Person:Margaret of Foix (1)

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Margaret of Foix (French: Marguerite de Foix) (c. 1449 – 15 May 1486) was, by marriage, Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486.

She was the daughter of Queen Eleanor of Navarre (1425–1479) and of Gaston IV, Count of Foix (1425–1472).

On 27 June 1474, at Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488), son of Richard of Brittany (1395–1438), Count of Étampes (1421–1438), and of Margaret d'Orléans (1406–1466), Countess of Vertus (b. 1423). It was Francis's second marriage, his first wife Margaret of Brittany having died in 1469.

From the union were born two children:

• Anne of Brittany (1477–1514), Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514), and Queen of France from 1491 to 1498 and again from 1499 to 1514, being the wife in succession to Charles VIII and Louis XII
• Isabeau (1478–1490)

Margaret of Foix died at Nantes, where she is buried 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 named the Tomb of Francis II, and which is a major early work of the French Renaissance.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Margaret of Foix, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (Online: Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.).