aggression. The capital city of Béarn was Pau, which John III and Catherine took as their main base along with Orthez and Tarbes in their last period. Reconquest attempt and death After the Aragonese king Ferdinand's death in January 1516, the king John III mustered an army in Sauveterre-de-Béarn made up of Navarrese exiles and men from all over his domains, especially from Béarn, but the total figure of combatants amounted to no more than several hundreds. The advance of the two columns led by Pedro, Marshal of Navarre was stopped by the Castilians right on the Pyrénées due to spies informing Cardinal Cisneros. The reconquest attempt was flawed. Depressed by the defeats and adverse diplomatic results, John III died at the castle of Esgouarrabaque in Monein, Béarn, on 14 June 1516 after lying gripped by fatal fevers. Up to the last moment he struggled to get Navarre back from the Spanish, urging his wife, Queen Catherine, to send a representative to the Cortes of Castile to demand the restoration of the kingdom of Navarre. Despite his wish to be buried at the Santa Maria Cathedral of Pamplona, the permanent Spanish occupation prevented that. His corpse rests instead at the Cathedral of Lescar along with Queen Catherine, who outlived him only a few months. Family John and Catherine of Navarre had: Anne (19 May 1492 – 15 August 1532) Magdalena (29 March 1494 – May 1504) Catherine (1495 – November 1532), abbess of the Trinity at Caen Jean (15 June 1496 – last mentioned in November 1496) Quiteria (1499 – September/October 1536), abbess at Montivilliers a stillborn son in 1500 Andrew Phoebus (14 October 1501 – 17 April 1503) Henry II (18 April 1503 – 25 May 1555), King of Navarre Buenaventura (14 July 1505 – 1510/1511) Martin (c. 1506 – last mentioned in 1512) Francis (1508 – last mentioned in 1512) Charles (12 December 1510 – September 1528), captured during the Siege of Naples and died as a prisoner of war Isabella (1513/1514 – last mentioned in 1555), married to Rene I, Viscount of Rohan References Sources External links 1469 births 1516 deaths 15th-century Navarrese monarchs 16th-century Navarrese monarchs Jure uxoris kings Burials at Lescar Cathedral House of Albret Counts of Périgord Heirs apparent who never acceded