Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale

Catherine de Foix (c. 1455 – died before 1494) was a French noblewoman.

Catherine de Foix
Born	c. 1455
Died	before 1494
Noble family	House of Foix
Spouse(s)	Gaston II de Foix, Count of Candale and Benauges
Father	Gaston IV, Count of Foix
Mother	Eleanor of Navarre

She was a daughter of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Eleanor of Navarre, and [1] granddaughter of John II of Aragón and Blanche I of Navarre.

Catherine married her second cousin Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale.
They had four children:

• Gaston de Foix, 3rd Count of Candale.[2]
• Jean de Foix, Archbishop of Bordeaux.
• Pierre de Foix, died without issue.
• Anne de Foix, married King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary.[3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Catherine of Foix, Countess of Candale

16. Pierre II de Grailly 8. Archambaud de Grailly 17. Rosamburge de Périgord 4. John I, Count of Foix 18. Roger Bernard IV, Viscount of Castelbon 9. Isabella, Countess of Foix 19. Géraude de Navailles 2. Gaston IV, Count of Foix 20. Arnaud Amanieu, Lord of Albret 10. Charles I, Lord of Albret 21. Margaret of Bourbon 5. Jeanne of Albret 22. Louis, Lord of Sully 11. Marie de Sully 23. Isabeau de Craon 1. Catherine of Foix 24. John I of Castile 12. Ferdinand I of Aragon 25. Eleanor of Aragon 6. John II of Aragon 26. Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque 13. Eleanor of Alburquerque 27. Beatrice of Portugal 3. Eleanor of Navarre 28. Charles II of Navarre 14. Charles III of Navarre 29. Joan of Valois 7. Blanche I of Navarre 30. Henry II of Castile 15. Eleanor of Castile 31. Juana Manuel

Notes

1. Revue de l'Agenais, Volume 4, Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen, Société académique d'Agen, (P. Noubel, Impremeur-Editeur, 1877), 497.
2. Légé, Joseph, Les Castelnau-Tursan: par l'Abbē Légé, Vol. 1, (Aire-Sur-L'Adour, 1887), 333.
3. Légé, 333.

References

• Revue de l'Agenais, Volume 4, Société des sciences, lettres et arts d'Agen, Société académique d'Agen, P. Noubel, Impremeur-Editeur, 1877.
• Légé, Joseph, Les Castelnau-Tursan: par l'Abbē Légé, Vol. 1, Aire-Sur-L'Adour, 1887.