Marguerite de Navarre, also known as Marguerite of Angoulême and Margaret of Navarre, was a princess of France, Duchess of Alençon and Berry, and Queen of Navarre by her second marriage to King Henry II of Navarre. Her brother became King of France, as Francis I, and the two siblings were 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, succeeded as Henry IV of France, the first Bourbon king. As an author and a patron of humanists and reformers, she was an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. Samuel Putnam called her "The First Modern Woman".
Portrait attributed to Jean Clouet, c. 1527
17th century portrait of Charles d'Alençon, Marguerite's first husband.
Henri d'Albret King of Navarre
Francis I and Marguerite de Navarre by Richard Parkes Bonington
The Duchy of Berry was a former province located in central France. It was a province of France until departments replaced the provinces on 4 March 1790, when Berry became divided between the départements of Cher and Indre.
Van Loo, Louis-Michel - The Dauphin Louis Auguste, later Louis XVI
Danloux - Charles Ferdinand d'Artois (1778-1820), duc de Berry