noble_family joan i of navarre
Joan I ( 14 January 1273 -- 31 March / 2 April 1305 ) , the daughter of King Henry I of Navarre and Blanche of Artois , reigned as queen regnant of Navarre and also served as queen consort to Philip IV of France . The ___MASK54___ was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty , descended from Louis VIII the Lion , King of France , through his younger son , Robert ( 1216  1250 ). Robert received the County of Artois as appanage in his father ' s will . Edmund Crouchback ( 16 January 1245  5 June 1296 ), a member of the ___MASK3___ , was the second surviving son of Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence . In his childhood he had a claim on the Kingdom of Sicily , but he never ruled there . In 1265 he was granted all the lands of Simon de Montfort and from 1267 he was titled Earl of Leicester . In that year he also began to rule Lancashire , but he did not take the title Earl of Lancaster until 1276 . Between 1276 and 1284 he governed the counties of Champagne and Brie with his second wife , Blanche of Artois , in the name of her daughter Joan . His nickname , " Crouchback " ( meaning " crossed - back "), refers to his participation in the Ninth Crusade . A queen regnant ( plural : queens regnant ) is a female monarch , equivalent in rank to a king , who reigns in her own right , in contrast to a queen consort , who is the wife of a reigning king , or a queen regent , who is the guardian of a child monarch reigning temporarily in their stead . An empress regnant is a female monarch who reigns in her own right over an empire . The ___MASK31___ was the ruler of the region of Champagne from 950 to 1316 . Champagne evolved from the county of Troyes in the late eleventh century and Hugh I was the first to officially use the title " ___MASK31___ ". Philip III ( 30 April 1245  5 October 1285 ), called the Bold , was King of France from 1270 to 1285 , a member of the ___MASK51___ . Henry the Fat ( Basque : " Henrike I . a , Gizena ", French : " Henri le Gros ", Spanish : " Enrique el Gordo ") ( c . 1244  22 July 1274 ) was King of Navarre ( as Henry I ) and ___MASK31___ and Brie ( as Henry III ) from 1270 until his death . Blanche of Artois ( Basque : Zuria Artoiskoa ) ( 1248  2 May 1302 ) was a member of the Capetian ___MASK54___ who , as queen dowager , held regency over the Kingdom of Navarre and the County of Champagne . She was first married to Henry I of Navarre , after whose death she became regent in the name of their infant daughter , Joan I . She passed on the regency of Navarre to Philip III of France , her cousin and her daughter ' s prospective father - in - law , but retained the administration of Champagne . She later shared the government of Champagne with her second husband , the English prince Edmund Crouchback , until her daughter reached the age of majority . An empire is defined as " an aggregate of nations or people ruled over by an emperor or other powerful sovereign or government , usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom , as the former British Empire , French Empire , Brazilian Empire , Russian Empire , ___MASK5___ , Byzantine Empire or Roman Empire ." An empire can be made solely of contiguous territories such as the Austro - Hungarian Empire , or of territories far remote from the homeland , such as a colonial empire . Philip IV ( April  June 1268  29 November 1314 ), called the Fair or the Iron King , was King of France from 1285 until his death . By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre , he was also Philip I , King of Navarre from 1284 to 1305 . He also briefly ruled the County of ___MASK50___ in right of his wife , although after his accession as king in 1285 the county remained under the sole governance of his wife until 1305 , and then his son , Louis until 1314 .