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- Queen consort whose marriage (1572) to Henry of Navarre, later Henry IV of France, was dissolved in 1599.
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All the great Protestant nobles were assembled in Paris for the marriage of Navarre and Margaret of Valois.
Heroes of Modern Europe Alice Birkhead
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Alexander, a few years later to appear on the pages of history under the altered name of Henry the Third, the last Valois King of France; the younger, a girl of nine -- that Margaret of Valois and Navarre, whose nuptials have attained a celebrity as wide as the earth and as lasting as the records of religious dissensions.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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Margaret of Valois it was a land of enchantment -- a temple, sacred to pleasures of every kind; those of the mind were not neglected.
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Margaret of Valois it was a land of enchantment -- a temple, sacred to pleasures of every kind; those of the mind were not neglected.
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Margaret of Valois it was a land of enchantment -- a temple, sacred to pleasures of every kind; those of the mind were not neglected.
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Margaret of Valois and Henry of Navarre, solemnized three weeks previously.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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It was sanctioned by conferences held at La Rochelle in which on the one side a war was planned against Philip II, all the Calvinist nobility being supposed to enlist; and on the other, the marriage of Henry of Bourbon (the future King Henry IV), a Calvinist and the son of Jeanne of Albret, with Margaret of Valois, sister of Charles IX.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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In February Alessandrino, who had vainly endeavoured to prevent the marriage of Margaret of Valois with the Protestant Henry of Bourbon, closed his report with these words:
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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On the dissolution of his marriage with Margaret of Valois, sister of Charles IX, by the Holy See, in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Nantes, the Franco-Turkish and Franco-English alliances, the annulment of Henry IV's marriage with Margaret of Valois, and the conclusion of that between the Duc de Bar and Catherine de Bourbon,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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