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Name: Gaston De FOIX, K.G., Count of Benauges
Sex: M
Birth: 4 ^b
Death: Abt 1458 in Meille (Aragon) ^d

Parents:

Father:
Archembaud De Grailly, Vicount Of Castillon Birth: Abt 1329 Death: 12 Feb 1412/3

Mother:

Isabel De FOIX Death: 1426

Family:
Marriage:

Marguerite De Albret on 10 Apr 1410 .^m1
Marguerite De Albret Death: 1453 in Bordeaux

Children:

Jean De FOIX, K.G., Vicount of Castillon, Ea Birth: Abt 1414 Death: After 5 Dec 1485

Bibliography

Beltz, George Frederick, Memorials of the most noble Order of the Garter. London: Pickering, 1841. Available at http://archive.org/details/memorialsofmostn00beltuoft Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Beltz KnightsofGarter p[0-9]*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 07 Hussee-Lincolnshire. London: St Catherine Press, 1929. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VII [Ap][p0-9].*].
Cokayne, George Edward, Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, vol 08, Lindley-Moate. London: St Catherine Press, 1932. Reprinted (4 per page) Gloucester: A Sutton, 1982. Available at https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/271412 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CP VIII [Ap][p0-9].*].
Richardson, Douglas, Royal Ancestry. Salt Lake City, Utah: Douglas Richardson, 2013. NYPL JFF 16-1184 v1-5 Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p[0-9]*].
Thompson, Neil D, and Hansen, Charles M, Medieval Heritage: The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England, The Genealogist, 2:157-68, 3:25-44, 3:175-94, 4:144-58, 5:64-72, 5:226-39, 6:100-3, 6:148-65, 7-8:137-43, 9:40-4, 10:73-85, 11:63-72, 11:184-93, 12:83-90, 12:250-6, 13:92-9, 13:252-6, 14:81-4, 14:207-10, 15:99-103, 15:220-4, 16:93-8, 16:227-31, 17:61-4, 17:250-5, 18:123-7, 18:228-31, 19:62-8, 19:251-5, 20:85-8, 20:184-90, 21:71-5, 21:250-4, 22:101-6, 22:186-91, 23:73-9, 23:203-8, 24:110-27, 24:239-54, 25:56-73, 25:214-32, 26:77-101, 26:202-26, 27:189, 28:90, 33:300. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Reprinted, with further corrections, as Thompson, Neil D, and Hansen, Charles M, The Ancestry of Charles II, King of England: A Medieval Heritage. Saline, Michigan: McNaughton & Gunn, 2012. NYPL ARF 13-5787. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v[0-9]*-[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:: younger son [Ref: CP VIII p127],
parents:: [Ref: CP VIII p127, Thompson CharlesII v11-190]

Sources for death Information

date:: abt 1458 [Ref: Beltz KnightsofGarter pclxii, CP VIII p128, Thompson CharlesII v05-234],
place:: [Ref: CP VIII p128, Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

Sources with Information about marriage to Marguerite De Albret

date:: [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]; Apr 1410 [Ref: CP VIII p128],
child:: [Ref: CP VII p108 (with corr in XIV p406), Richardson RoyalAnc v2p419, Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

Research Notes:
Count of Longueville [Ref: Beltz KnightsofGarter pclxii, CP VIII p127, Thompson CharlesII v05-234]
Count of Benauges [Ref: CP VII p108, Thompson CharlesII v05-234]
Vicomte of Benauges and Leongueville [Ref: Richardson RoyalAnc v2p419]
Captal of Buch [Ref: Beltz KnightsofGarter pclxii, CP VII p108, Richardson RoyalAnc v2p419, Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

1413: succeeded Grailly and Guienne lordships [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

abt 18 Sep 1438: K.G.#155, succeeding Edward king of Portugal [Ref: Beltz KnightsofGarter pclx]

K.G. [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

1419: created Count of Longueville [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

11 Jun 1419: created Count of Longueville in Normandy [Ref: CP VIII p127]

1426: created Count of Genauges [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

28 Jul 1426: created Count of Benauges (Guinees) [Ref: CP VIII p128]

1451: sold his Guienne lands to his nephew the Count of Foix [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

sold his lordship of Grailly to ransom his son Jean [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

retired after the English defeat in Guienne to his estates in Aragon [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

partisian of the English and one of their commissioners with France; fought at Agincourt with the English [Ref: Thompson CharlesII v05-234]

Pedigree of Gaston De FOIX, K.G., Count of Benauges
                            /-----Jean I De Grailly, Vicount Of Benauges
                   /-----Pierre I De Grailly, Vicount Of Benauges
                  |        |         /-----Gaillard Seigneur Of Landirons
                  |         \-----Clairemonde De La Motte
          /-----Pierre II De Grailly, Vicount Of Benauges
         |         \-----Thalese De Bouville
/-----Archembaud De Grailly, Vicount Of Castillon
|        |         /-----Helie VII Count Of Perigord
|         \-----Rosemburge Of Perigord
|                  \-----Brunissence De Foix
Gaston De FOIX, K.G., Count of Benauges
|                  /-----Roger-Bernard I Vicount Of Castelbon
|         /-----Roger Bernard II Vicount Of Castelbon
|        |         \-----Constanza Perez De Luna
\-----Isabel De FOIX
         |         /-----Garcie Arnaud V Baron of Navailles
          \-----Gerarde Of Navailles
                   \-----Bearnaise De Miremont

Descendants of Gaston De FOIX, K.G., Count of Benauges

1. Gaston De FOIX, K.G., Count of Benauges m. Marguerite De Albret

m. Marguerite De Albret father: Amanjeu Sire Of Albret, Vicount Of Tartas mother: Marguerite Of Bourbon

2+ Jean De FOIX, K.G., Vicount of Castillon, Ea m. Margaret KERDESTON

2nd generation

2. Jean De FOIX, K.G., Vicount of Castillon, Ea m. Margaret KERDESTON

m. Margaret KERDESTON father: Sir Thomas De KERDESTON mother: Elizabeth De La POLE

3+ Gaston De FOIX, Count Of Candale m1. Catherine De FOIX m2. Isabel De Albret

4+ Jean De FOIX, Vicount Of Meille m. Anne De VILLENEUVE

5 Marguerite De FOIX m. Louis Count Of Saluzzo

6 Catherine De FOIX m. Charles D'ARMAGNAC

3rd generation

3. Gaston De FOIX, Count Of Candale m1. Catherine De FOIX m2. Isabel De Albret