Philip III of Navarre

Philip III of Évreux (1306–1343) came from a minor branch of the French royal house. In 1328 the French crown went to the Valois, but his wife Joan, daughter of Louis X, inherited Navarre and he became its king beside her, ending forty-four years of union with France.

Philip is credited with improving Navarre's legislature. He fought for his cousin Philip VI in the first campaigns of the Hundred Years' War, then turned Navarre toward Iberia, where war with Castile ended at Las Cuevas in 1336.

In July 1343 he joined the siege of Algeciras against Granada with troops and provisions, fell ill, withdrew, and died at Jerez de la Frontera on 16 September. Joan ruled alone until 1349.