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  Foix - LoveToKnow 1911
FOIX, a town of south-western France, in the middle ages capital of the counts of Foix, and now capital of the department of Ariege, 51 m.
In the 17th and 18th centuries Foix formed one of the thirty-three governments of France, and in 1790 it was incorporated in the department of Ariege.
Peter, cardinal of Foix (1386-1464), was the fifth son of Archambault of Grailly, and was made archbishop of Arles in 1450.
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 County of Foix (Traditional province, France)
Jean I de Foix-Grailly (1398-1412) purchased in 1415 the county of Bigorre.
In 1584, the duke of Anjou died and Henri was the heir apparent to the throne of France.
In 1590, Henri de Navarre defeated duke of Mayenne and the League in Ivry and Arques (Normandy).
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 Anna of Foix-Candale - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Anna of Foix (1484 – 26 July 1506) was the Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia.
She was born the daughter of Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges and Catherine, Infanta of Navarre.
Her mother Catherine was the youngest daughter of Gaston, Count of Foix, and Eleanor of Aragon, who herself became in 1479 for a couple of weeks the reigning queen of Navarre and died.
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 Jean Gaston is often mentioned as being the son of Gaston, Duke of Orleans, and brother of King Louis XIII of France
Catherine de Foix-Grailly and Jean II d'Albret (1483-1516) were crowned King of Navarre in Pampelona (1494).
Anjou died and Henri was the heir apparent to the throne of
In 1590, Henri de Navarre defeated Duke of Mayenne and the League in Ivry and Arques (
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 Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2004045364
Catherine and her ladies shone in scarlet silk with gold-threaded lace, and behind them rode a dazzling procession of seventy brilliantly attired and bejeweled courtiers.
Catherine was now the owner of a fortune in jewels, including seven glorious pearls thought at the time to be the most beautiful in Christendom; a gold belt studded with rubies and diamonds; and a parure of diamonds and pearls.
For her wedding ceremony, Catherine wore a dress of gold brocade, trimmed with ermine; her tight-fitting bodice was of purple velvet, embroidered with gold thread in the Florentine style, edged with ermine and glittering with precious stones.
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 Albret
John of Albret[?], son of Alain, became king of Navarre by his marriage with Catherine of Foix[?].
Their son Henry, king of Navarre, was created duke of Albret and peer of France in 1550.
By his wife Margaret, sister of the French king, Francis I, he had a daughter, Jeanne d'Albret, queen of Navarre, who married Anthony de Bourbon[?], duke of Vendôme, and became the mother of Henry IV, king of France.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Foix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Lautrec, Odet de Foix, vicomte de, 1485-1528, marshal of France.
Foix, Gaston de, 1489-1512, duc de Nemours, French general in the Italian Wars ; nephew of King Louis XII.
The powerful lords of Albret became kings of Navarre by the marriage (1484) of Jean d'Albret with Catherine de Foix, queen of Navarre, who also brought him Foix and Béarn.
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 My Lines - Person Page 439
She married Gaston de Foix, son of comte de Foix Gaston IV de Grailly and reine de Navarre Eléonore de Navarre, on 7 March 1461.
Milon de Brienne I, comte de Bar-sur-Seine was born in 1075.
Milon II de Brienne, comte de Bar-sur-Seine was the son of Guy I de Brienne, comte de Bar-sur-Seine and Pétronille de Chacenay.
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 Women in power 1500-1540
1505-37 Princess-Abbess Marguerite de Mérode of Munsterbilzen, Dame of Wellen, Haccourt, Hallembaye and Kleine-Spouwen (Belgium)
Daughter of Louis XII and Duchess Anne de Bretagne, sister of Duchess Claude of Bretagne, and married to Hercule II d'Este, duc de Ferrare.
1522-49 Princess-Abbess Adrienne I de Saint Omer of Nivelles, Dame Temporaire and Spirituelle of Nivelles (Belgium)
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 Counts of Foix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Left without legitimate sons, Gaston de Foix was easily persuaded to bequeath his lands to King Charles VI, who thus obtained Foix and Béarn when the count died at Orthez in 1391.
When Catherine, wife of Jean d'Albret, succeeded her brother Francis Phoebus, the House of Foix-Grailly was merged into that of Albret, and later into that of Bourbon with Henry III of Navarre, son of Antoine de Bourbon and Jeanne d'Albret.
County of Foix, Bigorre, Quatre-Vallées, and Nébouzan, but not Béarn and Lower Navarre, which were sovereign countries outside of the kingdom of France), and so the county of Foix became part of the royal domain.
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 Ancestors of King Louis XIV of France and Navarra
Marie de Luxembourg, Comtesse de St.Pol, Ligny et Enghien (*1466, +1.4.1547) * 34.
Frederic VI de Lorraine, Comte de Vaudemont (*1428, +31.8.1470) * 71.
Gaston II de Foix, Comte de Candale et Benauges (+25.3.1500) * 95.
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 Women in power 1500-1540
This was disputed by her first cousin, Louise de Savoie, mother of king François I. Charles entered the service of Emperor Karl V and was declared guilty of leze-majesty, his feudal possessions forfeited to the crown and his personal estate confiscated, but through the intervention of the emperor he was later given his possessions back.
Originally named Marguerite de Foix, she was daughter of Jean de Foix, Count de Benauges, who was created Earl of Kendal for services to England, but relinquished the title on opting for French nationality, and Margaret Kerdeston, Duchess of Suffolk.
Charlotte was daughter of Alain d'Albret, Count de Gavre, de Périgord et de Castres and Françoise de Blois dit de Bretagne, Countess de Perigord.
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 FOIXSTORY : Blasons : Catherine de Foix-Grailly
Le blason est déjà le même que celui du fils Henri II de Navarre, avec ou sans l'écu de Bigorre sur le tout.
Écartelé aux 1 and 4, de gueules, aux chaînes d'or, posées en orle, en croix et en sautoir ; au 2, d'or, à trois pals de gueules ; au 3, d'or, à deux vaches, accornées, accolées et clarinées d'azur ; sur le tout, d'or, à deux lions léopardés de gueule.
Ecartelé aux 1 et 4 de Navarre ; et aux 2 de Foix ; et 3 de Béarn ; sur le tout de Bigorre.
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 FOIX - Online Information article about FOIX
Baum, a tree, to which sense may be referred the use of " beam " as meaning the rood or crucifix, and the survival in certain names of trees, as horn-beam)
account of his beauty, was the most famous member of the old Foix family.
Peter, cardinal of Foix (1386—1464), was the fifth son of Archambault of Grailly, and was made archbishop of See also:
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 Secretplaces – Guide to auThentic and romantic Navarra hotels
By the 11th century, the Kingdom was a heartland of Christian territory, but having successfully resisted the Moorish invaders, it eventually lost its independence when it became an appendage of the French crown (1284-1316) by the marriage of Philip IV to the Heiress of Navarra.
In 1479 Ferdinand of Aragon annexed Spanish Navarra whilst French Navarra went to Catherine of Foix.
The town of Puente de la Reina (Queens Bridge) stands at the meeting point of two main Spanish routes and is a delightful place to visit.
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 Names Index Page
DE JONG, Djoke Wikje Mennes (3 JUL 1961-)
DE JONG, Menno Bouke Jeltes (2 JUL 1943-)
DE JONG, Wytske Jannigje Martina Helena Mennes (23 OCT 1979-)
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 Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
[Cte de Foix; et Cte de Bigorre] b.
Jean de Foix-Candale [1st Earl of Kendal], d.
1415, and had a son, (1) Gaston II de Foix Candale, d.
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 Titles of European hereditary rulers
Lettres inédites de Henry IV à M. de Pailhès, gouverneur du comté de Foix, et aux consuls de la ville de Foix: 1576-1602 (Paris : H. Champion, 1886).
Francis Phœbus (+1483), Count of Foix, Bigorre, Lord of Béarn, Viscount of Castellbo, Marsan, Gabardan, succeeded John of Aragon in Navarra (1479).
In 1484 Queen Catherine of Foix (+1517) married John of Albret (+1516) who was the heir to his mother Françoise of Blois (+1481), Countess of Périgord, Viscountess of Limoges, etc.
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 03 Nov History: This Date
Les vaisseaux de guerre américain mouillent devant les villes de Colon et Panama, dissuadant l'armée colombienne d'intervenir.
Les travaux de construction du canal se révéleront éprouvants, sous le climat tropical et dans la crainte de la malaria.
Lorsqu'il hérita le Royaume de Navarre (le 12 Feb 1479) de sa grand-mère maternelle Eléonore de Navarre [02 Feb 1425 – 12 Feb 1479], n'ayant encore que 12 ans, il resta sous la tutelle de sa mère, Madeleine de France, soeur du Roi de France Louis XI [03 Jul 1423 – 30 Aug 1483].
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 The State Hermitage Museum: Collection Highlights
Also of great interest is the Italian prayer-book (1524) which was a wedding present from Pope Clement VII to Catherine de' Medici.
Such is, for example, The Allegory of Rome representing a woman in a dress flying in the wind, holding a sceptre and orb in her hands, standing against a background of the sea, distant mountains and a castle.
From the Livre de Chasse by Gaston III, Comte de Foix Phebus le Chasseur
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 Reagalia
Palau de l’Almudaina (mediaeval royal palace of the kings of Aragon, later used by Spanish kings).
Palacio de Navarra (palace of the kings of Navarre).
Convento de Sta Clara (former royal palace of King Peter I the Gruesome of Castile and monastery).
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 The True Identity of Fulcanelli and The Da Vinci Code: Laura Knight-Jadczyk
In terms of Green Language clues, the name "De Moles" is rich with meaning, ranging from the possibility of homophonic pronunciation "de Molay," as in the last Grand Master of the Templars, as well as the meaning of "mole," which, in French means "stone," or a jetty: a breakwater.
The whole Camino de Santiago, from San Juan pied de port until Compostela, is populated with villages, places and mountain passes that are named after stars, as if to suggest that the whole Camino is a stellar route, the Milky Way, a route that leads to a special point: the field of the star.
The Celts called this constellation Ilys Don, or the “house of Don,” known as “Tuatha de Danaan.” In this role of Danae, she was the mother of Perseus.
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 Langued'oc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Here is the homeland of the great chansonniers, here is the birthplace of the cult of courtly love, and here were to be found the strongholds of the Cathars, or Albigensians - Mediaeval schismatics whose influence can still be felt.
Covers: Albi, Albret, Angoulême, Aquitaine, Armagnac, the Arverni, Astarac, Auvergne, Avignon, Béarn, Besançon, Beziers, Bigorre, Carcassonne, Fézensac, Foix, Forcalquier, Gascony, La Marche, Limoges, Mâcon, Monaco, Orange, Périgord, Poitou, Provence, Razes, Roussillon, Septimania, Toulouse, and Vienne.
Less a geographic territory than the name of a family, the Albret dynasts were a Gascon clan of old Hispanic origin, who settled at an early date in Aquitaine.
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 Ancestors of Jerry Landers Queen Catherine de Foix   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Marriage: King Jean II de Albret of Navarre 14 Jul 1484, Orthez
Catherine married King Jean II de Albret of Navarre, son of Alain de Albret and Francoise de Blois Countess of Perigord, on 14 Jul 1484 in Orthez.
(King Jean II de Albret of Navarre was born in 1469
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