Former kingdom comprising the Spanish
province of Navarre and part of what is now
the French departement of Basses-Pyrenees. It
resisted the conquest of the Moors and was
independent until it became French 1284 on
the marriage of Philip IV to the heiress of
Navarre. In 1479 Ferdinand of Aragon annexed
Spanish Navarre, with French Navarre going to
Catherine of Foix (1483-1512), who kept the
royal title. Her grandson became Henry IV of
France, and Navarre was absorbed in the
French crown lands 1620.