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Gaston de Foix, duc de Nemours (10 December 1489 – 11 April 1512), nicknamed The Thunderbolt of Italy, [1] was a famed French military commander of the Renaissance. Nephew of King Louis XII of France and general of his armies in Italy from 1511 to 1512, he is noted for his military feats in a career which lasted no longer than a few months.
Duke of Nemours was a title in the Peerage of France. ... Gaston of Foix (1507–1512) House of Medici (1515–1524) Giuliano de' Medici (1515–1516), married to:
The subject was traditionally identified with the French military leader Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, or as a self-portrait, although there is no documentary evidence for either hypothesis. The identification with Gaston de Foix is devoid of documentary evidence, as well as certainly improbable, since it would have been a posthumous ...
Gaston of Foix (Gaston de Foix) may refer to: Gaston I of Foix-Béarn (d. 1315) Gaston II of Foix-Béarn (1308–1343) Gaston III of Foix-Béarn (1331–1391) Gaston IV of Foix (1422–1472) Gaston of Foix, Prince of Viana (1444–1470) Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours (1489–1512) Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (d. 1500)
The Duke of Nemours, duchy-peerage created in 1507, Quarterly or three pallets gules and or two cows gules horned, collared and belled azure. Inescutcheon or, two lions passant gules armed and langued azure. Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours: The Duke of Angoulême, duchy-peerage created in 1515, Gules a cross argent. The holder of the title was ...
Funerary monument to Gaston de Foix, commander of the French army, killed at Ravenna. The battle went on for eight hours and left, by contemporary accounts, more than 10,000 dead between both sides, [62] while 17,000 civilians were massacred. [63] The death of Gaston de Foix was a huge blow to the French, and his men were very sad to hear of ...
He left a son, Gaston de Foix (1489–1512), a distinguished French general, and a daughter, Germaine de Foix, who became the second wife of Ferdinand II of Aragon. [4] In 1507, Gaston exchanged his viscounty of Narbonne with King Louis XII of France for the duchy of Nemours, and as duke of Nemours he took
Thomas de Foix-Lescun; André de Foix; Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours; Odet of Foix, Viscount of Lautrec; Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona; Francis, Duke of Châtellerault; François de Vendôme, vidame de Chartres; Christoph Frankopan; Wilhelm Frölich; Georg von Frundsberg