Beaumonteses

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The Beaumonteses or Beamonteses were the supporters of the Navarres noble family Beaumont, the Counts of Lerín from an illegitimate branch of the ruling house of France-Évreux . Their opponents were the Agramonteses .

When John of Aragón , King of Navarre as the husband of Queen Blanka after her death in 1441, did not hand over power to his eldest son Karl von Viana as planned , the two parties supported the respective sides, the Beaumonteses the legitimate heir to the throne, the Agramonteses his father. Both looked for allies within the country and found them in the old families of the western Basque Country , the Agramonteses in the followers of the Gamboa family (the Gamboínos), the Beaumonteses in the followers of the Oñaz family (the Oñacinos).

The parties not only survived the Navarre Civil War (1451-1455) and the deaths of Charles of Viana (1461) and John of Aragón (1479), but also looked for other allies at the international level. The Beaumonteses had found them in the Kingdom of Castile , which used the connection in 1512 during the conquest of Navarre and, with their help, got to their destination relatively quickly and easily; As a result, the Beaumonteses were the only ones who obeyed the call of the newly appointed viceroy to recognize Ferdinand the Catholic as king in the Cortes de Navarra in Pamplona in 1513 - and thus of all things the son of their arch-enemy John of Aragón, who was responsible for the conquest not as King of Aragón, but as Regent of Castile (for his daughter Johanna the Mad ).

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