Kingdom of Navarre (Paperback)

The Kingdom of Navarre, originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a European kingdom which occupied lands on either side of the Pyrenees alongside the Atlantic Ocean. The kingdom of Navarre was formed when local Basque leader Inigo Arista was elected or declared King in Pamplona (traditionally in 824) and led a revolt against the regional Frankish authority. The southern part of the kingdom was absorbed by the Crown of Castile in 1513, and thus became part of the unified Kingdom of Spain. The northern part of the kingdom remained independent, but it was joined with France in a personal union in 1589 when King Henry III of Navarre inherited the French throne as Henry IV of France, and in 1620 it was merged into the Kingdom of France