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Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours (10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512), nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, [1] was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance. Nephew of King Louis XII of France and general of his armies in Italy from 1511 to 1512, he is noted for his military feats in a career which lasted no longer than a few months.
Gaston de Foix (1443–1470), (sometimes called “Gaston V of Foix”), Viscount of Castelbon, Prince of Viana (1462–1470), lieutenant general of Navarre (1469), married Magdalena of Valois. [ 3 ] Francis Phoebus (1467-1483), King of Navarre, Count of Foix, Viscount of Bearn, died without issue.
Gaston II de Foix, Count of Foix, Viscount of Béarn (1308 – 26 September 1343). [ 1 ] Roger Bernard IV de Foix (1310 – after 24 March 1350), [ 1 ] married Constanza de Luna (1310 – January 1353), [ 2 ] daughter of Artal de Luna, by whom he had three children.
Gaston III of Foix-Béarn was probably born at the Château de Moncade in Orthez. Gaston III (pronounced [g a s t u] in Occitan) was born on 30 April 1331, [c] most likely at Orthez in the Château Moncade.
Funerary monument to Gaston de Foix, commander of the French army, killed at Ravenna. The battle went on for eight hours and left, by contemporary accounts, more than 10,000 dead between both sides, [62] while 17,000 civilians were massacred. [63] The death of Gaston de Foix was a huge blow to the French, and his men were very sad to hear of ...
Gaston, Prince of Viana, also called Gaston de Foix (1445 – 23 November 1470), [1] was the son and heir of Gaston IV, Count of Foix, and Infanta Eleanor of Navarre (later Queen of Navarre). As the expected successor to his mother and his grandfather, John II of Navarre, he was called Prince of Viana. [2]
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.
In 1507, it was given by Louis XII of France to his nephew, Gaston de Foix, who was killed at the Battle of Ravenna in 1512. The duchy then returned to the royal domain and was detached from it successively for Giuliano de Medici and his wife Philiberta of Savoy in 1515, for Louise of Savoy in 1524, and for Philip of Savoy, Count of Genevois ...