Marguerite de Foix, (c. 1453 [1] – 15 May 1486, Nantes), was, by marriage, Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486. Events 1252 - Pope Innocent IV issues the Papal bull Ad exstirpanda, which authorizes but also limits the Nantes (Naoned Gallo: Naunnt) is a city in western France, located on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast
She was the daughter of Gaston IV of Foix (1425-1472), Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Navarre (1425-1479). 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 Eleanor of Aragon (Leonor ( Olite, Navarre (now Spain) 2 February 1426 &ndash Tudela Navarre (now Spain) 12 February 1479
On 27 June 1474, at Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435-1488), son of Richard of Brittany (1395-1438), comte d'Étampes (1421-1438), and of Marguerite d'Orléans (1406-1466), comtesse de Vertus (b. Events 1358 - Republic of Dubrovnik is founded 1709 - Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden Clisson (Klison is a town in western France, in the département of Loire-Atlantique ( Pays de la Loire) situated at the confluence Francis II (in Breton Frañsez II, in French François II) ( June 23 1433 &ndash September 9 1488 1423). It was François' second marriage, his first wife (Marguerite of Brittany) having died in 1469.
From the union were born two children:
- Anne (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)
Marguerite de Foix is buried in the cathedral of Nantes, beside her husband and Marguerite of Brittany, in a magnificant tomb named the Tomb of François II, and which is a chief French work of the Renaissance. 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 The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere
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