Margaret of Foix

Margaret of Foix
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.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Margaret of Foix

16. Pierre II de Grailly               8. fr: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

1. 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
2. "Le tombeau de François II" by Frederic Chotard (French)