Gaston IV, comte de Foix

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Gaston IV, Count of Foix, Viscount of Bearn (27 November 1422 - 25 July/28 July 1472) was a French nobleman, who founded a brief-ruling dynastic house of the Kingdom of Navarre. He was a son of John I of Foix-Grailly and Joan of Albret. His maternal grandparents were Charles d'Albret, Constable of France and co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt where he was killed, and his wife Marie de Sully. Gaston married the Navarrese Infanta, Leonor, in 1436. Her parents were John II and Blanche I of Navarre. At the time, Leonor appeared to have few prospects: her father was a younger son and brother of the Kings of Aragon, and Leonor had a brother, Charles of Viana, and an older sister, Blanca, standing between herself and the inheritance of Navarre. However, family dissent and death eliminated both Charles and Blanca; Leonor's father usurped the Navarrese throne, to which he added in 1458 the throne of Aragon (his older brother having died without legitimate children), and, following the deaths of Charles and Blanca, promised the inheritance of Navarre to Leonor and her husband in return for their loyalty to him, which was given. They had eight children:

1. Gaston de Foix (1443-1470), (sometimes called “Gaston V of Foix”), Viscount of Castelbon, prince of Viana (1462-1470), lieutenant general of Navarre (1469). By Magdalena of Valois, Gaston V fathered two monarchs of Navarre, François Phébus (1468-1483) and Catherine of Navarre (1468-1517)

2. Jean de Foix (1446-1500), Viscount of Narbonne (1468-1500), count d' Étampes (1478-1500). He claimed the throne of Navarre upon the death of his nephew François Phébus. He married in 1476 Marie of Orleans (1457-1493)

3. Margaret of Foix (1449-1486), married on June 27, 1471 at Clisson with Francis II, Duke of Brittany. They were parents of Anne of Brittany, twice queen of France as consort to both Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France.

4. Pierre de Foix (February 7, 1449 to August 10, 1490), (sometimes called “Pierre II of Foix”), called Pierre the Young, cardinal (1576), viceroy of Navarre (1479-1484)

5. Marie de Foix (c.1452-1467)

6. Jeanne de Foix (c.1454-c.1476), married in August 1469 in Lectoure, with Jean V of Armagnac (1420-1473).

7. Catherine de Foix (c.1460-before 1494), married in 1469 with Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (c.1440-1500), (sometimes called “Gaston II of Foix”).

8. Jacques de Foix (1470-1500), Count of Montfort

Gaston died in 1472, outlived by his wife and father-in-law.

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Gaston IV, Count of Foix, Viscount of Bearn (27 November 1422 - 25 July/28 July 1472) was a French nobleman, who founded a brief-ruling dynastic house of the Kingdom of Navarre. He was a son of John I of Foix-Grailly and Joan of Albret. His maternal grandparents were Charles d'Albret, Constable of France and co-commander of the French army at the Battle of Agincourt where he was killed, and his wife Marie de Sully. Gaston married the Navarrese Infanta, Leonor, in 1436. Her parents were John II and Blanche I of Navarre. At the time, Leonor appeared to have few prospects: her father was a younger son and brother of the Kings of Aragon, and Leonor had a brother, Charles of Viana, and an older sister, Blanca, standing between herself and the inheritance of Navarre. However, family dissent and death eliminated both Charles and Blanca; Leonor's father usurped the Navarrese throne, to which he added in 1458 the throne of Aragon (his older brother having died without legitimate children), and, following the deaths of Charles and Blanca, promised the inheritance of Navarre to Leonor and her husband in return for their loyalty to him, which was given. Gaston died in 1472, outlived by his wife and father-in-law.

Archambault's eldest son, John (c. 1382-1436), who succeeded to his father's lands and titles in 1412, had married in 1402 Jeanne, daughter of Charles III., king of Navarre. Having served the king of France in Guienne and the king of Aragon in Sardinia, John became the royal representative in Languedoc, when the old quarrel between Foix and Armagnac broke out again. During the struggle between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs, he intrigued with both parties, and consequently was distrusted by the dauphin, afterwards King Charles VII. Deserting the cause of France, he then allied himself with Henry V. of England; but when Charles VII. became king in 1422, he returned to his former allegiance and became the king's representative in Languedoc and Guienne. He then assisted to suppress the marauding bands which were devastating France; fought for Aragon against Castile; and aided his brother, the cardinal of Foix, to crush some insurgents in Aragon. Peter, cardinal of Foix (1386-1464), was the fifth son of Archambault of Grailly, and was made archbishop of Arles in 1450. He took a prominent part in the struggle between the rival popes, and founded and endowed the College de Foix at Toulouse. The next count was John's son, Gaston IV., who married Leonora (d. 1479), a daughter of John, king of Aragon and Navarre. In 144 7 he bought the viscounty of Narbonne, and having assisted King Charles VII. in Guienne, he was made a peer of France in 1458. In 1455 his father-in-law designated him as his successor in Navarre, and Louis XI. of France gave him the counties of Rousillon and Cerdagne, and made him his representative in Languedoc and Guienne; but these marks of favour did not prevent him from joining a league against Louis in 1471.