Jean de Foix ( fr. Jean de Foix ; c. 1425 - 1485 ) - from 1461 Kaptal de Bouchet, Viscount de Castillon and de Meil, Count de Benojs, in 1446-1461 the English Count Kendel (pronounced Chandal in French) .
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The son of Gaston de Foix, Captal de Bouche (1400-1456) and Margarita d'Albray, daughter of Arno Amagnieux, Senor d'Albray .
Like his father, he was in the English service. In 1446 he was awarded the Order of the Garter and received the title of Count Kendel.
In 1451, Gaston de Foix, Jean's father, sold all his possessions in parts. And after his death (1456), his son did not get anything from them.
At the Battle of Castiglione on July 17, 1453, Jean de Foix was captured by the French. By order of King Charles VII, he was held in the castle of Tailburg under the supervision of Olivier de Cotivi, Seneschal Guyenne. He was released on January 18, 1460, promising to pay Olivier a ransom of 23,850 ecu, of which 5,850 actually paid.
He left for England, and was captured at the Battle of Northampton (July 10 of that year). He was transferred to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick , and returned with him to France.
In 1461, the new king Louis XI forced Olivier de Cotivi to write off a debt of 18 thousand ecu. After that, Jean de Foix was able to redeem the former possessions of his father - the Captalat de Bouche, the county of Benoges and the Viscountry of Castiglion. After that, he entered the French service and refused the Order of the Garter, but retained the title of Count Kendal (Chandal), which his descendants used until 1714.
Family
Jean de Foix in 1446 married Margaret Curdston, daughter of Sir Thomas Kenderston and Elizabeth de la Paul, niece of the Duke of Suffolk . Four of their children are known:
- Gaston de Foix, Count of Chandal
- Jean de Foix, Count de Guircon, de Flea, de Meil
- Caterina de Foix, wife of Charles, Count d'Armagnac
- Margarita de Foix, wife of Lodovico II, Marquis of Saluzzo .
Sources
- Notice sur la vicomté de Bezaume, le comté de Benauges by Jean François Bladé Published 1878
- Paul Marchegay, “La rançon d'Olivier de Coëtivy, seigneur de Taillebourg et sénéchal de Guyenne, 1451-1477”, Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes, année 1877, volume 38, p. 5-48
- Jean Duquesne Dictionnaire des gouverneurs de province, éditions Christian, Paris 2002, ( ISBN 2864960990 ) p. 158.