- Gaston III of Foix-Béarn
Gaston III/X of Foix-Béarn, also Gaston Fébus or Gaston Phoebus (
April 30 ,1331 - 1391) was the 11thcount of Foix , and viscount ofBéarn (1343-1391). Officially, he was Gaston III of Foix and Gaston X of Béarn.He was born in
Orthez , the son of Gaston II/IX (1308-1343) and his wife Aliénor. He married Agnès (1334-1396), daughter ofPhilip III of Navarre andJoan II of Navarre .Béarn had passed to the county of Foix in 1290. Count Gaston III Fébus paid homage to the king for his own county, but refused to give homage for Béarn, which he claimed as an independent fief, with its chief seat his stronghold at Pau, a site that had been fortified by the 11th century, which was later made the official capital of Béarn Province in 1464.
Jean Froissart recorded the splendor of the court of Orthez under Gaston Fébus in the latter half of the 14th century. Gaston recorded the three "special delights" of his life as "arms, love and hunting"; he wrote an important treatise on the latter entitled "Livre de chasse".He was succeeded as count of Foix by
Mathieu of Foix-Castelbon .ee also
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Se Canta , an Occitan song attributed to Gaston Fébus.
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