NAVARRE, Martin, surnamed Azpileucta, because he was born in the kingdom which bears that name, was successively professor of jurisprudence at Toulouse, Salamanca, and Coimbra, and universally consulted as a great oracle of law. For a part of his knowledge he was indebted to the schools of Cahors and Toulouse, in which he had studied. His friend Carewza, a Dominican, and archbishop of Toledo, having been charged with heresy by the Inquisition at Rome, Navarre set out, at the age of eighty, to defend him. Pius V. appointed him assessor to Cardinal Francis Alciat, vice-penitentiary. Gregory XIII. never passed his gate without sending for him; sometimes conversed with him for an hour together on the street; and even deigned to visit him, accompanied by several cardinals. But these honours did not render him more haughty. His character became so eminent, that even in his own time the greatest encomium which could be paid to a man of learning was to say that he was a Navarre. Azpileucta was the oracle of the city of Rome, and of the whole Christian world; and for the influence which he had acquired he was indebted not only to his knowledge, but also to his known probity and virtue. Faithful to the duties which the church prescribed, his temperance and frugality preserved to him a vigorous constitution; and at a very advanced age his genius was still equal to the severest study. His savings enabled him to give liberal assistance to the poor; indeed, his charities were so great, that his mule, it is said, would stop as soon as she perceived a beggar. He died at Rome in 1586, at the age of ninety-two. His works were collected and printed in six vols. folio, at Lyons, in 1597, and at Venice in 1602; but they display more learning than judgment, and are now very seldom consulted.