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

Portrait of Gaston de Foix

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. Died 1536
• 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

8. Archambaud de Grailly 4. Gaston I de Foix-Grailly 9. Isabella, Countess of Foix 2. John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal 10. Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret 5. Marguerite of Albret 11. Margaret of Bourbon 1. Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale 12. Sir Leonard Kerdeston 6. Sir Thomas Kerdeston 13. Margaret Brown 3. Margaret Kerdeston 14. Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk 7. Elizabeth de la Pole 15. Katherine de Stafford

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