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Eleanor of Aragon (Spanish: Leonor) (Olite, Navarre (now Spain), 2 February 1426 – Tudela, Navarre (now Spain), 12 February 1479), Regent (1455-1479) and the queen regnant of Navarre in 1479. She was crowned on 28 January 1479 in Tudela.

Life

She was the third and youngest daughter of John II of Aragón and queen Blanche I of Navarre. She was born February 2, 1426, and was acclaimed by the cortes in Pamplona, August 9, 1427, being the legitimate heir of Charles, Prince of Viana, and Blanche.

Marriage and Children

She married Gaston IV, count of Foix, and had the following children with him:

Gaston (1444-1470), he married Princess Magdalena of Valois of France in 1462 and their children Francis and Catherine both succeeded to Navarre in turn upon the death of their grandmother Eleanor, married Marie d'Orléans
John (1450-1500), viscount of Narbonne, whose daughter Germaine of Foix was second wife to Ferdinand II of Aragon,
Peter (1449-1490), cardinal and bishop of Arles
James (1455-1500), count of Cortes, married Catherine of Beaumont
Mary (1452-1497), married William VIII, marquess of Montferrat
Joan (1454-1476), married John V, count of Armagnac
Margaret of Foix (1453-1486), married Francis II, duke of Brittany
Catherine (b.1455), married Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
Isabella (c.1462-c.1470)
Leonor (d. young)

Ancestors

Eleanor's ancestors in three generations>

Eleanor of Navarre	Father: John II of Aragon	Paternal Grandfather: Ferdinand I of Aragon	Paternal Great-grandfather: John I of Castile
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor of Aragon
		Paternal Grandmother: Eleanor of Alburquerque	Paternal Great-grandfather: Sancho of Alburquerque
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Infanta Beatriz, Countess of Alburquerque
	Mother: Blanche I of Navarre	Maternal Grandfather: Charles III of Navarre	Maternal Great-grandfather: Charles II of Navarre
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre
		Maternal Grandmother: Eleanor of Castile	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry II of Castile
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Juana Manuel of Castile

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