Margaret of Valois

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1. Queen Margot, 1533–1615, 1st wife of Henry IV of France: queen of Navarre; patron of science and literature (daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici).

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Margaret of Valois British  

noun

1. 1553–1615, daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici; queen of Navarre (1572) by marriage to Henry of Navarre. The marriage was dissolved (1599) after his accession as Henry IV of France: noted for her Mémoires

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Margaret of Valois

Henry IV. had no children by his first wife, Margaret of Valois.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" by Various

Margaret of Valois, from the French of Dumas, 312.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 by Various

On the conclusion of peace in 1570 he returned to court, where he made no secret of his attachment to Margaret of Valois.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

Unconscious, as many others, of the rapid advance of that fatal event, sat in her chamber Margaret of Valois, Queen of Navarre, the sister of the dying king.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 by Various

Charles and Coligny, however, had their way in the marriage of the King's sister, Margaret of Valois, to Henry of Navarre.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd