Marguerite de Navarre

Marguerite de Navarre (French: Marguerite d'Angoulême, Marguerite de Valois, or Marguerite de France) (11 April 1492 – 21 December 1549), also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, is the queen consort of King Henry II of Navarre.

Her brother becomes king of France, as Francis I and the two siblings are responsible for the celebrated intellectual and cultural court and salons of their day in France.

Marguerite is the ancestress of the Bourbon kings of France, being the mother of Jeanne d'Albret, whose son, Henry of Navarre, succeeds as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king.

As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she is an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance.

Samuel Putnam calls her "The First Modern Woman".

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