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He was active in the defence and subsequent recovery of the city of Bordeaux. Then on 17 July 1453 he and John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury, fought the French forces at the Battle of Castillon. Talbot and a son were killed and Jean de Foix was taken prisoner.
The third creation was for Jean de Foix, vicomte de Castillon, who was created Earl of Kendal in 1446. He gave allegiance to the King of France in 1462, and is thereby presumed to have forfeited his English peerage.
The survivors of the clash as well as the remnant of the Anglo-Gascon force which had not been thrown into the battle, totalling up to 5,000 men, including John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal, sought refuge in the castle of Castillon.
25 mar 2016 · John de Foix or Jean de Foix-Candale (born after 1410 - Castelnau-de-Médoc, 1485), was Captal de Buch, first Earl of Kendal (Gallicised into "Comte de Candalle"), Viscount of Castillon and Meilles and Count of Benauges. He relinquished the Kendal earldom when he chose French nationality.
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19 ott 2014 · Our John, depicted here in an eighteenth century engraving, was the second son of John Beaufort, First Earl of Somerset. He became the third earl when his brother, Henry, died in 1418 – somewhat bizarrely making him Earl and Duke of Somerset. Beaufort fought in Henry V’s army in France.
11 dic 2022 · Children with her husband, John de Foix, 1st Earl of Kendal: -Gaston de Foix, Count of Candale (ca. 1448-1500), 1st wife Infanta Catherine of Navarre (ca. 1455 – before 1494), issue, including Anna of Foix-Candale queen of Hungary, 2nd wife Isabel of Albret, the daughter of Alain I of Albret (d. ca. 1530), other children.
Gaston de Foix, (died 1500) Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges was a French of high nobility in last decades of 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. His paternal grandfather Gaston de Foix, Captal de Buch was created a Knight of the Garter in 1438.
