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Gaston III, known as Gaston Phoebus or Fébus (30 April 1331 – 1 August 1391), was the eleventh Count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth Viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343 until his death. Due to his ancestral inheritance, Gaston III was overlord of about ten territories located between the Pays de Gascogne and Languedoc.
The Livre de chasse is a medieval book on hunting, written between 1387 and 1389 by Gaston III, Count of Foix, also known as Fébus or Phoebus, and dedicated to Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. [1] Fébus was one of the greatest huntsmen of his day and his treatise became the standard text on medieval hunting techniques. It was described by ...
The Château de Mauvezin (also known as Château de Gaston Phoebus) is a restored castle in the commune of Mauvezin in the Hautes-Pyrénées département of France. [1]
Gaston II 1315–1343 c. 1308 eldest son of Gaston I and Joan of Artois: Eleanor of Comminges 1327 one son 26 September 1343 Seville aged 34–35 Gaston III Phoebus 1343–1391 30 April 1331 Orthez only son of Gaston II and Eleanor of Comminges Agnes of Navarre Paris 4 August 1349 one son 1 August 1391 L'Hôpital-d'Orion aged 60 Matthew 1391 ...
Gaston III (1331–1391), called Phoebus, the Latin version of Apollo, on account of his beauty, was the most famous member of the House of Foix-Béarn. Like his father he assisted France in her struggle against England, being entrusted with the defence of the frontiers of Gascony.
The Estates of Béarn are the former Provincial Estates of Béarn.It was formed following the death of Gaston III/X of Foix-Béarn, alias Gaston Phoebus, [1] on 1 August 1391, as a sort of Extraordinary Assembly, regrouping the representatives of the various courts of Béarn, most notably those of the "Cour des Communautés" and of the "fr:Cour majour" that had been disbanded by Gaston Phoebus.
1436–1472 : Gaston XI (son of, also count of Foix, viscount of Nébouzan and count of Bigorre, married Eleanor of Navarre, queen of Navarre) (References to "Gaston of Bearn" in history texts often refer to him) 1479–1483 : Francis Phoebus (son of Gaston of Foix, prince of Viane, also king of Navarre, count of Bigorre, count of Foix))
Such a man was the formidable Gaston III, Count of Foix, better known as Gaston Fébus (also spelt Phoebus). He greatly reinforced the fortress's defences and added a new 33-metre-high brick tower, defiantly inscribed in Béarnaise : "Febus me fe" (Fébus made me).