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Was a kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees. The southern part of the Kingdom was occupied by Aragon in 1512, whereas the remainder of the Kingdom was merged into the Kingdom of France when King Henry III of Navarre acceded the French throne.
Establishment
January 1036: This then created the duchies of Baigorri and Labort, but upon his death his sons took over the father's lands, leaving the lands of La Rioja, La Bureba , Álava, Vizcaya and Guipúzcoa in the hands of García Sánchez III of Navarra.
Chronology
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On his death, Sancho III of Pamplona divided his possessions among his four sons.
Were a series military campaigns from the 8th century until 1492 by the Christian kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula to reconquer the region from the Islamic rulers that had conquered it during the Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
January 1148: Alfonso VII of Castile and Sancho Ramirez IV of Navarre conquer Andújar and Baeza.
January 1173: All of Muslim Iberia was under Almohad rule by 1172.
Were a series of conflicts between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France that spanned more than a century (with interruptions) from 1337 to 1453. The immediate causes of the conflicts were the English possessions in France which were at the same time vassals of the French Kingdom, as well as disputed claims to the French throne between the English House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois. At the end of the war Englans lost all its possessions in France with the exception of the city of Calais.
3.1.Edwardian War
Was the first phase of the Hundred Years' War between France and England, lasting from 1337 to 1360.
3.1.1.Crécy campaign
Was an English military campaign in northern France during the Edwardian War.
September 1347: In 1347, on the heels of English victory at the battle of Crécy (1346), the Viscount Gaston III Fébus paid homage to the king of France for his county of Foix, but refused to give homage for Béarn, which he claimed to hold from no one but God.
Was a civil war in the Kingdom of Navarre caused by the succession dispute started after the death of Queen Blanche I. The war pitted the supporters of Juan II of Aragon (the husband of Queen Blanche against Charles (the son of Blanche and Juan). The ware resulted in the victory of Juan II who united Aragon and Navarre in personal union.
May 1460: Don Carlos asked King Enrique IV of Castile for help, who mobilized an army that entered Navarre, occupying the towns of Laguardia, San Vicente and Los Arcos in early May 1460 .
Were a series of conflicts covering the period between 1494 to 1559, fought mostly in the Italian peninsula, but later expanding into Flanders, the Rhineland and the Mediterranean Sea. The primary belligerents were the Valois kings of France, and their Habsburg opponents in the Holy Roman Empire and Spain.
5.1.War of the League of Cambrai
Was one of the so-called Italian wars.
5.1.1.Fourth Phase - Alliance between Venice and France
Was the fourth phase of the War of the League of Cambrai, one of the so-called Italian Wars.
January 1514: In Navarre, resistance to Fernando of Aragon's invasion collapsed and he quickly consolidated his power over the whole region.
January 1054: Ferdinand of Leon ceded Bureba to his elder brother García Sánchez III of Navarre.
September 1054: The relationship between García of Navarre and Ferdinand of Leon deteriorated with time, the two disputing the lands on the Pamplonese-Castilian border, and ended violently in September 1054 at the Battle of Atapuerca, in which García was killed, and Ferdinand took from Pamplona the lands in La Bureba and the Tirón River.
January 1065: The Kingdom of Leon extended its control over more of the western territory of Navarre at the expense of Sancho IV.
January 1070: Conquests of Ramiro I of Aragon during the Reconquista by 1069.
June 1076: A conspiracy involving Navarrese king Sancho IV's brother Ramón and sister Ermesinda ended with the murder of the king. The dynastic crisis resulting from Sancho's assassination worked to the benefit of the Castilian and Aragonese monarchs. Alfonso VI of León and Castile took control of La Rioja, the Lordship of Biscay, the County of Álava, the County of Durango and part of Gipuzkoa. The remainder of Navarre became a vassal of Aragon.
January 1135: The status quo between Aragon and Castile stood until the 1134 death of Alfonso. Being childless, he willed his realm to the military orders, particularly the Templars. This decision was rejected by the courts (parliaments) of both Aragon and Navarre, which then chose separate kings.
January 1177: Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor, daughter of Henry II Plantagenet, married, with the Castilian king claiming Gascony as part of the dowry. It turned out a much needed pretext for the invasion of Navarre during the following years (1173-1176). The Navarrese lost the Bureba and Rioja areas.
January 1201: By 1200 the conquest of western Navarre was complete. Castile allowed these territories (with the exceptions of Treviño and Oñati, which were directly ruled from Castile) the right to keep their traditional customs and laws.
January 1277: King Philip IV of France become engaged to the young sovereign of Navarre and married her in 1284. From 1276, the time of the negotiations for this marriage, Navarre effectively passed into French control.
February 1328: The Kingdom of Navarre remained in personal union with the Kingdom of France until the death of King Charles I (Charles IV of France) in 1328.
August 1589: The last independent king of Navarre, Henry III, succeeded to the throne of France as Henry IV in 1589, founding the Bourbon dynasty.
Disestablishment
August 1589: The last independent king of Navarre, Henry III, succeeded to the throne of France as Henry IV in 1589, founding the Bourbon dynasty.
Kingdom of Navarre
