Abstract
The marital and political career of Blanca I of Navarre in the first half of the fifteenth century demonstrates a significant shift in Navarrese foreign policy and the importance of establishing a connection between the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean. Previously the rulers of Navarre had focused their alliances to the North; the House of Champagne, which obtained the Navarrese throne in 1234 and the Capetian and Evreux dynasties that followed had all emphasized French connections in their matrimonial political strategies. The result of this approach was that between 1234 and 1387, none of the rulers of Navarre had an Iberian spouse. However, Blanca’s marriages signaled a period of re-Iberianization for Navarre and a deepening connection with Aragon and its Mediterranean empire, which would dominate Navarrese politics for the greater part of the fifteenth century.
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Woodacre, E. (2013). Blanca, Queen of Sicily and Queen of Navarre: Connecting the Pyrenees and the Mediterranean via an Aragonese Alliance. In: Woodacre, E. (eds) Queenship in the Mediterranean. Queenship and Power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137362834_11
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