In 1546 2 events began that started war in Europe. The first was the death of Henry II of Navarre and his son, also named Henry. These deaths left Sophia d'Albret, Queen of Aragon as Queen of Navarre in her own right, as well as her husband by right through his mother. However, both France and Portugal disagreed. For Manuel, Prince of Portugal, his mother had actually not been asked to renounce her claims upon her marriage, as it had not been seen as important at the time due to the speed at which Juan III of Portugal had married Buenaventura of Navarre. And thus he claimed it through his mother. In France, Queen Dowager Quiteria, who had not remarried since Louis XII's death decades prior, was 45 and felt ready to take the throne in her own right, claiming that Sophia had lost her right by marrying a foreign King, conveniently forgetting she herself was where she was at this moment by marrying a foreign King. But in an effort to seem a Queen, she married her continual lover of the past 15 years Louis, Count of Vaudémont. They had had a son in 1534, named Charles, who Quiteria raised in her private estates. Now legitimized by marriage (at least in Quiteria's mind), she offered a firm choice in that her line was secure. Thus began the War For Navarre, which lasted 9 years.