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Catherine de Bourbon

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).


Other sources (thePeerage.com) identify the parents of Madeleine de la Tour (1501-1519) as Jean III de la Tour (1467-1501) and Jeanne de Bourbon (1465-1511).

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