Henry I

king of Navarre
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Also known as: Enrique el Gordo, Henri le Gros, Henry III of Champagne, Henry the Fat
Quick Facts
Byname:
Henry The Fat
Spanish:
Enrique El Gordo
French:
Henri Le Gros
Born:
c. 1210
Died:
July 22, 1274, Pamplona, Navarre
Also Known As:
Enrique el Gordo
Henry the Fat
Henri le Gros
Henry III of Champagne
Title / Office:
king (1270-1274), Navarra

Henry I (born c. 1210—died July 22, 1274, Pamplona, Navarre) was the king of Navarre (1270–74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded his eldest brother, Theobald II (Thibaut V), in both kingdom and countship in December 1270. By his marriage (1269) to Blanche, daughter of Robert I of Artois and niece of Louis IX of France, he had one daughter, Joan, whom, by the Convention of Bonlieu (Nov. 30, 1273), he promised to one of the two sons of Edward I of England, Henry and Alfonso. This would have led to a union of his dominions with English Gascony, but it came to nothing. Both the English princes died in the next decade, and Joan was married in 1284 to the future Philip IV of France.

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