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The Count of Foix ruled the County of Foix, in what is now Southern France, during the Middle Ages. The House of Foix eventually extended its power across the Pyrenees mountain range, joining the House of Bearn and moving their court to Pau in Béarn .
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Foix (French pronunciation: ⓘ; Occitan: Fois [ˈfujs, ˈfujʃ]; Catalan: Foix) is a commune, the former capital of the County of Foix. It is the capital of the department of Ariège as it is the seat of the prefecture of that department. Foix is located in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.
The Foix-Béarn family is linked to all the southern families: Majorca, Narbonne, Armagnac and even Aragon. Gaston II's mother, Joan of Artois, was the great-granddaughter of Robert I, Count of Artois, brother of Saint Louis. This French princess brings the prestige of the royal house to Foix-Béarn, but also many worries.
Ursula Germaine of Foix [a] (c. 1488 – 15 October 1536) was an early modern French noblewoman from the House of Foix. By marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, she was Queen of Aragon, Majorca, Naples, Sardinia, Sicily, and Valencia and Princess of Catalonia from 1505 to 1516 and Queen of Navarre from 1512 to 1516.
Foix, feudal county of southwestern France, corresponding approximately to the modern département of Ariège, in the Midi-Pyrénées région. Between the 11th and the 15th century, the counts of Foix built up a quasi-independent power bounded by Languedoc on the north and on the east, by the.
