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Duchess of Brittany

Margaret of Foix
Margaret's face on her tomb in Nantes
Duchess consort of Brittany
Tenure	27 June 1474 – 15 May 1486

Born	c. 1449
Died	15 May 1486 Château de Nantes, Nantes
Burial	Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul, Nantes
Spouse	Francis II, Duke of Brittany (m. 1474)
Issue	Anne, Duchess of Brittany Isabeau of Brittany
House	Foix-Grailly
Father	Gaston IV, Count of Foix
Mother	Eleanor of Navarre

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

Life

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

On 27 June 1471, at the Château de Clisson, she married Francis II, Duke of Brittany (1435–1488), son of Richard of Brittany, Count of Étampes (1395–1438), and Margaret of Orléans, Countess of Vertus (1406–1466). It was Francis's second marriage, his first wife, Margaret of Brittany, having died in 1469.

Margaret of Foix died at the Château de Nantes in Nantes and is interred 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 constructed in the early French Renaissance style.

Anne of Brittany (1477–1514), Duchess of Brittany (1488–1514), and twice Queen of France: from 1491 to 1498 as the wife of King Charles VIII of France, and from 1499 to 1514 as the wife of King Louis XII of France.
Isabeau of Brittany (1478–1490), betrothed to Jean d'Albret in 1481, died young, and was buried in the Rennes Cathedral.

Booton, Diane E. (2010). Manuscripts, Market and the Transition to Print in Late Medieval Brittany. Ashgate Publishing.
Woodacre, Elena (2013). The Queens Regnant of Navarre: Succession, Politics, and Partnership, 1274-1512. Palgrave Macmillan.
Anthony, R. (1931). Identification et Étude des Ossements des Rois de Navarre inhumés dans la Cathédrale de Lescar [Identification and Study of the Bones of the Kings of Navarre buried in the Cathedral of Lescar] (PDF). Archives du Muséum, 6e series (in French). Vol. VII. Masson et Cie.

Royal titles
Margaret of Foix House of Foix-GraillyBorn: c. 1449 Died: 15 May 1486
Preceded byMargaret of Brittany	Duchess consort of Brittany 1471–1486	Succeeded byCatherine de' Medici

Consorts to early monarchs

c. 578–907	Argentaela Marmohec Wembrit Prostlon of Brittany Lotitia of Brittany Oreguen of Rennes

938–958	Roscille of Anjou Aremburge

958–1072	Ermengarde-Gerberga of Anjou Hawise of Normandy Bertha of Blois

House of Cornouaille

1072–1156	Constance of Normandy Ermengarde of Anjou Matilda FitzRoy

1156–1196	Margaret of Huntingdon

1221–1341	Blanche of Navarre Yolande of Dreux Isabella of Castile Joan of Savoy

1341–1365	Joanna of Flanders

1365–1514	Mary of Waltham Joan Holland Joan of Navarre Joan of France Isabella of Scotland Françoise d'Amboise Catherine of Luxembourg-Saint-Pol Margaret of Brittany Margaret of Foix

1514–1547	Catherine de' Medici

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