House House of Foix-Grailly | Name Margaret Foix | |
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Tenure 27 June 1474 – 15 May 1486 Children Anne of Brittany, Isabeau of Brittany Siblings Joan, Countess of Armagnac Parents Eleanor of Navarre, Gaston IV, Count of Foix Similar People Anne of Brittany, Eleanor of Navarre, Claude of France, Charles VIII of France, Louis XII of France | ||
Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix) (c. 1449 – 15 May 1486) was, by marriage, Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486.
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Life
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.
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, and which is a major early work of the French Renaissance.