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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.
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)
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In 1507, it was given by Louis XII of France to his nephew, Gaston de Foix, who was killed at the Battle of Ravenna in 1512. The duchy then returned to the royal domain and was detached from it successively for Giuliano de Medici and his wife Philiberta of Savoy in 1515, for Louise of Savoy in 1524, and for Philip of Savoy, Count of Genevois ...
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).
Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale; Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours; Gaston I, Count of Foix; Gaston II, Count of Foix; Gaston III, Count of Foix; Gaston IV, Count of Foix; Gaston, Prince of Viana; Germaine of Foix