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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)
Gaston III, known as Gaston 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 until his death. Due to his ancestral inheritance, Gaston III was overlord of about ten territories located between the Pays de Gascogne and Languedoc.
The County of Foix (French: Comté de Foix, pronounced; Occitan: Comtat de Fois, pronounced locally; Catalan: Comtat de Foix, pronounced) was a medieval fief in southern France, and later a province of France, whose territory corresponded roughly the eastern part of the modern département of Ariège (the western part of Ariège being Couserans).
Portrait of Gaston de Foix. Gaston de Foix (1448 – 25 March 1500), Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges, was a French nobleman in the last decades of the Middle Ages. He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France. He was a son of John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal and Margaret Kerdeston. [1] Gaston succeeded as the Count ...
Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours; H. Henri I, Duke of Nemours; ... Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours; Louis, Duke of Orléans (1703–1752) Louis Philippe II, Duke of ...