albret

message: Did Jeanne rule Navarre in Basque?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahassan05 (talk • contribs) 08:00, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basque 

message: This article should be titled either Jeanne d'Albret or Joan III of Navarre. The former is undisputably the most common name for this woman. The latter would be consistent with Joan I of Navarre and Joan II of Navarre. The current title is a horrible mish-mash, created as a compromise between the naming conventions and the common name. Surtsicna (talk) 19:21, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''Jeanne d'Albret''' or '''Joan III of Navarre''' 

message: Given that Nancy Lyman Roelker wrote in her biography of Jeanne d'Albret that "at five o'clock in the afternoon of November 16, when the Queen of Navarre gave birth normally to her first child -- and the only one that ever lived -- Jeanne d'Albret..." (Roelker 1968, p. 7) and that Jean-Pierre Babelon in his biography of Henri IV wrote "Jeanne d'Albret, née le 16 novembre 1528 à Saint-Germain-en-Laye..." (Babelon 1982, p. 27), I believe the date of birth should be the 16 November. The 7 January date is that of the announcement: "France learned officially of Jeanne's existence on January 7, 1529, when François I permitted the addition of one new "master" in every city where there were incorporated guilds, "in honor of the birth of Jeanne de Navarre, the King's niece.""  (Roelker, p.9).--CTH (talk) 16:45, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, what you should do to keep the DOB from being constantly reverted is to add this note at the bottom of the article. This is the main problem with the old Julian calendar, 7 January 1528 was actually 17 January 1529! In the 16th century it was 10 days behind and the new year normally began around Easter, hence a lot of confusion over dates. Thank you for your information.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 16:51, 14 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added another ref to back up the 16 November 1528 birthdate: Francis Hackett in his bio Francis the First says on page 347 that Jeanne was born on 16 November 1528. This clinches it. Thanks for pointing it out and adding the sources, CTH! We need editors like you around.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 06:52, 15 March 2010 (UTC)

text: I found other confimation here: "Encyclopedia+of+Women+in+the+Renaissance"+1528+2007+"Jeanne+d%27Albret"Mill 1 (talk) 10:11, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth 

message: The article states
"After the death of Francis in 1547 and the accession of King Henry II to the throne, Jeanne married Antoine de Bourbon, "first prince of the blood", who by his marriage to her became heir to the French throne in the event that the Valois produced no male heirs."
This is incorrect. Antoine de Bourbon could not become heir to the French throne as a result of his marriage to Jeanne, because based on Salic law, women could not inherit the throne nor could they pass it on to their descendants. 
Antoine de Bourbon was the male-line heir to the throne because, though it is hard to believe, he was the senior male-line descendant of Saint Louis, King of France! All other male lines had died out, and descent through a female was ineligible. 
This is an interesting point, and the quote above is incorrect and should be removed. 
The Valois descent was as follows: 
Saint Louis (Louis IX) - Philip III - Charles of Valois (brother of Philip IV as his sons had no male-line descendants, though the English kings claimed the French throne by female descent) - Philip VI of France, the first Valois King - John II - Charles V - Charles VI - Charles VII - Louis XI - Charles VIII. 
Charles VIII had no surviving children and therefore the French throne was inherited by his cousin Louis Duke of Orleans who became Louis XII. He was the closest male-line heir, being the son of Charles Duke of Orleans, son of Louis Duke of Orleans who was the younger brother of King Charles VI de Valois. 
Louis XII had only 2 daughters, and therefore the throne was again inherited by a cousin, King Francis I (who did NOT derive his claim from the fact that he married Louis's daughter Claude). 
Francis I's claim was derived from a younger son of Louis Duke of Orleans (Charles VI's brother), John Count of Angouleme. His son was Charles Count of Angouleme, Francis I's father. Louis XII was Francis's father's first cousin. 
Francis I had one surviving son Henry II who had many children, but none of his sons had surviving children, and none of his daughters or their descendants could inherit. 
Therefore on the death of the last Valois King Henry III, the throne was inherited by Henry of Navarre, who became Henry IV. His descent, as we have mentioned, went back all the way to Saint Louis in the 1200s, since there were no surviving male line descendants of any more recent kings. 
Descent was: 
Saint Louis (Louis IX) - Robert Count of Clermont - Louis I Duke of Bourbon - James I Count of La Marche - John I Count of la Marche - Louis Count of Vendome - John VIII Count of Vendome - Francis Count of Vendome - Charles Duke of Vendome - Antoine of Navarre who married the subject of this article. 
Although this seems incredibly remote, it was well known at the time that Henry of Navarre was the next heir, and as was traditional he married a princess of the old royal house (Marguerite de Valois) even though his claim to the throne did not derive from her. She was put aside when he became King.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Welys (talk • contribs) 12:29, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Husband's claim to the throne 

message: The article is rather brief for someone as notable as Jeanne. Each section needs fleshing out - in particular the Queen of Navarre and French wars of religion sections, seeing as she was a key player in the latter event.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 18:27, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have done quite a bit of expansion. There is a plethora of information about Jeanne which could be added in order to make the article even more complete.--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 17:19, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs fleshing out

message: Mark Strage, Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici. According to a review of his book, "Cape to Cairo:Rape of a Continent", he is said to be a magazine editor and free-lance writer. Therefore, this source would not be considered a reliable source. --Kansas Bear (talk) 04:26, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable source