. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. CHAPTER THE QUEEN OE NAVARRE. HE little kingdom of Navarre, including theprincipality of Beam and five counties, lay-on both sides of the Pyrenees; but in 1515the southern portion was annexed to Spain,which in after years often threatened theremainder. More than once its sovereigntypassed to new hands through failure of amale heir. Catherine, the heiress of thehouse of Foix, famous in the Albigensianwars, was married to a DAlbret in son Henry, who lived til
. The story of our Christianity; an account of the struggles, persecutions, wars, and victories of Christians of all times. CHAPTER THE QUEEN OE NAVARRE. HE little kingdom of Navarre, including theprincipality of Beam and five counties, lay-on both sides of the Pyrenees; but in 1515the southern portion was annexed to Spain,which in after years often threatened theremainder. More than once its sovereigntypassed to new hands through failure of amale heir. Catherine, the heiress of thehouse of Foix, famous in the Albigensianwars, was married to a DAlbret in son Henry, who lived till 1555,espoused Margaret of Valois, the pious sister of FrancisI., who was half a Protestant. At their court, as hasbeen mentioned, Farel, Lefevre, and other early Reform-ers found refuge and welcome. Their only child wasJeanne DAlbret, born in 1518 and married at twentyto Antony of Bourbon. A woman of strong character and unusual attainments,she became a Huguenot in 1560, as a result of careful and dispassionate her husbands death, two years later, she established the new worship, andthen or later suppressed that of the C
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