Gaston IV, Count of Foix, Viscount of Bearn (27 November 1422 - 25 July/28 July 1472) was a French nobleman, who founded a brief-ruling dynastic house of the Kingdom of Navarre. Events 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont Events 285 - Diocletian appoints Maximian as Caesar, co-ruler Events 1540 - Thomas Cromwell is executed at the order of Henry VIII of England on charges of Treason. The Kingdom of Navarre (Reino de Navarra Nafarroako Erresuma Royaume de Navarre originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a European kingdom which occupied lands on either
He was a son of John I of Foix-Grailly and Joan of Albret. His maternal grandparents were Charles d'Albret, Constable of France and co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt where he was killed, and his wife Marie de Sully. Charles d'Albret (d October 25, 1415) was Constable of France two different times from 1402 until 1411 and again from 1413 until 1415 The Constable of France (connétable de France from Latin comes stabuli for " Count of the stables" as the First Officer of the Crown was one The Battle of Agincourt was an English victory against a larger French army in the Hundred Years' War.
Gaston married the Navarrese Infanta, Leonor, in 1436. Eleanor of Aragon (Leonor ( Olite, Navarre (now Spain) 2 February 1426 &ndash Tudela Navarre (now Spain) 12 February 1479 Her parents were John II and Blanche I of Navarre. John II the Great ( June 29, 1397 &ndash January 20, 1479) was the King of Aragon (1458&ndash1479 and Jure uxoris For other persons of this name see Blanca of Navarre (disambiguation At the time, Leonor appeared to have few prospects: her father was a younger son and brother of the Kings of Aragon, and Leonor had a brother, Charles of Viana, and an older sister, Blanca, standing between herself and the inheritance of Navarre. Charles Prince of Viana, ( May 29 1421 &ndash September 23 1461) sometimes called Charles IV king of Navarre, was the son Blanche II (1420-1464 was the daughter of John II of Aragon and Blanche I of Navarre. However, family dissent and death eliminated both Charles and Blanca; Leonor's father usurped the Navarrese throne, to which he added in 1458 the throne of Aragon (his older brother having died without legitimate children), and, following the deaths of Charles and Blanca, promised the inheritance of Navarre to Leonor and her husband in return for their loyalty to him, which was given.
They had eight children:
- Gaston de Foix (1443-1470), (sometimes called “Gaston V of Foix”), Viscount of Castelbon, prince of Viana (1462-1470), lieutenant general of Navarre (1469). Gaston Prince of Viana, also called Gaston de Foix (1444 &ndash 23 November, 1470, Libourne Aquitaine was the son of Gaston IV of Foix and
- By Magdalena of Valois, Gaston V fathered two monarchs of Navarre, François Phébus (1468-1483) and Catherine of Navarre (1468-1517)
- Jean de Foix (1446-1500), Viscount of Narbonne (1468-1500), count d' Étampes (1478-1500). Magdalena of Valois, also called Madeleine de France ( 1 December 1443, Tours - 21 January 1495, Pamplona) was Catherine (in Spanish, Catalina de Foix) (1468-1518 was Queen of Navarre (1483-1518 Duchess of Gandia, Montblanc, and John of Foix (1450 &ndash 1500 Etamps France was a younger son of Gaston IV of Foix and Queen Eleanor of Navarre. He claimed the throne of Navarre upon the death of his nephew François Phébus. He married in 1476 Marie of Orleans (1457-1493)
- Margaret of Foix (1449-1486), married on June 27, 1471 at Clisson with Francis II, Duke of Brittany. Marguerite de Foix, (c 1453 &ndash 15 May 1486, Nantes) was by marriage Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486 Francis II (in Breton Frañsez II, in French François II) ( June 23 1433 &ndash September 9 1488 They were parents of Anne of Brittany, twice queen of France as consort to both Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France. Anne of Brittany ( 25 January, 1477 &ndash 9 January, 1514) also known as Anna of Brittany ( Anne de Bretagne; Charles VIII, called the Affable (l'Affable 30 June 1470 &ndash 7 April 1498 was King of France from 1483 to his death Louis XII ( June 27, 1462 – January 1, 1515) called "the Father of the People" (Le Père du Peuple was the thirty-fifth king
- Pierre de Foix (February 7, 1449 to August 10, 1490), (sometimes called “Pierre II of Foix”), called Pierre the Young, cardinal (1576), viceroy of Navarre (1479-1484)
- Marie de Foix (c. Pierre de Foix ( 1386 - 13 December[[ 464]] was a French cardinal created in 1409 1452-1467)
- Jeanne de Foix (c. 1454-c. 1476), married in August 1469 in Lectoure, with Jean V of Armagnac (1420-1473). Jean V d'Armagnac (1420-1473 vicomte de Lomagne while his father lived the next-to-last comte d'Armagnac of the older branch was the controversial son of Jean IV of
- Catherine de Foix (c. Catherine de Foix (c 1455 &ndash died before 1494 was a French noblewoman 1460-before 1494), married in 1469 with Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (c. Gaston de Foix, (died 1500 Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges was a French of high nobility in last decades of Middle Ages 1440-1500), (sometimes called “Gaston II of Foix”).
- Jacques de Foix (1470-1500), Count of Montfort
Gaston died in 1472, outlived by his wife and father-in-law.
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Gaston IV of Foix
Born: 27 November 1422 Died: July 1472 |
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| Preceded by Jean I |
Count of Foix 1436–1472 |
Succeeded by Francis |