Margaret of Valois

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noun

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

She had seen the court of the King of Navarre, what time Margaret of Valois made Nerac gay for a whole year, as ever was Paris under the first Francis.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

King of Portugal, affronts Charles IX. by declining the hand of Margaret of Valois, ii.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Charles and his mother had received a rebuff from Sebastian of Portugal, to whom they had offered Margaret of Valois in marriage.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Baird, Henry Martyn

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

Reine Marguerite is probably the translation by Robert Codrington of the Memorials of Margaret of Valois, first wife of Henri IV.

From The Love Letters of Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652-54 by Parry, Edward Abbott