Gaston de Foix, Earl of Kendal and Count of Benauges was a French of high nobility in last decades of Middle Ages. The titles of Earl of Kendal and Duke of Kendal have been created several times, usually for people with some connection to the royal family. ...

He was a cadet member of the important Foix family in Southern France, and a relative of Gaston IV, Count of Foix who was the husband of Eleanor of Aragon who then ascended the royal throne of Navarre.

Gaston succeeded as comte de Benauges in France. He also, as heir of Jean de Foix, Earl of Kendal, continued to claim that English peerage and therefore was styled Comte de Candale. The titles of Earl of Kendal and Duke of Kendal have been created several times, usually for people with some connection to the royal family. ...

He was given Infanta Catherine, the youngest daughter of his prominent kinsman, as wife.

They had a son who succeeded Gaston, and a daughter, Anna of Foix-Candale who married king of Bohemia and Hungary.