Margaret of Foix
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Marguerite de Foix, (c.1449 – 15 May 1486, Nantes), was, by marriage, Duchess of Brittany from 1474 to 1486.
She was the daughter of Gaston IV of Foix (1425-1472), Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Navarre (1426-1479).
On 27 June 1474, at Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435-1488), son of Richard of Brittany (1395-1438), comte d'Étampes (1421-1438), and of Marguerite d'Orléans (1406-1466), comtesse de Vertus (1423-?). It was François' second marriage, his first wife (Marguerite of Brittany) having died in 1469.
From the union were born two children:
- Anne (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)
Marguerite de Foix is buried in the cathedral of Nantes, beside her husband and Marguerite of Brittany, in a magnificant tomb named the Tomb of François II, and which is a chief French work of the Renaissance.
