See also: List of Navarrese consorts.
This is a list of the kings and queens of Pamplona, later Navarre. Pamplona was the primary name of the kingdom until its union with Aragon (1076–1134). However, the territorial designation Navarre came into use as an alternative name in the late tenth century, and the name Pamplona was retained well into the twelfth century.
The Íñiguez dynasty are credited with founding the Navarrese kingdom (of Pamplona) in or around 824 when they are said to have risen against an attempt to extend Frankish (Carolingian) authority into the region. The Cordoban sources referred to them as sometimes-rebellious vassals, rather than in the manner used to refer to the Christian realms outside their control. They were supplanted in 905 when an anti-Cordoba coalition placed the succeeding Jiménez dynasty in power.
| Name | Portrait | Birth | Marriages | Death |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Íñigo Arista 824?–851/52 | 4 children | 851/52 | ||
| García Íñiguez 851/52–882 | son of Íñigo Arista | Urraca 5 children | 882 | |
| Fortún Garcés 882–905 | son of García Íñiguez | Auria 5 children | 922 (deposed 905) | |
In 905, a coalition of neighbors forced Fortún Garcés to retire to a monastery, and enthroned in his place a scion of a new dynasty. Under their reign, the name Navarre began to supplant that of Pamplona.|-| Sancho I Garcés
905–925|| ||son of García Jiménez and Dadildis de Pallars||Toda of Navarre
6 children||11 December 925
Resa|-|Jimeno Garcés
925–931|| ||son of García Jiménez and Dadildis de Pallars||Sancha of Navarre
3 children||29 May 931|-|García Sánchez I
931–970|| ||919
son of Sancho I Garcés and Toda of Navarre||Andregota Galíndez of Aragón
2 children
Teresa Ramírez of León
3 children||22 February 970
aged 51|-|Sancho II Garcés Abarca
970–994||||after 935
son of García Sánchez I and Andregota||Urraca Fernández
4 children||December 994|-|García Sánchez II
994–1000/04|| ||son of Sancho II Garcés Abarca and Urraca Fernández||Jimena Fernández of Cea
981
4 children||1000/04|-|Sancho III the Great
1004–1035|| ||985
son of García Sánchez II and Jimena Fernández of Cea||Muniadona of Castile
1010
4 children||18 October 1035|-|García Sánchez III
1035–1054|| ||1016
son of Sancho III the Great and Muniadona of Castile||Estefanía of Barcelona
1038
9 children||15 September 1054
Atapuerca|-|Sancho IV Garcés
1054–1076|| ||1039
son of García Sánchez III and Estefanía of Barcelona||Placencia
1068
3 children||4 June 1076
Peñalén|-|}
With the assassination of Sancho IV, Navarre was partitioned by his cousins Alfonso VI of León and Sancho Ramírez of Aragón, and the latter made king, leading to more than half a century of Aragonese control.
|-|Sancho V Ramírez
1076–1094||||1042
son of Ramiro I of Aragón and Ermesinde of Bigorre||Isabel of Urgel
1065
1 child
Felicia of Roucy
1076
3 children||4 June 1094
Huesca
aged approximately 52|-|Peter
1094–1104||||1068
son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragón and Navarre and Isabella of Urgel||Agnes of Aquitaine
1086
2 children
Bertha of Aragón
1097
No children||28 September 1104
Aran Valley
aged approximately 36|-|Alfonso I the Battler
1104–1134||||1073
son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragón and Navarre and Felicia of Roucy||Urraca of León
1109
No children||8 September 1134
Huesca
aged approximately 61|-|}
The death of Alfonso led to a succession crisis in Aragón and the nobles of Navarre took advantage to reestablish an independent monarchy, crowning a grandnephew (through an illegitimate brother) of the assassinated Sancho IV.|-|García Ramírez the Restorer
1134–1150||||son of Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón and Cristina Rodríguez||Marguerite de l'Aigle
1130
4 children
Urraca of León
24 June 1144
2 children||21 November 1150
Lorca|-|Sancho VI the Wise
1150–1194||||1133
son of García Ramírez and Marguerite de l'Aigle||Sancha of Castile
1157
6 children||27 June 1194
Pamplona|-|Sancho VII the Strong
1194–1234||||1157
Tudela
son of Sancho VI of Navarre and Sancha of Castile||Constance of Toulouse
1195
No children
Clemence (of Hohenstaufen?)
aft. 1201
1 son||7 April 1234
Tudela|-|}
See also: Count of Champagne. The death of Sancho VII, the last of the Jiménez kings, led to the crown of Navarre being inherited by the son of his sister Blanche, Countess of Champagne, she having been regent during much of her brother's reign.|-|Theobald I the Posthumous
1234–1253||||30 May 1201
Troyes
son of Theobald III of Champagne and Blanche of Navarre||Gertrude of Dagsburg
1220
No children
Agnes of Beaujeu
1222
1 child
Margaret of Bourbon
1232
6 children||8 July 1253
Pamplona
aged 52|-|Theobald II the Young
1253–1270||||1238
son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon||Isabelle of France
6 April 1255
No children||4 December 1270
Trapani
aged 32|-|Henry I the Fat
1270–1274||||1244
son of Theobald I of Navarre and Margaret of Bourbon||Blanche of Artois
1269
2 children||22 July 1274
aged 30|-|Joan I
1274–1305||||14 January 1271
Bar-sur-Seine
daughter of Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois||Philip IV of France
16 August 1284
7 children||4 April 1305
Château de Vincennes
aged 34|-|}
See also: Kings of France.
Henry's unexpected death left his infant daughter Joan as the only heir to the throne. Joan's mother Blanche of Artois served as regent for the next ten years. In 1284 Joan was married to the future Philip IV of France, ending Blanche's regency. Philip assumed the throne of France a year later as "King of France and Navarre".
|-|Philip I the Fair
Philip IV of France
1284–1305||||1268
Fontainebleau
son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon||Joan I of Navarre
16 August 1284
7 children||29 November 1314
Fontainebleau
aged 46||By the right of his wife, Joan I|-|Louis I the Quarreller
Louis X of France
1305–1316||||4 October 1289
Paris
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre||Margaret of Burgundy
21 September 1305
1 child
Clementia of Hungary
19 August 1315
1 child||5 June 1316
Vincennes
aged 26||By the right of his mother, Joan I|-|John I the Posthumous
of France
1316||||15 November 1316
Paris
son of Louis X of France and Clementia of Hungary||never married||20 November 1316
Paris
5 days||By the right of his father, Louis X|-|Philip II the Tall
Philip V of France
1316–1322||||1292
Lyon
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre||Joan II, Countess of Burgundy
1307
7 children||3 January 1322
Longchamp
aged 29||By the right of his mother, Joan I|-|Charles I the Fair
Charles IV of France
1322–1328||||19 June 1294
Clermont
son of Philip IV of France and Joan I of Navarre||Blanche of Burgundy
1307
2 children
Marie of Luxembourg
1322
2 children
Jeanne d'Évreux
1325
3 children||1 February 1328
Vincennes
aged 34||By the right of his mother, Joan I|-|Joan II
1328–1349||||28 January 1312
Charenton-le-Pont
daughter of Louis X of France and Margaret of Burgundy||Philip III of Navarre
8 children||6 October 1349
Charenton-le-Pont
aged 37||
|-|}
See also: Count of Évreux. After the deaths of Louis and his infant son John, his brothers Philip and Charles held the crowns of France and Navarre until their own deaths. At that time, the crown of France passed to Philip of Valois, a distant cousin who was not descended from Joan I, and the crown of Navarre was allowed to pass to Louis' daughter Joan II, despite her presumed illegitimacy. Joan reigned together with her husband Philip III until his death, and then alone until her own death. |-|Philip III the Wise
(jure uxoris)
1328–1343||||27 March 1306
son of Louis count of Evreux and Margaret of Artois||Joan II of Navarre
8 children||16 September 1343
Jerez de la Frontera
aged 37|-|Charles II the Bad
1349–1387||||10 October 1332
Évreux
son of Philip III of Navarre and Joan II of Navarre||Joan of France
7 children||1 January 1387
Pamplona
aged 54|-|Charles III the Noble
1387–1425||||22 July 1361
Nantes
son of Charles II of Navarre and Joan of France||Eleanor of Castile
1375
8 children||8 September 1425
Olite
aged 64|-|Blanche Ι
1425–1441||||1387
Castile
daughter of Charles III of Navarre and Eleanor of Castile||Martin I of Sicily
26 December 1402
1 child
John II of Aragon
10 June 1420
4 children||3 April 1441
Santa María la Real de Nieva
aged 56|-|}
See also: King of Aragon, King of Valencia, Count of Barcelona and King of Sicily.
Blanche I reigned together with her husband John II. In 1458, John additionally inherited the crown of Aragon from his older brother; after his death, the Navarrese crown was given to Eleanor, the only living child of him and Blanche, while his Aragonese crown was given to Ferdinand II of Aragon, son of John and his second wife Juana Enríquez. |-|John II the Great
1425–1441 (jure uxoris)
1425–1479 (de facto)||||29 June 1397
Medina del Campo
son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque||Blanche
6 November 1419
4 children
Juana Enríquez
2 children
||20 January 1479
Barcelona
aged 81|-|Eleanor
1479||||2 February 1425
Olite
daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche||Gaston IV, Count of Foix
11 children||12 February 1479
Tudela
aged 54|-|}
After Blanche's death in 1441, John retained the crown of Navarre for himself until he died 38 years later, keeping it from his son and elder daughter, Charles IV and Blanche II. Conflict with his son led to the Navarrese Civil War. Though some of the sources regard Charles and Blanche as the legitimate monarchs, the de facto king of Navarre was still John II. Eleanor did not claim to be the queen until her father's death.|-|Charles IV
1441–1461 (de jure, titular)||||29 May 1421
Peñafiel
son of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre||Agnes of Cleves
No children||23 September 1461
Barcelona
aged 40|-|Blanche II
1461–1464 (de jure, titular)||||1424
Olite
daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre||Henry IV of Castile
No children ||2 December 1464
Orthez
aged 40|-|}
See also: Counts of Foix. Eleanor, who had allied with her father against her brother and sister, outlived her father by only three weeks. By that time she was the widow of Gaston IV, Count of Foix, and their oldest son Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana had also died. She was thus succeeded by her grandson Francis. |-|Francis Phoebus
1479–1483|||||4 December 1467
son of Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana, and Magdalena of Valois||never married||7 January 1483
Pau
aged 15|-|Catherine
1483–1517||||1468
daughter of Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana, and Magdalena of Valois||John III of Navarre
13 children||12 February 1517
Mont-de-Marsan
aged 49|-|}
Catherine reigned together with her husband John III. After his death, she reigned alone for eight months until her own death. During their reign, Navarre was defeated by Ferdinand II of Aragon in 1512, resulting in the loss of all its territory south of the Pyrenees, including the royal capital of Pamplona. Ferdinand, the son of John II and his second wife and thus the half-brother of Catherine's grandmother Eleanor, was then crowned King of Navarre, and that branch of the title descended through the Aragonese and Spanish monarchs. Catherine and John III were left with Lower Navarre, that small fraction of the kingdom's former territory that is on the north side of the Pyrenees, which was united with other lands in France that were under their control.|-|John III
(jure uxoris)
1484–1516||||1469
son of Alain I of Albret and Francoise of Châtillon-Limoges||Catherine of Navarre
13 children||14 June 1516
Pau
aged 47|-|}
|-|Ferdinand I
1512–1516[1] ||||1452
son of John II of Navarre and Juana Enríquez||Isabella I of Castile
5 children||23 January 1516
Madrigalejo
aged 63|-|}
In 1530, Charles V decided to renounce definitively any claim to Lower Navarre due to the impossibility of controlling it,[2] and because it was being effectively ruled by Henry II. However, Charles V and his mother Joana III continued as kings in Upper Navarre.
Catherine and John III were left with that small fraction of the kingdom's former territory that is on the north side of the Pyrenees, which was united with other lands in France that were under their control.
|Henry II
1517–1555||||18 April 1503
Sangüesa
son of John III of Navarre and Catherine of Navarre||Margaret of Angoulême
1526
2 children||25 May 1555
Hagetmau
aged 52|-|Jeanne III
1555–1572||||16 November 1528
Saint-Germain-en-Laye
daughter of Henry II of Navarre and Margaret of Angoulême||Antoine of Navarre
20 October 1548
5 children||9 June 1572
Paris
aged 43|-|}
Jeanne III reigned together with her husband Antoine until his death, and then alone until her own death. Their son Henry became King of France in 1589, taking possession of the kingdom in 1593 as the French Wars of Religion came to a close. Thereafter the crown of Navarre passed to the kings of France. In 1620, the Kingdom was merged into France; however, the French kings continued to use the title King of Navarre until 1791, and it was revived again from 1814 to 1830 during the Bourbon Restoration.|-|Antoine
(jure uxoris)
1555–1562||||22 April 1518
La Fère, Picardy
son of Charles, Duke of Vendôme, and Françoise of Alençon||Joan III of Navarre
20 October 1548
5 children||17 November 1562
Les Andelys, Eure
aged 44|-|Henry III the Great
Henry IV of France
1572–1610||||13 December 1553
Pau
son of Antoine of Navarre and Joan III of Navarre||(1) Margaret of France
18 August 1572
no issues
(2) Marie de' Medici
17 December 1600
6 children||14 May 1610
Paris
aged 56|-|Louis II the Just
Louis XIII of France
1610–1620||||27 September 1601
Château de Fontainebleau
son of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici||Anne of Spain
24 November 1615
6 children||14 May 1643
Paris
aged 41|-|}
|-|Louis II the Just
Louis XIII of France
1620–1643||||27 September 1601
Château de Fontainebleau
son of Henry IV of France and Marie de' Medici||Anne of Spain
24 November 1615
6 children||14 May 1643
Paris
aged 41|-|Louis III the Sun King
(Louis XIV of France)
1643–1715||||5 September 1638
Chateau de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Kingdom of France
son of Louis XIII of France, and Anne of Spain||(1) Maria Theresa of Spain
9 June 1660
3 children
(2) Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (private)||9 September 1715
Palace of Versailles, France
aged 76|-|Louis IV the Beloved
Louis XV of France
1715–1774||||15 February 1710
Palace of Versailles
son of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and Marie Adelaide of Savoy||Maria Leszczynska of Poland-Lithuania
15 August 1725
10 children||10 May 1774
Palace of Versailles
aged 64|-|Louis V
Louis XVI of France
1774–1793||||23 August 1754
Palace of Versailles
son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France||Maria Antonia of Austria
19 April 1770
4 children||21 January 1793
Paris, French First Republic
aged 38|-|}
Restoration|-|Louis VII the Desired
Louis XVIII of France
(1) 1814–1815
(2) 1815–1824||||9 October 1757
Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France
son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony||Marie Josephine of Savoy
14 May 1771
No children||16 September 1824
Paris, Kingdom of France
aged 68|-|Charles V
Charles X of France
1824–1830
July Revolution||||17 November 1755
Palace of Versailles, Kingdom of France
son of Louis, Dauphin of France and Maria Josepha of Saxony||Maria Theresa of Savoy
16 November 1773
4 children||6 November 1836
Gorizia, Austrian Empire
aged 79|-|}
|-|Joanna III
1516–1555[4] ||||6 November 1479
daughter of Ferdinand I of Navarre and Isabella of Castile||Philip, Duke of Burgundy
6 children||12 April 1555
Tordesillas
aged 75|-|}
|-|Charles IV
1516–1556[5] ||||24 February 1500
son of Philip, Duke of Burgundy and Joanna I of Castile||Isabella of Portugal
3 children||21 September 1558
Yuste
aged 58|-|Philip IV
1556–1598||||21 May 1527
son of Charles IV of Navarre and Isabella of Portugal||Maria Manuela of Portugal
1 child
Mary I of England
No children
Elisabeth of Valois
2 children
Anna of Austria
3 children||13 September 1598
Escorial
aged 71|-|Philip V
1598–1621||||14 April 1578
son of Philip IV of Navarra and Anna of Austria||Margaret of Austria
5 children||31 March 1621
Madrid
aged 42|-|Philip VI
1621–1665|||| 8 April 1605
son of Philip V of Navarra and Margaret of Austria||Elisabeth of Bourbon
2 children
Mariana of Austria
2 children||17 September 1665
Madrid
aged 60|-|Charles V
1665–1700|||| 6 November 1661
son of Philip VI of Navarra and Mariana of Austria||Marie Louise of Orléans
No children
Maria Anna of Neuburg
No children ||1 November 1700
Madrid
aged 38|}
|-|Philip VII[6]
1700–1724||||19 December 1683
son of Louis Dauphin of France and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria||Maria Luisa of Savoy
2 children
Elisabeth Farnese
6 children||9 July 1746
Madrid
aged 62|-|Louis II[6]
1724|||| 25 August 1707
son of Philip VII of Navarre and Maria Luisa of Savoy||Louise Elisabeth of Orléans
No children||31 August 1724
Madrid
aged 17|-|Philip VII[6]
1724–1746||||19 December 1683
son of Louis Dauphin of France and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria||Maria Luisa of Savoy
2 children
Elisabeth Farnese
6 children||9 July 1746
Madrid
aged 62|-|Ferdinand II
1746–1759||||23 September 1713
son of Philip VII of Navarre and Maria Luisa of Savoy||Barbara of Portugal
No children||10 August 1759
Madrid
aged 45|-|Charles VI[7] [8]
1759–1788||||20 January 1716
son of Philip VII of Navarre and Elisabeth Farnese||Maria Amalia of Saxony
13 children||14 December 1788
Madrid
aged 72|-|Charles VII[9] [10]
1788–1808||||11 November 1748
son of Charles VI of Navarre and Maria Amalia of Saxony||Maria Luisa of Parma
14 children||20 January 1819
Madrid
aged 70
|-|Ferdinand III[11]
1808–1833||||14 October 1784
son of Charles VII of Navarre and Maria Luisa of Parma||Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily
No children
Maria Isabel of Portugal
2 children
Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony
No children
Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies
2 children||29 September 1833
Madrid
aged 48|-|Isabella I
1833
1833 territorial division of Spain||||10 October 1830
daughter of Ferdinand VII of Spain and Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily||Francis of Spain
5 children||9 April 1904
Paris, French Third Republic
aged 73|-|}
|-|Juan Martínez de Medrano[12] [13] [14]
for Joan II of Navarre
on 13 March 1328
after the death of the last Capetian King of France[15] ||||13th Century
son of Don Juan Martinez de Medrano||
Aldonza Sánchez, 7 children||
May 1337–1338 Kingdom of Navarre
|-|}|-|Garcia de Medrano y Alvarez de los Rios[16]
for King Philip IV of Spain
on 17 January 1645
Elected Regent of Navarre[17] ||||Navarre, 1604
son of García de Medrano, Lord of San Gregorio, and María Álvarez de los Ríos y Mendoza||
Married to María Ignacia de Mendizábal y Uribe
1 child||
3 September 1683 Kingdom of Spain
|-|}|-|Pedro Antonio de Medrano y Albelda[18]
for King Philip V of Spain
On 9 May 1702
Elected Regent of Navarre||||14 Dec 1642 Calahorra, La Rioja, Spain
son of Don Pedro de Medrano Echauz and Josepha de Albelda Barron y Tejada|| Married to Teresa Josefa Alvarez de Arellano Echauz y Velasco
1 child||
December 1721[19] Kingdom of Spain
Age 71|-|}|-|Maria Christina of Naples and Sicily
for her daughter, Isabella
1833
1833 territorial division of Spain||||27 April 1806
daughter of Francis I of the Two Sicilies and Maria Isabella of Spain||Ferdinand VII of Spain
2 children||22 August 1878
Le Havre, French Third Republic
aged 72|-|}
De facto rulers of Navarre are the King of Spain for Upper Navarre and the French president for Lower Navarre.