Manex Goihenetxe lost his life on the mountain with his unfinished work. Born in Ezterenzubi, he graduated in History from the Public University of Toulouse in 1969 and graduated from PhD in 1984 in Pau. He was a high school and college professor. But it's not just that. Goihenetxe was a politician – one of the founders of the Enbata movement and the EHAS party – a corresponding member of Euskaltzaindia, director of the UEU, secretary of the association Ikas, worker of SEASKA… You cannot understand his research of history without that path.

Jean Luis Davant wrote in his biography for the Bidegileak collection that Goihenetxe’s first history works were “pamphlets”, more than rigor, with good intentions. It was the 1970s and its objective was to denounce French colonization. Later, with experience in the mistakes of the past, he began to work with the documented and critical history, defended nationalism in that way, and first of all he realized that there have been and are many of the Basque Country.

Its intention is to make a story for the whole of the Basque Country and the result is the Histoire Générale du Pays Basque collection, composed of five volumes between 1998 and 2005, which left the last unfinished volume, with the hand of Elkar. The same editorial group published in 2005 a version in Spanish, but not in Euskera. The third volume of the collection includes the conquest of both Alta Navarra and Baja Navarra.

“The historians emphasize that the day after the conquest Fernando the Catholic was very careful to respect customs and customs, as well as the Fuero de Navarra itself, as well as its main institutions (Consejo Real, Cortes, Cortes…), rejecting the word annexation. But this policy was possible because Navarre did not have military support after the destruction of its castles. It is true that the Navarre institutions did not disappear, which were reinforced, but under a planned and effective Hispanization, to the point of controlling and integrating the Navarre elites in the Spanish monarchy and within its empire. (…)

Since the second half of the sixteenth century, several factors caused the rupture between Alta and Baja Navarra, highlighting the military, diplomatic and territorial consolidation carried out by France and Spain, a policy enshrined by the Edict of the Union (1620) and the Treaty of the Pyrenees (1659) 16. (…)

From there, Henrike IV.arekin, the writing of history was left in the hands of a Navarrism derived at the service of the interests of the French monarchy. And in Upper Navarre the imperialist ideology Karlos I.aren and Felipe I I.aren was successful; death in the first years of the conquest, prison and the intense forces of society that survived exile were framed within the Castilian dynamic in favor of unity. In a Spain that became the first power in Europe, Navarre maintained the viceroy, became a regencia, a kind of colony and Spanish dominion: it was not a kingdom, but a regencia”.