• Jean de Foix (c. 1415 – 1485) was the Captal de Buch, first Earl of Kendal (Gallicised into "Comte de Candalle"), Vicomte de Castillon, Meilles and Comte...
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    of Foix, Françoise was the daughter of Jean de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, and Jeanne d'Aydie. Her father was the son of Pierre de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec;...
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    Foix (/fwɑː/ fwah, French pronunciation: [fwa] ; Occitan: Fois [ˈfujs, ˈfujʃ]; Catalan: Foix [ˈfoʃ]) is a commune, the former capital of the County of...
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    had four children: Alain de Foix, married Françoise dite de Montpezat des Prez. Louise de Foix (died 1534), married François de Melun, Count of Epinoy and...
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    of his nephew François Phébus. He married in 1476 Marie of Orleans, sister of the future King of France Louis XII. Marguerite de Foix (1449–1486), married...
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    1681. Also called M. De Foix from an abbey of which he was commendatory abbot. J.-M. Vidal, François-Étienne de Caulet, évêque de Pamiers (1610–1680) (Paris...
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    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. She was the...
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    Phoebus or Fébus (30 April 1331 – 1 August 1391), was the eleventh Count of Foix (as Gaston III) and twenty-fourth Viscount of Béarn (as Gaston X) from 1343...
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    among its bishops during the second half of the sixteenth century François de Foix, Count of Candale, an illustrious mathematician, who translated Euclid...
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    d'Ossau was reputedly first climbed in 1552 by an expedition led by François de Foix-Candale, later to become the Bishop of Aire. Although the success of...
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  • Spanish: Inés de Navarra; 1337 – 4 February 1397) was the daughter of Philip III of Navarre and Joan II of Navarre, and became Countess of Foix on marriage...
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  • of François de Foix-Candale, Bishop of Aire, at the Augustinian convent of Bordeaux. On 3 September 1597, he signed a contract with Jean-Louis de Nogaret...
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    Foix-Candale (1484 – 26 July 1506) was Queen of Hungary and Bohemia as the third wife of King Vladislaus II. Anne was the daughter of Gaston of Foix,...
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  • de Foix, 2nd comte de Candale (d. 1500) Gaston III de Foix, 3rd comte de Candale (d. 1536) Frédéric de Foix, 4th comte de Candale (d. 1571) Henri de Foix...
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    The first was Françoise de Foix, Countess of Châteaubriant. In 1526, she was replaced by the blonde-haired, cultured Anne de Pisseleu d'Heilly, Duchess...
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    Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix (5 February 1698 – 25 August 1776) was an 18th-century French writer and playwright. He served with the musketeers...
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    financier Maximilien Radix de Sainte-Foix, an important secret advisor of the sovereign; with the bankers Joseph Duruey, and Tourteau de Septeuil; with Arnaud...
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    as Gonzales, Harriette Taylor as Margaret Valois and Ellen Kean as Francois de Foix. Kemble had originally conceived it as a historical novel before converting...
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    Bordeaux. Marguerite de Foix-Candale was a wealthy heiress (1567-1593) of the House of Foix, and they had four sons: Henry, duke of Foix-Candale (1591–1639);...
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    of Foix, where she gave an early proof of literary and poetical talent. Her mother, Pulcherie de Fay Collon, lived in the court of the Count de Foix, and...
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    January 1483) was King of Navarre (1479–1483), Viscount of Bearn, and Count of Foix (1472). He was the son of Gaston, Prince of Viana, and grandson of Queen...
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    Guise during the French Wars of Religion. The son of Guy d'Aydie and Marie de Foix-Candale, Ribérac enjoyed a highly prominent position among the nobility...
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  • (1662–1665) Henri-François de Foix (1639–1714), duke-peer of Randan (1666–1714) La Meilleraye duchy-peerage in 1663, 4 holders Charles de La Porte (1602–1664)...
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    region of Occitanie. It is named after the river Ariège and its capital is Foix. Ariège is known for its rural landscape, with a population of 153,287 as...
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    Society for reasons of health and became Vicar-General of Agen. The Vie de Suzanne de Foix, a biography of his aunt, was written by him and published while at...
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  • French footballer François Poullain de la Barre Frankie Poullain (born 1967), bass player Germain-François Poullain de Saint-Foix, French writer and...
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    roles of Shakespeare's Romeo to the Juliet of Fanny Kemble, Françoise de Foix in Francis the First, and Lady Townley in The Provoked Husband. In 1832...
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    Co-princes of Andorra (category Counts of Foix)
    Founded in 1278 by a treaty between the bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix, this unique diarchical arrangement has persisted through the Middle Ages...
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    Paul de Beauvilliers, 2nd duc de Saint-Aignan, pair de France and grandee of Spain. Henri-François de Foix de Candale, duc de Randan, pair de France...
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  • Meanwhile, Maître Foix locates François and offers him money to let Elena move in with him and pretend they are a couple. François agrees and asks for...
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