County of Foix

the county of Foix is old a Province of France created at the 10th century for the count Bernard-Roger de Foix. It was consisted the fusion of the Comté of Carcassonne with the seigniory of Foix. It became then Province of Foix and is today entirely in the Département of Ariège.

History

The county of Foix belonged to the country of the Volques Tectosages under the Romain S; was divided into top and low country of Foix, and had as principal places: in the high-country, Foix, Tarascon, Ax; in the low-country, Pamiers, Saverdun, Lézat-on-Lèze, Farmhouse-with Azil.

The county of Foix, after having belonged to the Roman empire, the kingdom of the Visigoth S, monarchy mérovingienne, the Duchy of Aquitaine, the Carolingian empire, and finally of the County of Carcassonne, was detached from this last county at the 11th century, formed initially a seigniory, and was set up in county in 1050 in favor of Roger Ier de Foix, wire of Bernard-Roger de Couserans and grandson of Roger Ier the Old man, count of Carcassonne, Cominges, and Couserans.

If they are first of all vassal counts de Toulouse, the counts de Foix see to increase their power of XIe in XVe century.

The county was plain in 1290 with the Viscount of Béarn. In 1398, Isabelle de Foix, heiress of the county of Foix, carried it in the Maison of Grailly, by its marriage with Archambaud de Grailly. In XIIIe and XIVe centuries the counts de Foix count among most powerful feudal kingdom of France.

The county is set up in county-peerage in 1458.

In 1479, Éléonore Anger of Navarre, queen of Navarre, which had married Gaston IV of Foix, count de Foix, died, by choosing for its successor his grandson François Phébus; but this one died strong young person, and his sister Catherine de Navarre, by marrying Jean, lord d' Albret, made pass in this house the county of Foix, as well as the crown of Navarre. From this moment, the destinies of this county merge with those of Navarre.

Heliodore Castillon gave the History of the county of Foix , Paris, 1852.

See too

List of the counts de historical Foix
List of the French counties

Armorial bearings

First counts one carried gold with three stakes of mouths .

After the union with the Viscount of Béarn, they quartered weapons of Foix with those of Béarn, which gives: quartered into 1 and 4 of gold to the three stakes of mouths and into 2 and 3d' gold with the two cows of mouths, accornées, colletées and clarinées of azure, passing one on the other

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