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Margaret of Foix

Margaret of Foix

Duchess of Brittany


Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix; c. 1449[1] 15 May 1486[2]) was Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486 by marriage to Duke Francis II.

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Life

She was the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre (1425–1479) and of Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1425–1472).[3]

On 27 June 1471, at the Château de Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488),[4] 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 is interred 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[5] constructed in the early French Renaissance style.

Issue


References

  1. Booton 2010, p. 152.
  2. "Le tombeau de François II" by Frederic Chotard (French)

Sources

  • Booton, Diane E. (2010). Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany. Ashgate Publishing.
  • Woodacre, Elena (2013). The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Anthony, R. (1931). Identification et Étude des Ossements des Rois de Navarre inhumés dans la Cathédrale de Lescar [Identification and Study of the Bones of the Kings of Navarre buried in the Cathedral of Lescar] (PDF). Archives du Muséum, 6e series (in French). Vol. VII. Masson et Cie.
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