Isabel d'Albret of Navarre (1512–aft. 1560) was a princess of Navarre. She was the daughter of

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(died 1516) and queen

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. The same year she was born, the greater part of Navarre was conquered by Aragon, and she was raised in France. In 1528, there were unsuccessful suggestions for a marriage between her and the Hungarian king

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, an ally of the king of France. In 16 August 1532, Isabel married René I de Rohan, Viscount of Rohan (d. 1552). Isabel became the godmother of her grand nephew

Henry III of Navarre Henry IV (; 13 December 1553 – 14 May 1610), also known by the epithets Good King Henry (''le Bon Roi Henri'') or Henry the Great (''Henri le Grand''), was King of Navarre (as Henry III) from 1572 and King of France from 1589 to 16 ...

, whom she carried to his baptism in 1554. Isabel came to feel sympathy for Calvinism early on, but did not convert during the lifetime of her spouse, who remained a Catholic. In 1556, she met admiral de Coligny, and was present in Béarn in 1557 when queen

Joan III of Navarre Jeanne d'Albret (, Basque: ''Joana Albretekoa''; Occitan: ''Joana de Labrit''; 16 November 1528 – 9 June 1572), also known as Jeanne III, was Queen of Navarre from 1555 to 1572. Jeanne was the daughter of Henry II of Navarre and Margaret of ...

introduced the Reformation in Navarre. She converted to Protestantism in 1558, and her Castle of Blain became a center of Protestantism in the area. It was at her Castle of Blain that the first Breton church was organized. In Blain, she received the Protestant reformer d'Andelot, who had a mission in Nantes and held the first Protestant sermon there with the reformers Fleurer and Loiseleur de Villiers. In 1560, she was granted personal religious freedom for herself and her household on her own domains by the king of France.

Issue

Isabel and Rene had: *

Françoise de Rohan Françoise de Rohan (1535 – 1 December 1591) was a French duchess and courtier. She served as lady-in-waiting to queen Catherine de' Medici. Life Françoise was the daughter of René I de Rohan and Isabel d'Albret of Navarre. She was the grandda ...

* Louis de Rohan, seigneur de Gié *

Henri I, Viscount of Rohan Henri is the French form of the masculine given name Henry, also in Estonian, Finnish, German and Luxembourgish. Bearers of the given name include: People French nobles * Henri I de Montmorency (1534–1614), Marshal and Constable of France * H ...

, 19th Viscount of Rohan, married Françoise of Tournemine * Jean de Rohan, married Diane of Barbançon * René II, de Rohan, 20th Viscount of Rohan, married Catherine of Parthenay

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