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- HENRY I, byname HENRY THE FAT, Spanish ENRIQUE EL GORDO, French HENRI LEGROS (b. c 1210 - d. July 22, 1274, Pamplona, Navarre), king of Navarre(1270-74) and count (as Henry III) of Champagne. Henry was the youngestson of Theobald I of Navarre by Margaret of Foix. He succeeded hiseldest brother, Theobald II (Thibaut V) in both kingdom and countship inDecember 1270. By his marriage (1269) to Blanche, daughter of Robert Iof Artois and niece of Louis IX of France, he had one daughter, Joan,whom, by the Convention of Bonleiu (30 Nov 1273), he promised to one ofthe two sons of Edward I of England, Henry and Alfonso. This would haveled to a union of his dominions with English Gascony, but it came tonothing. King Henry died in 1274; both the English princes died in thenext decade and Joan was married in 1284 to the future Philip IV ofFrance. [Encylcopaedia Britannica]
Note: His birth year give above is obviously wrong, as his father wasonly 9 years old in 1210. I will follow people in World Connect with1244.
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