Margaret of Foix


Margaret of Foix was Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1487 by marriage to Duke Francis II.

Life

She was the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre and of Gaston IV, Count of Foix.
On 27 June 1471, at the Château de Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany, son of Richard of Brittany, Count of Étampes, and Margaret of Orléans, Countess of Vertus. 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 beside her husband and Margaret of Brittany, in a magnificent tomb constructed in the early French Renaissance style.

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