Jean de Foix (1450-1500)

Jean de Foix (1450 - 1500 (Stamps) is youngest wire of Gaston IV of Foix and the queen Éléonore I {{Re}} of Navarre. Its elder is the Prince de Viane Gaston de Foix.

Heir to the Viscount of Narbonne by his father, it maintains good relationships with the kings of France Louis XI and Louis XII. He marries the sister of this last, Marie of Orleans in 1476, of which he has two children:

the future German queen of Foix (1488 - 1538), married with the catholic king Ferdinand II of Aragon, and whose ascent related to the royal house of Navarre serves as a pretext for this last to assert the crown of it.
the future duke Gaston de Foix-Nemours (1489 - 1512), who will direct the armies of his uncle Louis XII in Italy.

With died of its nephew François Phébus in 1483, Jean asserts the throne of Navarre as a first male heir, in competation with the sister and heiress of François Phébus, Catherine. Although the Salic law never had course in Navarre, its claims started a civil war in the kingdom of, which finishes by the peace of Tarbes in 1497 with the victory of Catherine and the abandonment of the claims of Jean. Jean de Foix dies three years later.

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