Jacques de Foix, Count of Montfort
Jacques de Foix, was a Count of Montfort and "Captal Buch," and the so-called “Infante of Navarre”.
Born about 1470 he was the ninth son of Gaston IV, Count of Foix and Bigorre, Viscount of Béarn, and his wife Eleanor (or Leonora) of Aragon, Queen of Navarre.
He was Governor of Béarn and Lieutenant-General of Lower Navarre for the king.[1][2]
Married in 1485 and divorced in 1494 to Ana de Peralta, daughter of Pedro de Peralta, 1st Count de Santisteban y Lerín and his second wife Isabelle de Grailly, but divorced her in 1494.
He Married a second time in 1495 to Catherine de Beaumont, daughter of Louis de Beaumont, 2nd Count de Lerín and his wife Leonor de Aragón. Jacques and his second wife had one child, Jean de Foix, abbot of Saint-Volusien-de-Foix.[3]
Jacques also had two illegitimate children by unknown mistresses: Frederic de Foix (d. 1537), Lord d'Almenèches, and Jacques de Foix (d. 7 Apr 1535), Bishop of Oloron and Lescar.
Jacques de Foix, Inft of Navarre died in 1500A.D.
References
- ↑ JACQUES de Foix Infante de Navarra, in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families. Retrieved from "http://www.werelate.org/wiki/Person:Jacques_de_Foix_%281%29"
- ↑ He also had a cousin Jacques de Foix, Foix Corbeyran son of Baron de Rabat, born about 1475, abbot of Saint Volusien and Rule (the Reule) and some books state that it was the bishop of Lescar which held on St. Fonts, little Henry of Navarre, the future Henri IV, King of France.
- ↑ Jacques de Foix at were related.org.