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Birth:          ABT 1244 of Troyes, France
Death:          22 Jul 1274 Pampeluna, Navarre
Burial:         Notre Dame La Reale

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I_of_Navarre
Henry the Fat (Basque: Henrike I.a, Gizena, French: Henri le Gros, Spanish: Enrique 
el Gordo) (c. 1244 – 22 July 1274) was King of Navarre (as Henry I) and Count of 
Champagne and Brie (as Henry III) from 1270 until his death.
Early life[edit]

Henry was the youngest son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon. 
During the reign of his childless older brother Theobald II he held the regency during 
many of Theobald's numerous absences. In 1269, Henry married Blanche of Artois, 
daughter of the then-reigning King Louis IX of France's brother Count Robert I of 
Artois.[1] He was thus in the "Angevin" circle in international politics.

Reign[edit]

Recognized as heir presumptive during his brother's reign, Henry succeeded to the 
thrones of the Kingdom of Navarre and County of Champagne upon Theobald II's 
death in December 1270. Henry I's proclamation at Pamplona, however, did not take 
place till the following year, 1 March 1271,[2] and his coronation was delayed until 
May 1273. His first act was the swear to uphold the Fueros of Navarre and then go to 
perform homage to Philip III of France for Champagne.

Henry came to the throne at the height of an economic boom in Navarre that was not 
happening elsewhere in Iberia at as great a rate. But by the Treaty of Paris (1259), the 
English had been ceded rights in Gascony that effectively cut off Navarrese access to 
the ocean (since France, Navarre's ally, was at odds with England). Henry allowed the 
Pamplonese burg of Navarrería to disentangle itself from the union of San Cernin and 
San Nicolás, effected in 1266. He also granted privileges to the towns of Estella, Los 
Arcos, and Viana, fostering urban growth. His relations with the nobility were, on the 
whole, friendly, though he was prepared to maintain the peace of his realm at nearly 
any cost.

Henry initially sought to recover territory lost to Castile by assisting the revolt of King 
Alfonso X of Castile's brother Philip in 1270. He eventually declined, preferring to 
establish an alliance with Castile through the marriage of his son Theobald to Alfonso 
X's daughter Violant in September 1272.[3] This failed with the death of the young 
Theobald after he fell from a battlement at the castle of Estella in 1273.[4]

Death and legacy[edit]

Henry did not long outlive his son. He was suffocated, according to the generally 
received accounts, by his own fat. His only legitimate child, a one-year-old daughter 
named Joan, succeeded him under the regency of her mother Blanche. Joan's 1284 
marriage to Philip the Fair, the future King of France, in the same year united the 
crown of Navarre to that of France and saw Champagne devolve to the French royal 
domain.

In the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, a younger contemporary, sees Henry's spirit 
outside the gates of Purgatory, where he is grouped with a number of other European 
monarchs of the 13th century. Henry is not named directly, but is referred to as "the 
kindly-faced" and "the father-in-law of the Plague of France".[5]

Parents
____ Theobald (Teobaldo) IV "the Great" (3 May 1201 - 8 Jul 1253)
DE BOURBON Margaret (Marguerite) (ABT 1217 - 12 Apr 1256)

Siblings
OF NAVARRE Henry (Henri) (Enrique) (ABT 1244 - 22 Jul 1274)

Marriage To D'ARTOIS Blanche (1248 - 2 May 1302)
    m. 1269 his 2d, her 1st

Notes

Parents
____ Robert I (25 Sep 1216 - 9 Feb 1250)
DE BRABANT Matilda (Mahaut) (Maud) (14 Jun 1224 - 29 Sep 1288)

Children by D'ARTOIS Blanche 1248 - 2 May 1302
DE NAVARRE-CHAMPAGNE Joann (Jeanne) (Jan 1271 - 2 Apr 1305)

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