Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale

Gaston de Foix
Born	1448
Died	25 March 1500 (aged 51–52)
Noble family	Foix
Spouse(s)	Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale
Father	John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal
Mother	Margaret Kerdeston

Gaston de Foix (1448 – 25 March 1500), Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges, was a French nobleman in the last decades of the Middle Ages. He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France. He was a son of John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal and Margaret Kerdeston.

Gaston succeeded as the Count of Benauges in France. As an heir of John de Foix, Earl of Kendal, he also continued to claim that English peerage and therefore was styled Comte de Candale. He firstly married Infanta Catherine of Navarre, the youngest daughter of Gaston IV, Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Navarre. They had four children:

• Gaston de Foix, 3rd Count of Candale.
• Jean de Foix, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
• Pierre de Foix, died without issue.
• Anne of Foix-Candale, married King Vladislaus II of Hungary.

In 1494, he remarried with Isabelle of Albret, daughter of Alain I of Albret. They had four children:

• Alain de Foix, married Françoise dite de Montpezat des Prez.
• Louise de Foix (died 1534), married François de Melun, Count of Epinoy and Knight in the Order of the Golden Fleece.
• Amanieu de Foix (died 1541), Bishop of Carcassonne and Mâcon.
• Marguerite de Foix.

He also had three illegitimate children.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale

16. Pierre II de Grailly 8. Archambaud de Grailly 17. Erembourg de Périgord 4. Gaston I de Foix-Grailly 18. Roger Bernard V, Viscount of Castelbon 9. Isabella, Countess of Foix 19. Géraude de Navailles 2. John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal 20. Bernard Ezi IV, Lord of Albret 10. Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret 21. Mathe of Armagnac 5. Marguerite of Albret 22. Peter I, Duke of Bourbon 11. Margaret of Bourbon 23. Isabella of Valois 1. Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale 24. Sir William Kerdeston 12. Sir Leonard Kerdeston 25. Cecily Brewes 6. Sir Thomas Kerdeston 26. William Brown 13. Margaret Brown 27. Anne Hastings 3. Margaret Kerdeston 28. Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk 14. Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 29. Katherine Wingfield 7. Elizabeth de la Pole 30. Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford 15. Katherine de Stafford 31. Philippa de Beauchamp

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