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Subject: Re: gaston of foix
Date: Sat, 7 Sep 1996 21:29:37 GMT


(Manuel Vieira de Carvalho) wrote:

>I would like to know if someone can give me informations about
>the counts of Foix, especially about Gaston IV of
>Foix(d.1472), who married Eleanor, later Queen of
>Navarre(d.1479). This lady was succeeded by Francis of
>Foix(reign 1479-1481) and later by Catherine of Foix(1468-
>1518).
> Can anyone tell me the relationship between these three
>monarchs?

Gaston and Eleanor had a son , Gaston, a noted condottiere, who
predeceased them. His children were Francis Phoebus, who died in 1483,
when his throne was usurped by his uncle, Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Catherine, his sister, inherited just the French provinces, Foix and
Bearn, and bore them to her husband, Jean d'Albret, of whose lack of
skill in reconquering Navarre she said, "This would not have happened
had I been Lord Jean and you been Lady Catherine." Their son was Henri
II of Navarre, who died in 1555. By his wife Marguerite d'Anglouleme,
sister of Francois I of France, he had one daughter, Jeanne d'Albret,
died 1572. By her husband, Antoine de Bourbon, Jeanne had a son, Henri
III of Navarre, who succeeded to the throne of France in 1589 as Henri
IV. The kings of France styled themselves Kings of France and Navarre
thereafter.

The throne of Navarre had come to Juan II of Aragon (d.1479) by his
first marriage to Blanca I, daughter of Carlos III (the Noble). Their
son was Carlos IV, who died in 1461, his father having kept him from
succeeding his mother, who was dead. After his death, the title
rightfully went to his sister, Blanca II, the divorced wife of Enrique
IV of Castille, who was poisoned by her sister Eleanor. Eleanor then
kept her mouth shut in hopes that her father would leave her Navarre,
which he did. She died two weeks after him.

After his first wife's death, however, Juan II married Juana Enriquez,
who bore him a son, Ferdinand, eventually his successor, and the
husband of his cousin, Isabella I of Castille. It was this Ferdniand
who deposed his nephew Francis Phoebus and seized sub-Pyrennean
Navarre. He also deposed his Neapolitan cousins and took their kingdom
too.

Jean Coeur de Lapin

> Tiago Gorgal

"The one thing certain about the judgment of history is that history will
change its mind."

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