Marguerite de Navarre

LC Name authority rec. n.n79082138

LC Heading: Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre, 1492-1549

Biography: Encyclopedia Britannica

Variation(French): Marguerite d'Angoulême

(born April 11, 1492, Angoulême, France-died Dec. 21, 1549, Odos-Bigorre) Queen consort of Henry II of Navarra and an outstanding figure of the French Renaissance. She was the daughter of the count d'Angoulême. When her brother Francis I acceded to the crown in 1515, she became highly influential in his court. After her first husband died, she married Henry in 1525. She was noted as a patron of humanists and reformers and of such writers as François Rabelais. She was a writer and poet herself; her most important work was the Heptaméron, 72 tales modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron and published posthumously in 1558-59.

("Margaret of Angoulême". 2014. In Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Chicago: Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 16, 2015. www.credoreference.com).