father philip iv of france
Henry the Fat ( Basque : " Henrike I . a , Gizena ", French : " ___MASK54___ le Gros ", Spanish : " Enrique el Gordo ") ( c . 1244  22 July 1274 ) was King of Navarre ( as Henry I ) and Count of Champagne and Brie ( as Henry III ) from 1270 until his death . France , officially the French Republic , is a country with territory in western Europe and several overseas regions and territories . The European , or metropolitan , area of France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea , and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean . Overseas France ___MASK89___ French Guiana on the South American continent and several island territories in the Atlantic , Pacific and Indian oceans . France spans and had a total population of almost 67 million people as of January 2017 . It is a unitary semi - presidential republic with the capital in Paris , the country ' s largest city and main cultural and commercial centre . Other major urban centres ___MASK89___ Marseille , Lyon , Lille , Nice , Toulouse and Bordeaux . Blanche of Artois ( Basque : Zuria Artoiskoa ) ( 1248  2 May 1302 ) was a member of the Capetian House of Artois who , as queen dowager , held regency over the Kingdom of Navarre and the County of Champagne . She was first married to ___MASK94___ , after whose death she became regent in the name of their infant daughter , Joan I . She passed on the regency of Navarre to ___MASK53___ , 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 . A queen consort is the wife of a reigning king ( or an empress consort in the case of an emperor ). In Brunei , the wife of ___MASK48___ is known as a " Raja Isteri " with prefix " Pengiran Anak ", equivalent with queen consort in English , as were the consorts of tsars when Bulgaria was still a monarchy . A queen consort usually shares her husband ' s social rank and status . She holds the feminine equivalent of the king ' s monarchical titles , but historically , she does not share the king ' s political and military powers . A queen regnant is a queen in her own right with all the powers of a monarch , who ( usually ) has become queen by inheriting the throne upon the death of the previous monarch . ___MASK97___ IV ( April -- June 1268 -- 29 November 1314 ) , called the Fair ( French : Philippe le Bel ) or the Iron King ( French : le Roi de fer ) , was King of France from 1285 until his death . By virtue of his marriage with Joan I of Navarre , he was also , as ___MASK97___ I , King of Navarre from 1284 to 1305 . He also briefly ruled the County of Champagne 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 . ___MASK97___ relied on skillful civil servants , such as Guillaume de Nogaret and Enguerrand de Marigny , to govern the kingdom rather than on his barons . ___MASK97___ and his advisors were instrumental in the transformation of France from a feudal country to a centralized state . ___MASK97___ , who sought an uncontested monarchy , compelled his vassals by wars and restricted feudal usages . His ambitions made him highly influential in European affairs . His goal was to place his relatives on foreign thrones . Princes from his house ruled in Naples and Hungary . He tried and failed to make another relative the Holy Roman Emperor . He began the long advance of France eastward by taking control of scattered fiefs . The most notable conflicts of ___MASK97___ ' s reign ___MASK89___ a dispute with Edward I of England , who was also his vassal as the Duke of Aquitaine , and a war with the County of Flanders , which gained temporary autonomy following ___MASK97___ ' s embarrassing defeat at the Battle of the Golden Spurs ( 1302 ) . To further strengthen the monarchy , he tried to control the French clergy and entered in conflict with Pope Boniface VIII . This conflict led to the transfer of the papal court to the enclave of Avignon in 1309 . In 1306 , ___MASK97___ the Fair expelled the Jews from France and , in 1307 , he annihilated the order of the Knights Templar . ___MASK97___ was in debt to both groups and saw them as a `` state within the state '' . His final year saw a scandal amongst the royal family , known as the Tour de Nesle Affair , during which the three daughters - in - law of ___MASK97___ were accused of adultery . His three sons were successively kings of France , Louis X , ___MASK97___ V , and Charles IV . Joan I ( 14 January 1273  31 March / 2 April 1305 ), ( Basque : " Joana I . a Nafarroakoa ") the daughter of King ___MASK94___ and Blanche of Artois , reigned as queen regnant of Navarre and also served as queen consort to Philip IV of France . Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a sovereign state largely located on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe , with two large archipelagos , the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea and the Canary Islands off the North African Atlantic coast , two cities Ceuta and Melilla in the North African mainland and several small islands in the Alboran Sea near the Moroccan coast . Its mainland is bordered to the south and east by the Mediterranean Sea except for a small land boundary with Gibraltar ; to the north and northeast by France , Andorra , and the Bay of ___MASK71___ ; and to the west and northwest by Portugal and the Atlantic Ocean . It is the only European country to have a border with an African country ( Morocco ) and its African territory accounts for nearly 5 % of its population , mostly in the Canary Islands but also in Ceuta and Melilla . Navarre , officially the Chartered Community of Navarre ( Basque : " Nafarroako Foru Komunitatea " ; Spanish : " Comunidad Foral de Navarra " ; French : " Communauté agréés de Navarre " ), is an autonomous community and province in northern Spain , bordering the Basque Autonomous Community , La Rioja , and Aragon in Spain and Nouvelle - Aquitaine in France . The capital city is Pamplona ( or " Iruñea " in Basque ).