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Jacques de Foix, Count of Montfort

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Name
  
Jacques Foix,

Role
  
Count of Montfort

Parents
  
Eleanor of Navarre


Jacques de Foix, Count of Montfort

Siblings
  
Joan, Countess of Armagnac

Grandparents
  
Blanche I of Navarre, John II of Aragon and Navarre

Great-grandparents
  
Ferdinand I of Aragon, Charles III of Navarre, Eleanor of Castile, Queen of Navarre, Eleanor of Alburquerque

Jacques de Foix, was a Count of Montfort and "Captal Buch," and the so-called “Infante of Navarre”.

Born about 1470 he was the ninth son of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Bigorre, Viscount of Béarn, and his wife Eleanor (or Leonora) of Aragon, Queen of Navarre.

He was Governor of Béarn and Lieutenant-General of Lower Navarre for the king.

Married in 1485 and divorced in 1494 to Ana de Peralta, daughter of Pedro de Peralta, 1st Count de Santisteban y Lerín and his second wife Isabelle de Grailly, but divorced her in 1494.

He Married a second time in 1495 to Catherine de Beaumont, daughter of Louis de Beaumont, 2nd Count de Lerín and his wife Leonor de Aragón. Jacques and his second wife had one child, Jean de Foix, abbot of Saint-Volusien-de-Foix.

Jacques also had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses: Frederic de Foix (d. 1537), Lord d'Almenèches, and Jacques de Foix (d. 7 Apr 1535), Bishop of Oloron and Lescar.

Jacques de Foix, Inft of Navarre died in 1500A.D.

References

Jacques de Foix, Count of Montfort Wikipedia