Margaret of Foix

Margaret of Foix
Margaret of Foix
	Margaret's face on her tomb in Nantes
Duchess of Brittany
Tenure	27 June 1474 – 15 May 1486
Born	c. 1449
Died	15 May 1486; Château de Nantes, Nantes
Burial	Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nantes.
Spouse	Francis II, Duke of Brittany
Issue	Anne of Brittany, Queen of France; Isabeau of Brittany
House	Foix-Grailly
Father	Gaston IV, Count of Foix
Mother	Eleanor of Navarre
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix; c. 1449^[1] – 15 May 1486) was Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486 by marriage to Francis II, Duke of Brittany.

Life

She was the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre (1425–1479) and of Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1425–1472).

On 27 June 1474, at the Château de Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488), son of Richard of Brittany, Count of Étampes (1395–1438), and Margaret of Orléans, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466). It was Francis's second marriage, his first wife, Margaret of Brittany, having died in 1469.

Margaret of Foix died at the Château de Nantes in Nantes and was buried in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul (French: Cathédrale Saint-Pierre-et-Saint-Paul) beside her husband and Margaret of Brittany, in a magnificent tomb named the Tomb of Francis II,^[2] a tomb constructed in the early French Renaissance style.

Issue

Anne of Brittany (1477–1514), Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514), and twice Queen of France: from 1491 to 1498 as the wife of King Charles VIII of France, and from 1499 to 1514 as the wife of King Louis XII of France.
Isabeau of Brittany (1478–1490), betrothed to Jean d'Albret in 1481, died young, and was buried in the Rennes Cathedral.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Margaret of Foix

16. Pierre II de Grailly

8. Archambaud de Grailly

17. Rosamburge de Périgord

4. John I, Count of Foix

18. Roger Bernard IV, Viscount of Castelbon

9. Isabella, Countess of Foix

19. Géraude de Navailles

2. Gaston IV, Count of Foix

20. Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret

10. Charles I, Lord of Albret

21. Margaret of Bourbon

5. Jeanne of Albret

22. Louis, Lord of Sully

11. Marie de Sully

23. Isabeau de Craon

1. Margaret of Foix

24. John I of Castile

12. Ferdinand I of Aragon

25. Eleanor of Aragon

6. John II of Aragon

26. Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque

13. Eleanor of Alburquerque

27. Beatrice of Portugal

3. Eleanor of Navarre

28. Charles II of Navarre

14. Charles III of Navarre

29. Joan of Valois

7. Blanche I of Navarre

30. Henry II of Castile

15. Eleanor of Castile

31. Juana Manuel

References

↑ Booton, Diane E. (2010) "Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany", Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7546-6623-3, p. 152
↑ "Le tombeau de François II" by Frederic Chotard (French)

Royal titles
Margaret of Foix House of Foix-Grailly Born: 1449 Died: 15 May 1486
Preceded by Margaret of Brittany	Duchess consort of Brittany 1471–1486	Succeeded by Catherine de' Medici

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[1] Booton, Diane E. (2010) "Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany", Ashgate Publishing, ISBN 978-0-7546-6623-3, p. 152

[2] "Le tombeau de François II" by Frederic Chotard (French)