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Name:
Theobaldo I of Navarre
 Relationship to Nancy Cash
Birth:
ABT 30 MAY 1201 Troyes, France
Father:
Mother:
Married:
Margaret MAR 1231/1232
Children:
Theobaldo II
Born:
Died: ABT 1270
ENRIQUE (Henri) I of Navarre
Born: ABT 1244 ?; of Troyes, Aube, France
Died: 22 JUL 1274 Pampeluna, Navarra, Spain
Death:
8 JUL 1253 Pomplona, Navarre (now is Spain) aged 52
Remarks:
Also called Theobald The Troubadour, or The Posthumous, French Thibaud Le Chansonnier, or Le Posthume, Spanish Teobaldo El Trovador, or El Póstumo.
Count of Troyes and of Champagne (from 1201), as Theobald IV, and king of Navarre (from 1234), the most famous of the aristocratic trouvères.
He was the son of Theobald III of Champagne, who died before his son was born, and Blanche of Navarre. He lived for four years at the court of King Philip II of France, to whom he did feudal homage in 1214. After Philip's death (1223), he supported Philip's son Louis VIII but deserted him in 1226 at the siege of Avignon, conducted by the king as part of his campaign against the Albigenses, a religious sect deemed heretical. On the death of Louis a few months later, Theobald joined a dissident league of barons who opposed Louis's widow and regent of France, Blanche of Castile. He soon abandoned the league and became reconciled with Blanche. It was rumoured that he was her lover and had poisoned her husband, and many of his poems are thought to be addressed to her. He led the crusade of 1239-40 and, after his return, spent the rest of his life in Champagne and Navarre.
Theobald left about 60 lyrics, mainly love songs and debates in verse, with two pastourelles (love songs between knight and shepherdess) and nine religious poems. Perhaps he found his true level in the jeu-parti (courtly love debate) in which he discusses with a crony from the crusades whether it is better to embrace one's love in the dark or to see her without embracing her, with wry allusions to the crony's crutch and his own potbelly. Theobald's lyrics, with their music, have survived in six manuscript

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