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.

Margaret of Foix
Margaret's face on her tomb in Nantes
Duchess consort of Brittany
Tenure27 June 1474 – 15 May 1486
Bornc. 1449
Died15 May 1486
Château de Nantes, Nantes
Burial
Spouse
(m. 1474)
Issue
HouseFoix-Grailly
FatherGaston IV, Count of Foix
MotherEleanor of Navarre

Life

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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

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References

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  1. ^ Booton 2010, p. 152.
  2. ^ Anthony 1931, p. 10.
  3. ^ Woodacre 2013, p. xxi.
  4. ^ Woodacre 2013, p. 122.
  5. ^ "Le tombeau de François II" by Frederic Chotard (French)

Sources

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  • 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.
Margaret of Foix
Born: c. 1449 Died: 15 May 1486
Royal titles
Preceded by Duchess consort of Brittany
1471–1486
Succeeded by