Margaret of Foix

Margaret of Foix
Margaret's face on her tomb in Nantes
Duchess of Brittany
Tenure	27 June 1471 – 15 May 1486 (&1000000000000001400000014 years, &10000000000000322000000322 days)
Spouse	Francis II, Duke of Brittany
Issue
Anne of Brittany Isabeau of Brittany
House	House of Foix-Grailly
Father	Gaston IV, Count of Foix
Mother	Eleanor of Navarre
Born	c. 1453
Died	15 May 1486 (aged 32–33) Nantes
Burial	Nantes Cathedral
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Margaret of Foix, (French: Marguerite de Foix) (c. 1453 – 15 May 1486, Nantes), 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 Queen of France from 1491 to 1498 and again from 1499 to 1514, being the wife in succession to Charles VIII and Louis XII
• Isabeau (1478–1490)

Margaret of Foix is buried in the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul of Nantes (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.

References

Margaret of Foix House of Foix-Grailly Born: 1453 Died: 15 May 1486
Royal titles
Preceded by Margaret of Brittany	Duchess consort of Brittany 1471–1486	Succeeded by Catherine de' Medici