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Margaret of Foix 
Margaret's face on her tomb in Nantes Duchess of Brittany Tenure 27 June 1471 – 15 May 1486
(14 years, 322 days)Spouse Francis II, Duke of Brittany Issue Anne of Brittany
Isabeau of BrittanyHouse House of Foix-Grailly Father Gaston IV, Count of Foix Mother Eleanor of Navarre Born c. 1453 Died 15 May 1486 (aged 32–33)
NantesBurial Nantes Cathedral Religion Roman Catholicism 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.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Margaret of Foix 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. Margaret of Foix 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 References
- ^ Margaret of Foix at Genealogics
- ^ http://nantescathedrale.free.fr/tombeau.htm (French)
Margaret of FoixBorn: 1453 Died: 15 May 1486Royal titles Preceded by
Margaret of BrittanyDuchess consort of Brittany
1471–1486Succeeded by
Catherine de' Medici
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