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Margaret de la Pole

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Noble family
  
House of Foix

Name
  
Margaret la

Died
  
after 5 December 1485

Mother
  
Marie dite de Sicile

Father
  
Sir John de la Pole


Spouse(s)
  
John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal

Margaret de la Pole (1426 – after 5 December 1485), Countess of Kendal (Candale). Paternal grandmother of Anne of Foix-Candale, queen of Hungary and Bohemia.

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Life

She was the daughter of Sir John de la Pole (d. 1429) and Marie dite de Sicile. Her father was the youngest son of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk and younger brother of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk. She married John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal, she gave birth to four children, including Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale.

She is buried at the church of Castelnau-de-Médoc with her husband.

Children

  • From her husband, John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal:
  • Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (ca. 1448-1500) 1st wife Infanta Catherine of Navarre (ca. 1455 – before 1494), issue, including Anne of Foix-Candale queen of Hungary, 2nd wife Isabel of Albret, the daughter of Alain I of Albret (d. ca. 1530), another children.
  • John (d. 1521) viscount of Meille in Aragon, count of Fleix and Gurson, his wife Anne de Villeneuve (d. 1567): issue, the dukes of Randan.
  • Catherine (d. 1510), her husband Charles I, Count of Armagnac (1425–1497): without issue
  • Margaret (d. 1534/36), her husband, Ludovico II, Marquess of Saluzzo (1438–1504): issue.
  • References

    Margaret de la Pole Wikipedia