Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale

Catherine de Foix
Spouse(s)	Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
Noble family	House of Foix
Father	Gaston IV, Count of Foix
Mother	Eleanor of Navarre
Born	c. 1455
Died	before 1494

Catherine de Foix (c. 1455 – died before 1494) was a French noblewoman.

She was a daughter of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Eleanor of Navarre.^[1] Granddaughter of John II of Aragón and Blanche I of Navarre.

Catherine married Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges.
They had four children:

Gaston de Foix, 3rd Count of Candale.^[2]
Jean de Foix, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
Pierre de Foix, died without issue.
Anne de Foix, married King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary.^[3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale

16. Pierre II de Grailly

8. Archambaud de Grailly ***

17. Erembourga de Périgord

4. John I, Count of Foix

18. Roger Bernard IV, vicomte de Castelbon

9. Isabella, Countess of Foix

19. Géraude, dame de Navailles

2. Gaston IV, Count of Foix

20.Arnaud of Albret

10. Charles I of Albret

21. Marguerite de Bourbon

5. Jeanne of Albret

22. Louis de Sully

11. Marie de Sully

23. Isabel de Craon

1. Catherine of Navarre

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 France

7. Blanche I of Navarre

30. Henry II of Castile

15. Eleanor of Castile

31. Juana Manuel

Notes

↑ Revue de l'Agenais, Volume 4, Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen, Société académique d'Agen, (P. Noubel, Impremeur-Editeur, 1877), 497.
↑ Légé, Joseph, Les Castelnau-Tursan: par l'Abbē Légé, Vol. 1, (Aire-Sur-L'Adour, 1887), 333.
↑ Légé, 333.

References

Revue de l'Agenais, Volume 4, Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen, Société académique d'Agen, P. Noubel, Impremeur-Editeur, 1877.
Légé, Joseph, Les Castelnau-Tursan: par l'Abbē Légé, Vol. 1, Aire-Sur-L'Adour, 1887.

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