Margaret of Foix

Margaret of Foix, (French: Marguerite de Foix) (c. 1453 ^[1] – 15 May 1486, Nantes), was, by marriage, Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486.

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 Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435-1488), son of Richard of Brittany (1395-1438), Count of Étampes (1421-1438), and of Margaret d'Orléans (1406-1466), Countess of Vertus (b. 1423). It was Francis's second marriage, his first wife Margaret of Brittany having died in 1469.

From the union were born two children:

• Anne of Brittany (1477-1514), Duchess of Brittany (1488-1514), and Queen of France from 1491 to 1498 and again from 1499 to 1514, being the wife in succession to Charles VIII and Louis XII
• Isabeau (1478-1490)

Margaret of Foix is buried in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (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], and which is a major early work of the French Renaissance.

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