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Catherine de Bourbon (1559 - 1604), of Navarre, and Duchess of Albret was a daughter of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret. She was the sister or Henry IV of France.

She was the first wife of Henry I, Duke of Lorraine, whom she married in 1599. They had no issue.

Catherine of Bourbon was the mother of Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne. Madeleine was the mother of the famous queen, Catherine de' Medici (1519-1589).

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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Catherine De' Medici (1696 words)
	Catherine was obliged to allow the Guises to quell the conspiracy of Amboise, March, 1560, and for a few months to exercise a sort of Catholic dictatorship.
	It was indeed a great period in Catherine's life: Charles IX who had attained his majority on the 27th of June solemnly declared to her that she should govern more than ever; the treaty with England, 11 April, 1564, assured Calais to France; and Catherine and the young king made a tour of the provinces.
	Catherine, ever ambitious, laid claim to the crown of Portugal for a member of her family, and dreamed in vain of giving the crown of France to her daughter's son, the Marquis de Pont a Mousson; but the matter rested between the Guises and the Bourbons.

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