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Duchess of Brittany From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix; c. 1449[1]– 15 May 1486[2]) was Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486 by marriage to Duke Francis II.
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Duchess consort of Brittany | |
Tenure | 27 June 1474 – 15 May 1486 |
Born | c. 1449 |
Died | 15 May 1486 Château de Nantes, Nantes |
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House | Foix-Grailly |
Father | Gaston IV, Count of Foix |
Mother | Eleanor of Navarre |
She was the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre (1425–1479) and of Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1425–1472).[3]
On 27 June 1471, at the Château de Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488),[4] son of Richard of Brittany, Count of Étampes (1395–1438), and Margaret of Orléans, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466). It was Francis's second marriage, his first wife, Margaret of Brittany, having died in 1469.
Margaret of Foix died at the Château de Nantes in Nantes and is interred 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[5] constructed in the early French Renaissance style.