Margaret of Navarre

American  

noun

1. 1492–1549, queen of Navarre 1544–49: patron of literature, author of stories, and poet.

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Margaret of Navarre British  

noun

1. Also: Margaret of Angoulême.  1492–1549, queen of Navarre (1544–49) by marriage to Henry II of Navarre; sister of Francis I of France. She was a poet, a patron of humanism, and author of the Heptaméron (1558)

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Example Sentences

Queen Margaret of Navarre frizzed and turned back her abundant locks just as the women of our own day do.

From Maids Wives and Bachelors by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Surely Madame Carolina, as the beautiful and accomplished Margaret of Navarre, might well command, even without a mandate, your homage and your admiration!

From Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The capital was agitated; Francis was absent, and his sister, Margaret of Navarre, held her court there, favoring the new doctrines, encouraging the preachers, the chief among them being her own almoner, Gérard Roussel.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Johnson, Rossiter

That cannot be said of Queen Margaret of Navarre, who carries on the tradition of the Novellieri, and is represented in Painter by some of her best stories.

From The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 by Painter, William

Jean de Montluc, brother of the celebrated Marshal, Bishop of Valence, a friend of Margaret of Navarre, and, like her, a protector of the Huguenots.

From Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Symonds, John Addington