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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.[1]
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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 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.[2] They had four children:
In 1494, he remarried with Isabelle of Albret, daughter of Alain I of Albret. They had four children:
He also had three illegitimate children.[citation needed]
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