Julius II had become pope by this time. He was strictly against nepotism and ordered Cesare to return his land to the papacy. He was imprisoned for a short time; then. returned to Naples.Upon his return there, Cesare was sent to Spain and imprisoned again. He escaped en 1506 and found refuge in the court of the King of Navarra , who happened to be his brother-in-law, Jean d' Albret.
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Jean became King of Navarre and Count of Foix by virtue of his 1484 marriage to Queen Catherine (1470-1517), successor of her brother Francis Phoebus in 1483.
In 1512, he was defeated by Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose second wife was Germaine de Foix (1490-1538), a cousin of Queen Catherine. Navarre south of the Pyrenees was annexed by the victorious Ferdinand and remained a domain of the Kings of Spain, who also bore the title of Kings of Navarre, until the 1833 territorial division of Spain, when it was completely integrated into Spain.
Lower Navarre remained with Jean and his successors as Kings of Navarre, increasingly under French influence. After King Henry III of Navarre had mounted the French throne in 1589, he and his successors styled themselves Kings of France and Navarre until the French Revolution merged Lower Navarre with France.
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Pope Alexandre vI hope to secure the Papal States and his family's position of influence in Italy and Spain through strategic marital alliances for his children. One of his other sons, Juan, was made the Duke of Gandia in Spain. He married Maria Enriquez, the cousin of king Ferdinand vI of Castile. Another of his sons,Jofre, was married to Sancia, the granddaughter to the King of Naple. Clearly, Alexander, like the other powerful men of this time, used the union of his children to further his own ambitions as well as theirs.
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Cesare became one of King Louis XII's leading generals and commander of the papal armies. He subdued the lands of Romagna, which where situated near the Papal States. One of Cesare's most infamous exploits include his triumphant re-entry into Rome after this victory. He dragged Caterina d' Sforza, a powerful lady and mistress of cities ha had captured, into the city behind him. She was shackled in golden chains.
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