Margaret of Foix
Margaret of Foix | |
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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 Nantes |
Burial | Nantes Cathedral |
Spouse | Francis II, Duke of Brittany |
Issue |
Anne of Brittany, Queen of France Isabeau of Brittany |
House | House of 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, 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 twice Queen Consort of France, from 1491 to 1498 as the wife of Charles VIII and again from 1499 to 1514, as the wife to and Louis XII
- Isabeau of Brittany (1478–1490), betrothed to Jean d'Albret in 1481, died young and buried in the Rennes Cathedral.
Margaret of Foix died at Nantes, where she is 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] and which is a major early work of the French Renaissance.
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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)
Margaret of Foix Born: 1449 Died: 15 May 1486 | ||
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Preceded by Margaret of Brittany |
Duchess consort of Brittany 1471–1486 |
Succeeded by Catherine de' Medici |
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